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 <amurphy@gsoft.com.au> wrote:


On 22 Mar 2018, at 4:01 pm, Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org> 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

Adrian


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On 2018-03-19 17:55:39, Ron Marosko <ron@rjr-services.com> 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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