Why do we have the "NTP offset is over Critical threshold" alarm in RHEL 6.0 ?

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Issue

  • Receiving critical alarms NTP offset is over Critical threshold.
  • Receiving critical alarms Stratum over critical threshold.
  • ntp client is in sync with the server, still receiving the Stratum over critical threshold alarms and NTP offset is over Critical threshold.
  • HP OM Monitoring Tool is giving alarm for NTP offset is over Critical threshold.
  • HP OM Monitoring Tool is giving alarm for Stratum over critical threshold.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • NTP
  • HP OM Monitoring Tool (HP Operations Manager Monitoring Tool)

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