Cacti

Hmmmm ... hadn't thought of environments outside of Linux. Maybe, if at all, the change should be general guidance concerning what might change and how to dump the RRD files so they can be imported into any RRD environment? /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/my.cnf /etc...

http://cactiusers.org/wiki/PluginArchitectureInstall

For me it was as easy as extracting the tarball and then overwriting the files in the existing Cacti installation directory.

You know what they say about bellybuttons and opinions? Everybody has one; some stink more than others ... What do you think about updating the documentation with regards to Cacti upgrading and/or backups with: currentDatetime=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` backupDir=/var/backups mysqldump -l --add-drop-table c...

ROCK ON! THAT PROCESS WORKED!

I'm going to modify my backup to make it export the RRD data into XML. Then it will be portable no matter the destination.

Does this sound reasonable? So we need to export the files to xml and then reimport them: rrdtool dump filename.rrd > filename.xml rrdtool restore filename.xml > filename.rrd But if you’ve got dozens, hundreds or even thousands of RRD files, doing them one by one is going to get tired, very quickl...

RRDTool Command: /usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \ --imgformat=PNG \ --start=-86400 \ --end=-300 \ --title='Build03 (RHEL 4) (vm02) - CPU Utilization - CPU0' \ --rigid \ --base=1000 \ --height=120 \ --width=500 \ --upper-limit='100' \ --lower-limit='0' \ --vertical-label='percent' \ --slope-mode \ --font ...

I checked my RRD Tool version. It's 1.2 and my Cacti is setup for 1.2.

The RRD files do exist in /var/www/html/cacti/rra but they're not being updated. I'm guessing it's going to be a permissions issue.

They are cacti:root at present. Still digging ... thanks for the reply.

I'm working through moving Cacti from a sandbox environment to a production environment. I'm chronicling the effort here: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=39367 In addition I applied the permissions listed in the documentation under the "upgrading cacti" section. I can login and my ...

So, I thought I was done. I double checked everything but when I opened my browser with http://server/cacti all I got was a blank screen. I looked at the directory permissions and some needed changed. I'll highlight that in another post. Corrected all that stuff and still nothing. I looked at the ot...

After extracting my "config" backup I executed the following from my home directory: sudo cp -r etc / sudo cp -r var / Now we have Cacti, the Plugin Architecture and Spine + all our config and RRD files restored. This is how I finished the installation: mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSW...

Now I'm getting into the meat and potatoes. With the files from my backup in my new home directory I executed the following: tar xfv cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz sudo mkdir /var/www/html/cacti cd cacti-0.8.7g sudo mv * /var/www/html/cacti/ cd ~ tar xfv cacti-plugin-0.8.7g-PA-v2.8.tar.gz cd cacti-plugin-arch/...

I am adding /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to the backup routine as that was an oversight. I did not add /etc/my.cnf because I had not changed it, nor was I instructed to do so during the installation process. I will, however, add it to my backup if it's a likely candidate for modification. Thanks for the tips!

I should have noted that on my fresh RHEL 5.5 installation I had to add the EPEL repository to gain access to the rrdtool package: sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm After installing http, mysql and snmp I executed these statements: sudo /sbin...

Thanks for the tip!

If you're using the default snmpd.conf you will get no results from SNMP. It requires some edits.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... snmpd.conf