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# Setting up RRDCached
This document will explain how to setup RRDCached for LibreNMS.
Since version 1.5, rrdtool / rrdcached now supports creating rrd files
over rrdcached. If you have rrdcached 1.5.5 or above, you can also
tune over rrdcached. To enable this set the following config:
```php
$config['rrdtool_version'] = '1.5.5';
```
This setting has to be the exact version of rrdtool you are running.
NOTE: This feature requires your client version of rrdtool to be 1.5.5
or newer, in addition to your rrdcached version.
# Distributed Poller Support Matrix
Shared FS: Is a shared filesystem required?
Features: Supported features in the version indicated.
```
G = Graphs.
C = Create RRD files.
U = Update RRD files.
T = Tune RRD files.
```
| Version | Shared FS | Features |
| ------- | :-------: | -------- |
| 1.4.x | Yes | G,U |
| <1.5.5 | Yes | G,U |
| >=1.5.5 | No | G,C,U |
| >=1.6.x | No | G,C,U |
It is recommended that you monitor your LibreNMS server with LibreNMS
so you can view the disk I/O usage delta.
# Installation Manual for
1. [RRDCached installation Ubuntu 16](#rrdcached-installation-ubuntu-16)
1. [RRDCached installation Debian Buster](#rrdcached-installation-debian-buster)
1. [RRDCached installation Debian Stretch](#rrdcached-installation-debian-stretch)
1. [RRDCached installation CentOS 7 or 8](#rrdcached-installation-centos-7-or-8)
1. [RRDCached installation CentOS 6](#rrdcached-installation-centos-6)
1. [Securing RRCached](#Securing-RRCached)
## RRDCached installation Ubuntu 16
1: Install rrdcached
```bash
sudo apt-get install rrdcached
```
2: Edit `/etc/default/rrdcached` to include:
```
DAEMON=/usr/bin/rrdcached
DAEMON_USER=librenms
DAEMON_GROUP=librenms
WRITE_THREADS=4
WRITE_TIMEOUT=1800
WRITE_JITTER=1800
BASE_PATH=/opt/librenms/rrd/
JOURNAL_PATH=/var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
PIDFILE=/run/rrdcached.pid
SOCKFILE=/run/rrdcached.sock
SOCKGROUP=librenms
BASE_OPTIONS="-B -F -R"
```
2: Fix permissions
```bash
chown librenms:librenms /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
```
3: Restart the rrdcached service
```bash
systemctl restart rrdcached.service
```
5: Edit `/opt/librenms/config.php` to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```
## RRDCached installation Debian Buster
(rrdcached 1.7.1)
1: Install rrdcached
```bash
sudo apt-get install rrdcached
```
2; Edit /etc/default/rrdcached to include:
```bash
DAEMON=/usr/bin/rrdcached
WRITE_TIMEOUT=1800
WRITE_JITTER=1800
WRITE_THREADS=4
BASE_PATH=/opt/librenms/rrd/
JOURNAL_PATH=/var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
PIDFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.pid
SOCKFILE=/run/rrdcached.sock
SOCKGROUP=librenms
DAEMON_GROUP=librenms
DAEMON_USER=librenms
BASE_OPTIONS="-B -F -R"
```
3: Fix permissions
```bash
chown librenms:librenms /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
```
4: Restart the rrdcached service
```bash
systemctl restart rrdcached.service
```
5: Edit /opt/librenms/config.php to include:
For local RRDCached server
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```
For remote RRDCached server make sure you have network option in /var/default/rrdcached
```bash
NETWORK_OPTIONS="-L"
```
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "IPADDRESS:42217";
```
NOTE: change IPADDRESS to the ip the rrdcached server is listening on.
## RRDCached installation Debian Stretch
(rrdcached 1.6.0)
1: Install rrdcached
```bash
sudo apt-get install rrdcached
```
2; Edit /etc/default/rrdcached to include:
```bash
DAEMON=/usr/bin/rrdcached
WRITE_TIMEOUT=1800
WRITE_JITTER=1800
WRITE_THREADS=4
BASE_PATH=/opt/librenms/rrd/
JOURNAL_PATH=/var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
PIDFILE=/var/run/rrdcached.pid
SOCKFILE=/run/rrdcached.sock
SOCKGROUP=librenms
DAEMON_GROUP=librenms
DAEMON_USER=librenms
BASE_OPTIONS="-B -F -R"
```
3: Fix permissions
```bash
chown librenms:librenms /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/
```
4: Restart the rrdcached service
```bash
systemctl restart rrdcached.service
```
5: Edit /opt/librenms/config.php to include:
For local RRDCached server
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```
For remote RRDCached server make sure you have network option in /var/default/rrdcached
```bash
NETWORK_OPTIONS="-L"
```
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "IPADDRESS:42217";
```
NOTE: change IPADDRESS to the ip the rrdcached server is listening on.
## RRDCached installation CentOS 7 or 8
1: Create `/etc/systemd/system/rrdcached.service` with this content:
```
[Unit]
Description=Data caching daemon for rrdtool
After=network.service
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/rrdcached.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rrdcached -w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s librenms -U librenms -G librenms -B -R -j /var/tmp -l unix:/run/rrdcached.sock -t 4 -F -b /opt/librenms/rrd/
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
```
2: Start rrdcached
```bash
systemctl enable --now rrdcached.service
```
3: Edit `/opt/librenms/config.php` to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```
## RRDCached installation CentOS 6
This example is based on a fresh LibreNMS install, on a minimal CentOS 6 installation.
In this example, we'll use the Repoforge repository.
```ssh
rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
```
- Enable the Extra repo
```ssh
yum update rrdtool
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
```
- Disable the [rpmforge] and [rpmforge-extras] repos again
```ssh
vi /etc/sysconfig/rrdcached
# Settings for rrdcached
OPTIONS="-w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -s librenms -U librenms -G librenms -B -R -j /var/tmp -l unix:/run/rrdcached.sock -t 4 -F -b /opt/librenms/rrd/"
RRDC_USER=librenms
mkdir /var/run/rrdcached
chown librenms:librenms /var/run/rrdcached/
chown librenms:librenms /var/rrdtool/
chown librenms:librenms /var/rrdtool/rrdcached/
chkconfig rrdcached on
service rrdcached start
```
- Edit /opt/librenms/config.php to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```
# Verify
Check to see if the graphs are being drawn in LibreNMS. This might take a few minutes.
After at least one poll cycle (5 mins), check the LibreNMS disk I/O performance delta.
Disk I/O can be found under the menu Devices>All Devices>[localhost
hostname](../Installation/Installation-CentOS-7-Apache.md)>Health>Disk I/O.
Depending on many factors, you should see the Ops/sec drop by ~30-40%.
# Securing RRCached
Please see [RRDCached Security](RRDCached-Security.md)