Patch: "Structured RRD Path"

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:55 pm

Are you running in windows? Can you do a gotomeeting?

gundalba · Post by **gundalba** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:16 pm

Thanks for the offer but my Cacti is on CentOS5...
Not sure if gotomeeting works either as I'm kinda new here and haven't tried it yet.

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:01 pm

If the files were moved, you should be able to copy the php file and modify the new file to "update_database();exit;"

TheWitness

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:03 pm

Don't forget to disable cron and verify the poller is not running.

TheWitness

gundalba · Post by **gundalba** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:01 pm

TheWitness wrote:If the files were moved, you should be able to copy the php file and modify the new file to "update_database();exit;"

TheWitness

Got the poller / cron part but not too sure on copying php file and modifying it.
Could you please elaborate further?

Thanks,

Post by **TheWitness** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:01 pm

In the cli folder, there is a utility that converts your system to use structured paths. If you have run that program, as you said, and it did not work, you have to copy it to a new name and strip it down so that it just updates the database.

TheWitness

frdrk · Post by **frdrk** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:48 am

I copied my production cacti to a similar machine for a dry-run update to 0.8.7e and tried the structured path thingy, and it kinda worked. Some rrd's where left untouched by the script.. rrd's not moved and DS path in web gui still points to the old file, which does exist.. but the graphs for those dont update.

When I run the structure_rra_paths.php again I get this:

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NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1981/64651.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1981/64652.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1981/64653.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1981/64654.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1981/64655.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64656.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64657.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64658.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64659.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64660.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64661.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64662.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: File '/var/www/cacti/rra/1944/64663.rrd' is Already Structured, Ignoring
NOTE: Process Complete, '0' Completed, '0' Skipped, '36095' Previously Structured

Allthough there are still rrd's left unmoved

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cactilab:/var/www/cacti/rra# ls -alF | grep .rrd | wc -l
2973

Any ideas?

edit: after a closer look, it seem as it have left all my broadcast and multicast rrds untouched.

Post by **TheWitness** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:01 am

So, some moved and some did not. It may be that the ones left behind were either damaged (aka don't update), or some other reason. Do they still exist as required in the Poller Cache? What is the entry for them there? How do they appear when you look under Data Sources? What about Graph Management? Have you used "RRDClean" before?

TheWitness

frdrk · Post by **frdrk** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:30 am

TheWitness wrote:So, some moved and some did not. It may be that the ones left behind were either damaged (aka don't update), or some other reason. Do they still exist as required in the Poller Cache? What is the entry for them there?

No, they do not exist in the Poller Cache. On my main machine (the one i mirrored) there are about 6000 entries about multicast and broadcast in the poller cache, none on the mirrored machine after structured path patch. Tried rebuilding it, nothing.

TheWitness wrote:How do they appear when you look under Data Sources? What about Graph Management? Have you used "RRDClean" before?
TheWitness

Nothing looks strange under graph management or data sources, accept that the Data Souce Path points at the old "<path_rra>/xxxxxxxx_broadcast_out_57170.rrd", which do still exist and wasnt touched by the structured path patch.

I have used rrdclean before, if I do a rescan now no graphs are beeing chosen for removal accept the ones I have actually deleted myself.

Post by **TheWitness** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:48 am

You might be missing the XML file in the resource directory. Goto one of the hosts and perform a "Verbose Query" and see what comes up.

TheWitness

frdrk · Post by **frdrk** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:09 pm

TheWitness wrote:You might be missing the XML file in the resource directory. Goto one of the hosts and perform a "Verbose Query" and see what comes up.

TheWitness

AH! Ofcourse... the broadcast and multicast templates isnt in cacti default, I totally forgot about that. Imported them, and now it looks much better.

NOTE: Process Complete, '2945' Completed, '0' Skipped, '36092' Previously Structured

Thanks :]

Patch: "Structured RRD Path"

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