RRDs created in wrong directory

supine · Post by **supine** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:44 am

Trying to figure out an issue with an existing Cacti installation.

Linux, version 0.8.6j

Cacti is installed in /usr/local/cacti

Existing hosts / graphs update fine.

When I add a new host and add graphs the RRD's are created in /var/lib/cacti and not /usr/local/cacti/rra ?!?

"Graph Management" shows the correct location. I can't find anywhere in the code that's not using rra_path.

Any other ideas?

tapke · Post by **tapke** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:16 am

I had the same problem. Just added links to the directories.
Not a solution, but as a workaround worked fine.

supine · Post by **supine** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:40 am

tapke wrote:I had the same problem. Just added links to the directories.
Not a solution, but as a workaround worked fine.

Yeah, I've resorted to blowing away the errant directory and symlinking it to the correct place.

The poller was quite happily reporting updating non-existent RRDs without displaying any error.

Post by **gandalf** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:24 am

It will report the errors if you remove the "> /dev/null" by e.g. "> /your/cacti/path/log/poller.log" in crontab
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supine · Post by **supine** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:00 am

gandalf wrote:It will report the errors if you remove the "> /dev/null" by e.g. "> /your/cacti/path/log/poller.log" in crontab
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So it quite happily reports creating them in the wrong spot and then updating them in the right spot. WTF

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12/22/2009 01:55:12 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] CACTI2RRD: /usr/bin/rrdtool create /var/lib/cacti/swext_traffic_in_1484.rrd --step 300   DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:100000000  DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600
:0:100000000  RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600  RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700  RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775  RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797  RRA:MIN:0.5:1:600  RRA:MIN:0.5:6:700  RRA:MIN:0.5:24:775  RRA:MIN:0.5:288:797  RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600  
RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700  RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775  RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797  RRA:LAST:0.5:1:600  RRA:LAST:0.5:6:700  RRA:LAST:0.5:24:775  RRA:LAST:0.5:288:797

12/22/2009 01:55:12 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] CACTI2RRD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/local/cacti/rra/swext_traffic_in_1484.rrd --template traffic_out:traffic_in N:1008808796:3420880488

Post by **gandalf** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:11 am

rrdtool works this way, sorry
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supine · Post by **supine** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:25 am

gandalf wrote:rrdtool works this way, sorry
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Say what?

You're saying that the use of the wrong directory "/var/lib/cacti/" for RRD creation is rrdtool's fault?

Post by **gandalf** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:15 am

supine wrote:
gandalf wrote:rrdtool works this way, sorry
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Say what?

You're saying that the use of the wrong directory "/var/lib/cacti/" for RRD creation is rrdtool's fault?

No, no. I referred to the way output is written to stdout or stderr; that's all
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