RRD files are too big

The code that creates the RRD files is:

    setupfn2("%s.%s.rrd", "ifstat", ifname);

So the format is "ifstat.<ifname>.rrd".

The weird numbers and names are what Xymon thinks are interface names
(ifname). Xymon gets the interface names from the [ifstat] section of the
client message. I suspect the parsing code for the OS you are using is not
compatible with the format that is in the [ifstat] section. If you can
provide the [ifstat] section of client message, and the OS or class
specification (typically found at the top of the client message), I might
be able to be more specific.

If you've changed a host from Solaris to Linux, but still have the OS
defined as Solaris (or CLASS set in hosts.cfg), the wrong match expression
will be applied (for a different OS), and you may get this effect.

Until you find a fix, a work-around might be to specify INTERFACES:eth\d+
(or whatever regular expression matches your interface names) in hosts.cfg.


On 29 March 2018 at 05:54, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I'm betting that you are correct that these are your interface names on
that server.  Running 'ifconfig -a' might help better identify what you're
seeing,  If they are virtual devices, they may be coming and going in such
a way that Xymon sees them, and adds them but they are named something else
the next run since I would expect the timestamps to be the same if they
were all active.

=G=

From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Mills,David (HHSC
Contractor) <user-7037272ac73f@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:28 PM
To: Shawn Heisey; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] RRD files are too big

EXTERNAL

Thx, Shawn...

I agree that the naming suggests some unique connection info like an IP,
but I don’t see any of our IPs embedded into those names. The snippet I
offered earlier was from a Windows box. The following is an example from
one of our Solaris 11 hosts. Note that the RRD files with "net<digit>"
correspond to iface names  net0, ... In the example that follows, the
"vnetldc" probably refers to a virtual network interface tag since this
host is part of a Solaris LDOM. The trailing hex digits probably have the
same identifying function as the four dotted numbers in my original
example, though I still don't know what they mean:

-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:12 ifstat.net0.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.net1.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.net2.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.net3.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:16 ifstat.net4.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:47 ifstat.phys.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:02 ifstat.vnetldc0x10.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:52 ifstat.vnetldc0x11.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 12:02 ifstat.vnetldc0x12.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:42 ifstat.vnetldc0x13.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.vnetldc0x14.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.vnetldc0x15.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:02 ifstat.vnetldc0x2.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 12:02 ifstat.vnetldc0x39.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 12:17 ifstat.vnetldc0x3a.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 12:07 ifstat.vnetldc0x3b.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:32 ifstat.vnetldc0x3c.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:32 ifstat.vnetldc0x3d.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 10:12 ifstat.vnetldc0x3e.rrd
-rw-r--r--    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar 28 11:52 ifstat.vnetldc0x3f.rrd


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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Heisey
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 11:03 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] RRD files are too big

On 3/28/2018 9:12 AM, Mills,David (HHSC Contractor) wrote:

On a related note, I see lots (sometimes dozens, depending on the
client) of RRD files with names “ifstat.#.#.#.#.rrd”, where the ‘#’
are numbers, like this sampling:

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  6 20:07 ifstat.47.147.0.12.rrd

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  6 20:12 ifstat.108.0.121.0.rrd

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  7 02:53 ifstat.73.68.58.9.rrd

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  7 09:23 ifstat.0.1.0.128.rrd

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  7 09:23 ifstat.0.116.111.32.rrd

-rw-r-----    1 xymon xymon 423K Mar  7 09:23
ifstat.101.115.115.32.rrd

Looks like the filenames are generated from information sent by the xymon
client running on the host.  I see files with interface names on my Xymon
server. These are from a client running on a SPARC Solaris system:

rrd/sahara/ifstat.bge1.rrd
rrd/sahara/ifstat.bge3.rrd
rrd/sahara/ifstat.bge2.rrd
rrd/sahara/ifstat.bge0.rrd

I'm running 4.3.23, RPM package built from source.  These ifstat files are
38K in size.

I would have guessed that the numbers were IP addresses, but you've got
two of them in that list starting with zero, and one ending with zero, so
if those are IP addresses, there may be an invalid address configured
somewhere.  And if they're not IP addresses, then I have no idea what they
are, and you may need to look into the client running on the host.

Thanks,
Shawn