librenms-librenms/doc/Support/Performance.md

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Performance optimisations

This document will give you some guidance on optimising your setup.

The suggestions are in a rough order of how much impact they will have.

RRDCached

We absolutely recommend running this, it will save on IO load. RRDCached

MySQL Optimisation

It's advisable after 24 hours of running MySQL that you run MySQL Tuner which will make suggestions on things you can change specific to your setup.

One recommendation we can make is that you set the following in my.cnf under a [mysqld] group:

innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0

You can also set this to 2. This will have the possibility that you could lose up to 1 second on mysql data in the event MySQL crashes or your server does but it provides an amazing difference in IO use.

Polling modules

Disable polling (and discovery) modules that you do not need. You can do this globally in config.php like:

Disable OSPF polling

$config['poller_modules']['ospf'] = 0;

You can disable modules globally then re-enable the module per device or the opposite way. For a list of modules please see Poller modules

SNMP Max Repeaters

We have support for SNMP Max repeaters which can be handy on devices where we poll a lot of ports or bgp sessions for instance and where snmpwalk or snmpbulkwalk is used. This needs to be enabled on a per device basis under edit device -> snmp -> Max repeaters.

You can also set this globally with the config option $config['snmp']['max_repeaters'] = X;.

It's advisable to test the time taken to snmpwalk IF-MIB or something similar to work out what the best value is. To do this run the following but replace with varying numbers from 10 upto around 50. You will also need to set the correct snmp version, hostname and community string:

time snmpbulkwalk -v2c -cpublic HOSTNAME -Cr<REPEATERS> -M /opt/librenms/mibs -m IF-MIB IfEntry

NOTE: Do not go blindly setting this value as you can impact polling negatively.

SNMP Max OIDs

For sensors polling we now do bulk snmp gets to speed things up. By default this is ten but you can overwrite this per device under edit device -> snmp -> Max OIDs.

You can also set this globally with the config option $config['snmp']['max_oid'] = X;.

NOTE: It is advisable to monitor sensor polling when you change this to ensure you don't set the value too high.

Optimise poller-wrapper

The default 16 threads that poller-wrapper.py runs as isn't necessarily the optimal number. A general rule of thumb is 2 threads per core but we suggest that you play around with lowering / increasing the number until you get the optimal value.

This can be changed by going to the cron job for librenms. Usually in /etc/cron.d/librenms and changing the "16"

*/5  *    * * *   librenms    /opt/librenms/cronic /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 16

KEEP in MIND that this doesn't always help, it depends on your system and CPU. So be careful.

Recursive DNS

If your install uses hostnames for devices and you have quite a lot then it's advisable to setup a local recursive dns instance on the LibreNMS server. Something like pdns-recursor can be used and then configure /etc/resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1 for queries.

Per port polling - experimental

By default the polling ports module will walk ifXEntry + some items from ifEntry regardless of the port. So if a port is marked as deleted because you don't want to see them or it's disabled then we still collect data. For the most part this is fine as the walks are quite quick. However for devices with a lot of ports and good % of those are either deleted or disabled then this approach isn't optimal. So to counter this you can enable 'selected port polling' per device within the edit device -> misc section or by globally enabling it (not recommended): $config['polling']['selected_ports'] = true;. You can also set it for a specific OS: $config['os']['ios']['polling']['selected_ports'] = true;.

Running ./scripts/collect-port-polling.php will poll your devices with both full and selective polling, display a table with the difference and optionally enable or disable selected ports polling for devices which would benefit from a change. Note that it doesn't continously re-evaluate this, it will only be updated when the script is run. There are a number of options:

-h <device id> | <device hostname wildcard>  Poll single device or wildcard hostname
-e <percentage>                              Enable/disable selected ports polling for devices which would benefit <percentage> from a change

Web interface

HTTP/2

If you are running https then you should enable http/2 support in whatever web server you use:

For Nginx (1.9.5 and above) change listen 443 ssl; to listen 443 ssl http2; in the Virtualhost config.

For Apache (2.4.17 an above) set Protocols h2 http/1.1 in the Virtualhost config.