A short overview of the Cacti CLI functionality
As you've
learned in previous chapters, Cacti comes with several CLI scripts suitable for some of Cacti's maintenance tasks. The CLI scripts can be found in the cli directory of the base Cacti installation.
The cli directory contains two repair scripts which you may want to use in case of database corruption or template errors, and if you do not want to lose all the configuration data since your last backup.
Repairing templates
It may happen that some of the data or graph templates have errors. You can then try to repair these templates by using the repair_templates.php script. Issue
the following command to check for errors. Using the –execute parameter will help fix any errors shown:
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