Agent keeps going inactive / disconnecting

[mshafrin]

Yeah, I see that... it is 6:17pm here (as of my writing this reply).

Should I also open TCP 123? Or does the agent only look on the UDP 123 port for time sync?

[SBK]

NTP is just UDP 123
It is quite weird ...

[mshafrin]

Definitely an example of "Murphy's Law"..... if something is going to go wrong or be difficult, it's going to be on my network LOL.

I have no issues with ping or tracert to ntp.org. I'm open to suggestions lol.

[SBK]

LOL :-):-)
Any chance I can access to that agent directly using ssh ?

[mshafrin]

That is ok with me... how would you normally do that? I can let you connect into my workstation with Anydesk or whatever support tool you use, and you can ssh in with putty or whatever from there.

[SBK]

Can you allow this IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to access only that agent ?

[mshafrin]

I am a bit limited at to what I can do right now... I am not at work... I am remote connected to my work pc. That's why I figured it may be easier for you to just do an AnyDesk session to my workstation.

[SBK]

Sure, just share your AnyDesk ID here
After I connect I will remove that info from this forum

[mshafrin]

Not sure if you finished with the install.... I think connection was lost. Let me know if you need to reconnect

[SBK]

I have requested a remote reboot of your agent to see if it keeps the NTP configuration but it didnt come back nd also i noticed an outage when I lost the connection
I am still waiting the agent to come back online
I am not 100% sure of what caused it yet, so please if it happens again let us know.

[mshafrin]

I can't reconnect either.... lost my remote session as well

[SBK]

So definitely an inactive or an outage is happening where the agent is
Will wait to see the agent coming back online

[SBK]

Unfortunately since I requested the reboot if there is an outage we cannot have the report of that but I see that the previous one (when I was logged in) was recorded

[mshafrin]

ok, my connection is back... if you need to reconect you can now

[OutagesIO_Support]

We've been working on a solution and testing it overnight.
If the test continues to be positive, we'll send it out to your agent today some time.
Assuming all goes well, a mass update will be sent out to all hardware agents.

BTW, I think we need to add some form of private messaging on this forum so that personal information can be exchanged privately during troubleshooting.

[mshafrin]

Thank you again for the time and help in troubleshooting and resolving this issue. You and your support / dev team are the best!! Let me know if I need to do anything on my end to apply the update when it’s available.

Yeah, a private chat would definitely be a good idea lol!

[OutagesIO_Support]

The beauty of the hardware agents is that they are self updating. No need to run updates like you would on a Windows machine.

All we ask for is that you mention our service to as many as possible that could use it. Word of mouth, and a Google review, are the things we count on more than advertising.

We also have a pro level service, www.mspsensors.com for organizations that wish to monitor 10+ locations. That includes some additional tools such as an overview map showing any/all locations experiencing problems (correlating), remote access without opening firewall ports and other features.

[SBK]

@mshafrin
I can confirm that now the agent is behaving correctly.

Hops came in with the correct date and time and also pings.

Will continue to check randomly in the next hours if the behavior is stable: if so will propagate this change to all other HW agents to avoid that specific condition.

[mshafrin]

Thank you!!! All reported times (pings, hops, etc) seem to be spot-on here. You guys are the absolute best!!