Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – finding orphaned RRD files

1. Logon to your Cacti system.
2. Change to the rra directory of your Cacti installation:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/rra
   

3. List the directory content:

   ls –l
   

   
4. Keep a note of the RRDs listed as shown in the preceding screenshot.
5. Login to your Cacti web interface as an admin user.
6. Go to Management | Data Sources to list all the data sources:
   
7. You can now compare the list of data sources with the RRD files listed on the command line. In the example shown, the RRD file named heute_de_ping_8.rrd does not exist in the web interface ...