How to recreate the PNP4NAGIOS RRD files from XML file

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Hi

My 2.0.0p27 site does not create the RRD files in ~/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata/HOST subdirectory.
I unmonitored the service and monitored back with no luck.

How can they be create from the .XML file?

I guess it is using rrdtool comand but I have no details.

Best regards

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Hi @JDamian

do you get any error message or something like this?

Regards,
Petra

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With 2.0 the new graphing system replaces PNP4Nagios also in the RAW edition.

Are there RRD files below $OMD_ROOT/var/check_mk/rrd?

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Yes, the are RRD files under ~/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata and under ~/var/check_mk/rrd.

The error messages are similar to

2023-05-26 10:58:27 [4] [main] [RRD helper 1643] [log] Error creating RRD for pnp_multiple;XXX;Interface port-channel434;outdisc;0: Tried to create /opt/omd/sites/mysite/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata/XXX/Interface_port-channel434_outdisc.rrd, but this RRD exists.

And yes, that RRD exists and its timestamp is about 2 months ago

-rw-r--r--. 1 mysite mysite 384952 Mar 21 03:28 Interface_port-channel434_outnucast.rrd

This site was updated from 1.6.0.p28 to 2.0.0p27.

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From this

   <DATASOURCE>
     <TEMPLATE>check_mk-df</TEMPLATE>
     <RRDFILE>/opt/omd/sites/mysite/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata/XXX/fs_C__DiskLibrary_MP_MON_NG_046__trend.rrd</RRDFILE>
     <RRD_STORAGE_TYPE>MULTIPLE</RRD_STORAGE_TYPE>
     <RRD_HEARTBEAT>8460</RRD_HEARTBEAT>
     <IS_MULTI>0</IS_MULTI>
     <DS>1</DS>
     <NAME>trend</NAME>
     <LABEL>trend</LABEL>
     <UNIT></UNIT>
     <ACT>1334.391368</ACT>
     <WARN></WARN>
     <WARN_MIN></WARN_MIN>
     <WARN_MAX></WARN_MAX>
     <WARN_RANGE_TYPE></WARN_RANGE_TYPE>
     <CRIT></CRIT>
     <CRIT_MIN></CRIT_MIN>
     <CRIT_MAX></CRIT_MAX>
     <CRIT_RANGE_TYPE></CRIT_RANGE_TYPE>
     <MIN>0</MIN>
     <MAX>1048575.229167</MAX>
   </DATASOURCE>

How to create the RRD file fs_C__DiskLibrary_MP_MON_NG_046__trend.rrd ?

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AFAIK - the perfdata remains under ~/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata for CRE editions.

@JDamian
Sometimes the .rrd creation is interrupted and the pnp4nagios logic doesn’t try again if the .xml is already there.
The easy solution: delete the .xml file, it doesn’t hold any information that won’t be recreated automatically.

If that affects more then a few services, we use this little automation

cd ~/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata
omd stop nagios && omd stop rrdached
 
# walk through all xml files and check if the .rrd files they are configured to use exist
 
for file in */*.xml; do grep -Po "(/.*omd/.*.rrd)" $file | while read rrd ; do test -f $rrd || echo $file >> /tmp/xmls_to_delete; done; done 
 
# make sure each xml is only listed once, if you don't have "sponge" from the moreutils, redirect to a temp file instead
sort -u /tmp/xmls_to_delete | sponge /tmp/xmls_to_delete
 
# if you want to be extra careful, make a backup of all the xml files, but to be honest, I've never needed them. 
tar cjf ~/custom/perfdata_xml_backup.tar.bz2 -T /tmp/xmls_to_delete
 
# now delete the xml files
 
for file in $(cat /tmp/xmls_to_delete); do rm "$file"; done
 
omd start nagios
omd start rrdached
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If this is the case you don’t use the RAW edition. It must be enterprise or free edition with CMC core.

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Yes @andreas-doehler, it is the CME edition.

And that is the outcome from using the cmk --convert-rrds tool — when it finds a “problem”, it stops and leaves you some RRD files in ~/var/pnp4nagios/perfdata and some RRD files in ~/check_mk/rrd for the same host.

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Hi, related with this topic… Do you know if it is possible to change de RRD_STOARGE_TYPE to SINGLE instead of using the MULTIPLE?

I need to migrate from nagios and I would lime to mantain that type.