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Michael_Payne's avatar
Michael_Payne
7 years ago

Support for chrony

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a free time synchronization service at re:Invent today.  The announcement is at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/. Interestingly they recommend that people uninstall NTP and install chrony instead. I tried this on a local Linux host and LM and get the following error:

Alert Message:
LMD2375 warn - 127.0.0.1 NTP ntpqNotFound 
ID: LMD2375
The ntpq binary was not found on the agent monitoring 127.0.0.1.
Please install the ntpq binary (typically by yum install ntp, or apt-get install ntp)

If LM customers running in AWS follow the recommendation their NTP monitoring will fail. Could / will LM support chrony in addition to ntpq?

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  • Matt_Gauthier's avatar
    Matt_Gauthier
    7 years ago

    We recently ran into this, our new rhel servers that are utilizing chronyd don't respond to ntpq - any idea of when this might make it into the repository?

  • Logan's avatar
    Logan
    7 years ago
    On 05/12/2017 at 5:22 AM, Steve Francis said:

    Yeah - looks like it's simple enough.

    https://karloluiten.nl/chrony-status-command-ntpq-p-alternative/

    We'll change the script to look for chrony as well as ntpq

     

    Is this going anywhere?

    We've recently raised a feature request for this (#99148) and LogicMonitor acknowledged this is simple enough back in 2017 yet no update whatsoever.

  • Jesse_Iniguez's avatar
    Jesse_Iniguez
    6 years ago

    I too am interested in the progress of this request as I submitted request 126119 where support stated that the check chronyd-enabled time sync check should be released, "in weeks"; this was back in December of 2019. Meanwhile, I have many warning alerts for NTP checks on AWS Linux-based VMs.