PM upgrade from 6 to 7 chrony or systemd-timesyncd

[mailinglists]

I monitor all services listed in PVE HTTP GUI under System:


After upgrade from 6 to 7 i got notifications about chrony not running. I installed chrony (replaced systemd-timesyncd) but now systemd-timesyncd failure is triggering monitoring system. As both can not run at the same time, I wonder how can I make PM monitor / list just one of these two services and have no disabled, stopped or other non running services listed here, to make my monitoring system happy again.

 

[mailinglists]

Any1?
@dietmar @tom @dcsapak @fabian @wolfgang @Stoiko Ivanov

 

[fabian]

a disabled and masked service should probably not trigger your monitoring.. we intentionally have both there, since upgraded but not yet switched systems will have the reverse situation (timesyncd running, chrony missing)

 

[mailinglists]

So can i just remove sytemd-timesynced form the system and it will dissapear here as well?

 

[fabian]

no. the list is hard-coded - a service that is explicitly disabled/masked is not something that should trip up your monitoring.

 

[mailinglists]

It did not help, it is still listed there.
Maybe if remove systemd timed unit file as well?

 

[mailinglists]

I guess I will have to fix the script so that it does not check all services.

Till now if a service was listed in PVE, it was supposed to be running. But not anymore, so I guess this has to be changed:
"
def services
return unless @options[:mode] == 'services'
http_connect(path: "api2/json/nodes/#{@options[:node]}/services")
services_down = JSON.parse(@response.body)['data'].reject { |item| item['state'] == 'running' }
exclude(data: services_down, value: 'name') unless @options[:exclude].to_s.empty?
warn_msg(services_down.map { |item| item['name'].to_s }.join(', ') << ' not running') if services_down.any?
ok_msg('All services running')
end
"

Thank you and have a nice weekend.

 

[Darius koissi]

no. the list is hard-coded - a service that is explicitly disabled/masked is not something that should trip up your monitoring.

I want to use proxmox's Chrony service to act as an NTP server for my domain.

is it doable and logical?

Thanks for your feedback. I had forgotten to specify that it is a cluster of 9 servers. in this case should I activate the chrony service on the 9 servers? will there be an impact on the internal synchronization of the cluster?

 

[fabian]

the cluster only cares about the time being in sync, not how that happens so yes, you can switch all nodes to chrony instead of systemd-timesyncd