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Check to see if the webservice is running, use this URL in a browser: http://cacti.geant.net:8888/restful/resources/cacti/about/ . You should get the following response:

<info>
    <version>23.0</version>
    <company>GEANT Ltd</company>
    <author>R.P.J.Sanigar</author>
    <created>1807-MaySeptember-20162017</created>
</info>

Log files are created on the prod-cacti01-fra-de.geant.net server in the /tmp directory and start with the name BOD-Log. Check the contents of these files to see if any exceptions have been raised.

Apache Tomcat writes logs in the /var/log/tomcat6 directory. The XML that is sent by the Technology Proxy of BOD is written in the catalina.out file

Within the cacti database, there is a table called bod_requests, by running the following query, it is possible to determine when the last graph that was created:

SELECT * FROM bod_requests
ORDER BY bod_request_datetime DESC;

The fields local_data_id_a and local_data_id_b refer to the ID of the Cacti Data Source.

The fields local_graph_id_a and local_graph_id_b refer to the ID of the Cacti Graph created.

The field data_template_id refers to the ID of the Cacti Data Template used to generate the required data sources , 41 refers to a Traffic data source, and 38 refers to an Errors and Discards data source