[Xymon] old unwanted rrd files

David Baldwin david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au
Wed Apr 18 01:56:14 CEST 2012


Michael,
> I have a bunch of old rrd files taking up space that are no longer needed
> Will I get myself in trouble if I delete them?
> Is there a better way to clean them up?
>
> The specific files in question are ifstat files with bogus data that
> were created due to a bbwin client bug on windows 2008 servers
I have a cron job that cleans up these bogus files on an ongoing basis.
Helps keeps the trends graphs moderately sensible too...

Worth checking last modified time - for example "disk" test will acquire
RRDs for mounted disk images on some MacOSX too.

David.

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David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks)
Information and Communication Technology Services
Australian Sports Commission          http://ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617


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