Ganglia -configuration (log location)

Ganglia store the log at default location (default: "/var/lib/ganglia/rrds")

It makes your "/" full of size.

There are needed to move default location to other location.


mkdir -p /some/other/place/

chown -R ganglia /some/other/place/

chmod -R 777 /some/other/place/
or

chown -R nobody:root /var/lib/ganglia/rrds
sudo nano /etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf

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<!-- remove # -->
rrd_rootdir "/mnt/ganglia/log"

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restart service

sudo service ganglia-monitor restart && sudo service gmetad restart && sudo service apache2 restart

restart service

sudo service ganglia-monitor restart

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When the graph is not work at ganglia web front

Fix graphs by symlinking rrds to /var/lib

rm -rf /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/*
rm -rf /mnt/ganglia/rrds/*

# Symlink /var/lib/ganglia/rrds to /mnt/ganglia/rrds

rmdir /var/lib/ganglia/rrds
ln -s /mnt/ganglia/rrds /var/lib/ganglia/rrds

# Make sure rrd storage directory has right permissions
mkdir -p /mnt/ganglia/rrds
chown -R nobody:nobody /mnt/ganglia/rrds