How to get the status of ntp daemon or other daemons

[Jayson-L]

By typing the command "tmsh show sys service" or "tmsh show sys service ntpd", we can see the status of ntpd daemon. What functions should I used in this SDK to get the status of ntpd daemon? How to get the status of ntp daemon or other daemons?

[jasonrahm]

Doesn't look like we have a native sdk support for that functionality. I was looking at the source and some design decisions around top level objects for named and unnamed resources would take quite a bit of refactoring to support that and we're in maintenance mode on this library now that F5 is now primarily focusing on the declarative models presented with DO/AS3/TS.

As a workaround, you can use the sdk bash utility to do so. This isn't that problematic for this instance in particular, as even the json data returned by the /tm/sys/service/ntpd/stats endpoint is just a long text string in the apiAnonymous attribute similar to what you'll receive from bash query.

>>> ntpd_status = b.tm.util.bash.exec_cmd('run', utilCmdArgs='-c "tmsh show sys service ntpd"')
>>> from pprint import pprint as pp
>>> pp(ntpd_status.commandResult)
('* ntpd.service - LSB: start and stop ntpd\n'
 '   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd; bad; vendor preset: disabled)\n'
 '   Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-09-10 18:04:16 CDT; 3 weeks 5 '
 'days ago\n'
 '     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)\n'
 '  Process: 4955 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd start (code=exited, '
 'status=0/SUCCESS)\n'
 '   CGroup: /system.slice/ntpd.service\n'
 '           `-4973 ntpd -g\n'
 '\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 28 lo:1 '
 '127.2.0.2 UDP 123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 29 lo ::1 UDP '
 '123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 30 mgmt '
 'fe80::20c:29ff:fe21:ad39 UDP 123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 31 eth0 '
 'fe80::20c:29ff:fe21:ad39 UDP 123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: new interface(s) found: waking '
 'up resolver\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:05 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: 0.0.0.0 0528 08 no_sys_peer\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:08 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 32 mgmt '
 '10.0.2.15 UDP 123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:23:08 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: new interface(s) found: waking '
 'up resolver\n'
 'Oct 07 14:24:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: Listen normally on 33 eth3 '
 'fe80::20c:29ff:fe21:ad57 UDP 123\n'
 'Oct 07 14:24:04 ltm3.test.local ntpd[4973]: new interface(s) found: waking '
 'up resolver\n')