Nagios Server Disk Management

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ecarrasq
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Nagios Server Disk Management

Post by ecarrasq »

System Info

Linux Distribution and version?

*Linux version 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)) #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 20:14:03 EDT 2011
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)

32 or 64bit?

32 bit

VMware Image or Manual Install of XI?

VMware Image

Are there specials configurations on your system, ie; is Gnome installed? Are you using a proxy? Are you using SSL?

No.

ISSUE:

What is best practice in maintaining Nagios Server disk space usage to a minimum? Any files that can be deleted, or moved out of the server?

Thanks,
Eddie
agriffin
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Joined: Mon May 09, 2011 9:36 am

Re: Nagios Server Disk Management

Post by agriffin »

Log files are generally safe to delete if you don't need the information. You could also offload MySQL to another server
jtata
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Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:27 pm

Re: Nagios Server Disk Management

Post by jtata »

I added a new virtual disk mounted under /store as backups can get a bit large over time as well.
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