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 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 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 try to fix any errors shown:

cd /var/www/html/cacti/cliphp repair_templates.php

 

The following output will be shown on a working system:

Repairing the database

Cacti also provides a repair utility for checking and repairing the database structure. Using the repair_database.php script may save you from...