Huge log files

[santoshkotla]

Hi Team,

I have log files that are FULL of these messages and I don't know where to go and correct this. Can you please help me get rid of these messages?

2021-11-10 01:40:01 - SYSTEM WARNING: Primary Admin account notifications disabled! Unable to send administrative Email.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531313] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.59' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531317] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.6' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531319] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.60' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531331] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.61' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531321] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.62' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531323] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.64' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531325] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.63' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531327] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.65' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531329] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.66' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531315] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.67' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531313] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.68' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531317] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.69' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531319] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.7' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531331] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.70' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531321] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.71' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531323] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.72' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531325] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.73' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531327] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.74' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531329] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.75' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531315] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.76' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531313] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.77' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531317] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.78' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531321] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.80' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531331] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.8' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531319] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.79' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531325] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.82' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531323] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.81' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531327] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.83' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531329] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.84' is not a valid IP address.

Also, can I delete the old log files that are huge in size with similar messages as above? I think this could be stopping my graphs abruptly in between.

drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4.0K Nov 11 08:01 .
drwxrwxr-x 18 www-data www-data 4.0K Nov 5 06:18 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 70M Nov 12 05:28 cacti.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 52K Nov 5 07:00 cacti.log-20211104
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 190M Nov 6 07:00 cacti.log-20211105
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 96M Nov 7 07:01 cacti.log-20211106
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 208M Nov 8 08:01 cacti.log-20211107
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 98M Nov 9 08:01 cacti.log-20211108
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 216M Nov 10 08:01 cacti.log-20211109
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 97M Nov 11 08:01 cacti.log-20211110
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Nov 11 08:01 cacti_stderr.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 21 Nov 5 05:55 cacti_stderr.log-20211104
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Nov 5 07:00 cacti_stderr.log-20211105
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 6.5K Nov 7 05:16 cacti_stderr.log-20211106
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 8.6K Nov 7 23:01 cacti_stderr.log-20211107
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 6.3K Nov 9 07:41 cacti_stderr.log-20211108
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 13K Nov 10 07:46 cacti_stderr.log-20211109
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 9.3K Nov 10 21:31 cacti_stderr.log-20211110
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 425 Oct 29 18:09 .htaccess
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 40 Oct 29 18:09 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 97 Nov 5 06:18 install-automation.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 14K Nov 5 06:18 install-complete.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 11K Nov 5 06:18 install-general.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 90 Nov 5 06:18 install-sync.log

Thanks,
Santosh Kotla

[santoshkotla]

I am new to Cacti and this is the first time I have deployed it on a Ubuntu 20.04 and configured a weathermap plugin for the same.

I have disabled the test scan that I had configured in Automation and the Log files continue to generate. Also, the logs don't make a lot of sense so I am not sure if this is a bug.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in Advance!!!

Santosh Kotla

[camerabob]

Open your console, manage devices. Sort by host name and look to see if fat fingers configured a device with that errant "IP" address. If so, fix it. Alternatively, you can just paste that address in the search area.

[santoshkotla]

Hi @camerabob,

I have 73 devices that I manually added to my instance and none of them are errored. This is what I have coming up on the log now:

2021-11-12 10:17:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783446] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.84' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783436] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.81' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783442] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.82' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783432] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.83' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783430] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.8' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783440] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.80' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783438] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.79' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783434] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.78' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783448] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.77' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783444] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.76' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:02 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783446] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.75' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783432] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.74' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783442] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.73' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783436] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.72' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783440] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.70' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783430] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.71' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783438] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.7' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783434] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.68' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783448] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.69' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783444] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.67' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:01 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783446] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.66' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:00 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783432] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.65' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:00 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783442] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.64' is not a valid IP address.
2021-11-12 10:17:00 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783436] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.61' is not a valid IP address.

I have nothing configured in the automation TAB as well..

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks,
Santosh Kotla

[camerabob]

I just noticed that these are automate issues. Try disabling that, or check the settings there to see if possibly something was entered incorrectly. I don't use it myself, so this is the end of my knowledge.

2021-11-10 01:40:03 - AUTOM8 [PID: 531329] WARNING: IP address '10.129.32967.84' is not a valid IP address.
Perhaps "10.129.32967.x" was supposed to be "10.129.32.67.x" ??? (Yeah, that doesn't makes sense...)
2021-11-12 10:17:00 - AUTOM8 [PID: 783436] WARNING: IP address '10.124.31678.61' is not a valid IP address.
Perhaps "10.124.31678.x" was supposed to be "10.124.31.78.x" ??? (Yeah, that doesn't makes sense...)

You mentioned Automate tab. Automate is a console entry on the 1.x branch. What version of Cacti are you currently running?

[santoshkotla]

Hi,

I am running the 1.2.19 version as of now. I hit the machine for a reboot and then the log messages stopped coming. Not sure what stopped them...

Thanks,
Santosh Kotla

[camerabob]

OK. Weird, but whatever. You're good to go.

[netniV]

Sounds like a bad IP range was put into the automation network, but then it was possible corrected but not before automation ran and continued to do so with the bad range. All speculation.

But the logs are definitely down to a bad range being used.