[hobbit] out-of-inodes hobbit conn error for all 300 systems

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:43:31AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:11:18PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I am running solaris 9. My hobbit is running off of /export/home/hobbit
> > dir. The `df -i` shows
> > /dev/md/dsk/d30      1005696 1005005     691  100% /export/home
> [snip]
> > Either I think of using these resources, like may be creating some RAM
> > disks (Henrik had a tip on that, cant find it) or get rid of `hist'
> > folder which has about 4000 files in it. I really like to keep the
> > `hist' files for report and going back to check for old events.
> 
> Keep the "hist" folder - there's only one file per status you have in
> Hobbit, and there won't be more.
> 
> What you should have a look at is the "histlogs" folder. This holds a
> copy of each status log whenever a status change occurred - and it gets
> *really* large over time. These historical status logs are only used
> when you look at the history of a status, and click on the red button
> off the "Jun 16 2003 14:21:58" event to see the detailed status log.
> 
> What I do on my production systems is to archive the history logs once
> a month, and then deleting those history logs that are older than 3 
> months. So you can get the full, detailed status of any event that
> happened within the past 3 months; if you need to go further back than
> that, it is still visible in the history view, but you'll need to
> extract the detailed status log from the tar file to see all of the
> details.
> 
> Feel free to use this snippet from my monthly cron job - it requires
> the GNU date utility. Right now, you will of course need to clean up
> your histlogs directory by hand, the snippet below only processes
> the histlog-files one month at a time.
> 
> 
> cd /var/lib/hobbit/data
> 
> # Archive histlogs generated in the past month
> FNPATTERN=`date --date="today -1 month" +"???_%b_*_%Y"`
> ARCFN=`date --date="today -1 month" +"histlogs_%Y_%m.cpio.gz"`
> find histlogs -name "$FNPATTERN" | cpio -o --format=newc | gzip >archive/$ARCFN

My manager wants to see some old data for one of the host. What is the
best way to restore it? I tried to restore one of the archive file and
it does not expand the same way as active histlogs dir and hence finding
data about a host seems difficult.

Any suggestion on this?

Thanks

> 
> # Delete histlogs from 4 months ago (so we always have the last 3 months online)
> FNPATTERN=`date --date="today -4 months" +"???_%b_*_%Y"`
> find histlogs -name "$FNPATTERN" | xargs rm
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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