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On 2018-03-22 15:07:58, ron@rjr-services.com <ron@rjr-services.com> wrote:

I can verify that changing the script to ntpq on my side worked fine.
Here's the svn diff:

root@observium:/opt/observium# svn diff
Index: scripts/agent-local/ntpd
===================================================================
--- scripts/agent-local/ntpd (revision 9109)
+++ scripts/agent-local/ntpd (working copy)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
// START SETTINGS ///

$ntpq = "ntpq";
- $ntpdc = "ntpdc";
+ $ntpdc = "ntpq";

// END SETTINGS ///

@@ -85,4 +85,4 @@

doUnixAgent($vars, $vars2);

-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
root@observium:/opt/observium#

...Ron

On 2018-03-22 04:10, Adam Armstrong wrote:
> Seems like we should just switch to ntpq as default then!
>
> Adam.
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> On 22 Mar 2018, at 06:01, Adrian Murphy wrote:
>
>>> On 22 Mar 2018, at 4:01 pm, Adam Armstrong
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not at all familiar with NTP, so I'm not sure what the
>>> difference between these two tools is, or why one wouldn't work :)
>>>
>>> Does anyone else know?
>>
>> ntpdc is deprecated. It has probably been removed one installations
>> of ntpd.
>>
>> https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpdc.html [1]
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> adam.
>>
>> Adam Armstrong
>> Managing Director & Lead Architect
>> Observium Limited
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>> On 2018-03-19 17:55:39, Ron Marosko wrote:
>>
>> Howdy Adam, et. al.,
>>
>> I’ve run into an issue with the agent ntpd script on certain of
>> my servers where the command “ntpdc -c iostats” times out with
>> no response. However, the equivalent command used with ntpq works
>> fine and provides the correct information Witness:
>>
>> root@observium:/opt/observium# ntpdc -c iostats
>>
>> localhost: timed out, nothing received
>>
>> ***Request timed out
>>
>> root@observium:/opt/observium# ntpq -c iostats
>>
>> time since reset: 1116387
>>
>> receive buffers: 10
>>
>> free receive buffers: 9
>>
>> used receive buffers: 0
>>
>> low water refills: 1
>>
>> dropped packets: 0
>>
>> ignored packets: 0
>>
>> received packets: 140116
>>
>> packets sent: 145459
>>
>> packet send failures: 0
>>
>> input wakeups: 140118
>>
>> useful input wakeups: 140118
>>
>> root@observium:/opt/observium#
>>
>> Yes, that is actually on the VM running observium.
>>
>> For simplicity of minimum changes to the script, I made the
>> following change:
>>
>> // START SETTINGS ///
>>
>> $ntpq = "ntpq";
>>
>> $ntpdc = "ntpq";
>>
>> // END SETTINGS ///
>>
>> End result is this:
>>
>> You can see where I made the change to the script yesterday
>> afternoon.
>>
>> The related version of ntpd is: ntpd - NTP daemon program - Ver.
>> 4.2.8p4
>>
>> I don’t know if you want to push this out as a change overall,
>> but wanted to make you aware of this so that it’s documented
>> somewhere at least.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ron
>>
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