Verify if NTP is enabled in expert mode?

[Danny]

In Gaia expert mode, is it possible to check if NTP is enabled without running clish -c "show ntp active"?
This is to avoid any possible config lock errors. I'd prefer something like a quick grep check, if possible.

Current command:
[Expert@firewall:0]# clish -c "show ntp active"
Output:
CLINFR0771 Config lock is owned by admin. Use the command 'lock database override' to acquire the lock.
1_01:
No

[Bob_Zimmerman · Accepted solution]

'ntpq -p' shows the current status of ntpd, but it doesn't return a useful exit code when ntpd isn't running. The simplest way to check is probably to see if ntpd is running. 'ps -C ntpd' exits with code 0 if it finds at least one matching process, or code 1 if there aren't any matches.

[Expert@DallasSC]# clish -c "show ntp active"           
No
[Expert@DallasSC]# ntpq -p
ntpq: read: Connection refused
[Expert@DallasSC]# echo $?
0
[Expert@DallasSC]# ps -C ntpd
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
[Expert@DallasSC]# echo $?
1

[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# clish -c "show ntp active"
Yes
[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*10.0.1.1        132.163.96.2     2 u  654 1024  377    0.966    0.517   0.830
[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# echo $?
0
[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# ps -C ntpd
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
18573 ?        00:00:00 ntpd
[Expert@DallasticXL-s01-01:0]# echo $?
0

[Danny]

Thanks for your efforts.
After some additional checks on my side, I'm going with pidof ntpd &>/dev/null; echo $?

[the_rock]

Just tried it in R81.20 and R82, worked fine.

Andy

[Expert@CP-GW:0]# clish -c "show ntp active"
No
[Expert@CP-GW:0]#