In <4214A7C6.9050602 at cisco.com> Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> writes:
Currently I am forwarding (via BBRELAY option) all of my BB status messages to my test Hobbit server. This allows me to fully test hobbit, configure alerts etc, without disrupting my "production" bb server.
Once I make the full switch to hobbit, what is the best way to move as much of the historacle information as possible over to hobbit? I assume I could copy the rrd files over? What about the history logs? I mainly don't want to lose my year of rrd info.
From BB's bbvar/ directory, move the "hist" and "histlogs" directories directly to Hobbit's data/ directory. That way you'll keep all of the historical status logs.
For the RRD files, they must be moved and renamed. There's a "moverrd.sh" script in the "hobbit-4.0*/hobbitd/" directory, which will help you with moving or copying the RRD files from BB to Hobbit. Note that this script requires that your Hobbit bb-hosts file has all of the hosts listed.
You cannot move the netstat RRD files over, since the data layout is different. That goes for the vmstat RRD files from Linux hosts as well. The rest of the RRD files are compatible between BB/LARRD and Hobbit.
Henrik