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What file system is your disk formatted in?

It looks like I need to expand the volume where Nagios is installed, or maybe change the location of where the logs are stored? Would that be a better and safer idea?

abrist wrote:What file system is your disk formatted in?

Here's what I go abrist


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You disk is at 99% usage once again. You may be able to alter the partition sizes as you are using lvm. You would have to shrink /home and expand /
Otherwise, the easier route would be reinstall and re-provision, making sure /, /usr, and /var are much larger (or just provision 1 big volume for all of /). You also need to identify and fix repeating errors in your logs post install.

Is the backup and restore of Nagios pretty friendly? That's my only concern, is losing all my configurations and settings.

The backup and restore process is pretty painless. You will have to clear space though before you can successfully run our backup script:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ing_XI.pdf

abrist wrote:You also need to identify and fix repeating errors in your logs post install.

I'm getting a bunch of access_log and ssl_error logs that's filling up the space. I'm just wondering, this is a standard install I did using yum. Isn't the volume size a little small for which the logs are stored?

The size of the logs depends on how many people access the web UI of the site. the httpd logs should be on a rotation, only keeping 4 of each

Hey guys! So I left this issue be for awhile, as I simply just routinely deleted the logs. I went on holiday and when I came back the Nagios server was down being that nobody was deleting those logs.

@scottwilkerson
You mentioned the logs depend on how many people access the web UI. I currently have Nagios displayed on 5 monitors, therefore 5 connections are established via the web UI.

As of right now, I have 3 access_log, 2 error_log, 5 ssl_error_log. I peaked in on a error_log, but it's just a bunch of jibberish really. I know I need to fight the root cause of why all these logs are generated, but to access the other logs I can't even see them because they are so large. Or I'm not giving it enough time to come up in the console, 1+ minute is already long to view logs What a mess I created, I'm tempted to start over but I don't want to lose all the config work I put in to this build.
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If you wish to disable access log logging, you can comment out the line: From the file: