centos-root is huge

This support forum board is for support questions relating to Nagios Log Server, our solution for managing and monitoring critical log data.
Locked
cdcsysadmin
Posts: 55
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:52 pm

centos-root is huge

Post by cdcsysadmin »

running log server for half year and the size of centos-root is 4.5TB now

how to archive / tar log over 3months old so I can save up harddisk space for new coming log files?
npolovenko
Support Tech
Posts: 3457
Joined: Mon May 15, 2017 5:00 pm

Re: centos-root is huge

Post by npolovenko »

Hello, @cdcsysadmin. I'd start with setting up a remote repository on a network drive. Then configuring Maintenace Settings in the Log Server to delete indexes after a certain amount of days. These articles should help you set everything up:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... enance.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ations.pdf
As of May 25th, 2018, all communications with Nagios Enterprises and its employees are covered under our new Privacy Policy.
Locked