source: Extensions/RRDCached.md
# 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';
```

NOTE: This feature requires your client version of rrdtool to be 1.5.5 or over, 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.

### RRDCached installation CentOS 7
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 /var/www/librenms/rrd/

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
```

2. Start rrdcached
```bash
systemctl enable --now rrdcached.service
```

3. Edit `/var/www/librenms/config.php` to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/run/rrdcached.sock";
```

### 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=/var/www/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 `/var/www/librenms/config.php` to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock";
```

### RRDCached installation Debian Jessie (rrdcached 1.4.8)

1. Install rrdcached
```bash
sudo apt-get install rrdcached
```

2. Edit /etc/default/rrdcached to include:
```bash
OPTS="-s librenms"
OPTS="$OPTS -l unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock"
OPTS="$OPTS -j /var/lib/rrdcached/journal/ -F"
OPTS="$OPTS -b /var/www/librenms/rrd/ -B"
OPTS="$OPTS -w 1800 -z 1800 -f 3600 -t 4"
```

3. Restart the rrdcached service
```bash
    systemctl restart rrdcached.service
```

4. Edit /var/www/librenms/config.php to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached'] = "unix:/var/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:/var/run/rrdcached/rrdcached.sock -t 4 -F -b /var/www/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 /var/www/librenms/config.php to include:
```php
$config['rrdcached']    = "unix:/var/run/rrdcached/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]>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)

[1]: http://librenms.readthedocs.org/Installation/Installation-CentOS-7-Apache/
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