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===== Cricket ===== | ===== Cricket ===== | ||
- | A brand new solution is in place for making cricket config files automatically. To ensure a smooth transition make sure to read this documentation carefully. | + | After the upgrade the following steps are required: |
- | + | - Make sure Cricket is not running. | |
- | Prior to making any changes to the existing installation, the following MUST be done to ensure correctness: | + | - **Do a backup of all the rrd-files.** |
- | - Remove all rrd-database tuples regarding Cricket. | + | - Run ''migrate_cricket.py''. This will: |
- | - Run makecricketconfig.pl to fill the rrd-database with complete and correct data. | + | * Delete the cricket-entries in the rrd database (the database will be filled again when the new makecricketconfig runs) |
- | + | * Remove any temperature oids from the rrd-files. This because they weren't correct in the first place. | |
- | When the rrd-database is refilled, the following steps must be executed: | + | |
- Before removing any Cricket files make sure you have a backup of them. Especially if you have altered them yourself in any way. | - Before removing any Cricket files make sure you have a backup of them. Especially if you have altered them yourself in any way. | ||
- | - Remove old configuration-files from the cricket-config directory (it is highly recommended to do this for the top level Defaults file aswell). This is only necessary for the following directories (NB: do not remove these directories): | + | - Remove old configuration-files from the cricket-config directory. This is only necessary for: |
- | * routers/ | + | * Defaults |
- | * router-interfaces/ | + | * routers/Defaults |
- | * switches/ | + | * router-interfaces/Defaults |
- | * switch-ports/ | + | * switches/Defaults |
- | - Copy new default configuration files to the cricket-config directory. | + | * switch-ports/Defaults |
- | - Run extract_cricket_oids.py to extract oids from the Default files and insert them into the snmpoid table. | + | - Copy new default configuration files to the ''cricket-config'' directory. |
+ | - **Make sure that the datapath in the top level Defaults-file is correct and pointing to the directory where the rrd-files are stored.** | ||
+ | - Run ''extract_cricket_oids.py'' to extract oids from the Default files and insert them into the snmpoid table. | ||
- | Before running the new makecricketconfig make sure to do the database upgrade. | + | You can now run mcc.py to create the Cricket config. |