Chapter 6. Cacti Maintenance

So far, we have looked into installing and running a Cacti instance, but what about its maintenance and upkeep? This chapter will show you how to create backups and restores of your Cacti installation, as well as provide you with information on how to keep your Cacti instance clean of dead hosts and unnecessary files.

In this chapter we are going to:

• Provide a short overview of maintaining Cacti

• Explain the directory structure of Cacti

• Describe backup and restore procedures

• Look into log file management with logrotate

• Clean up unused RRD files

• Provide a short overview of the Cacti CLI functionality

Let's begin!