# Preparing LibreNMS Database

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**Created:** [June 23, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67 "2023-06-23T08:11:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/banginis/32/74_2.png) [@Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/Banginis)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/1 "2023-06-23T08:11:06Z")

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Hello,  
well I do not know how this forum is visited by people. But in the step where I need to prepare librenms database I came up with the problem. There was other problems before that, but somehow I overcome those.

docker exec librenms setup\_database  
Could not connect to database, check logs/librenms.log.

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**Author:** ![jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/jasonloong/32/8_2.png) [@jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/jasonloong)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/2 "2023-06-23T08:40:04Z")

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Hi @Banginis and welcome to the forum.

> [@Banginis](#):
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> There was other problems before that, but somehow I overcome those.
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> docker exec librenms setup\_database  
> Could not connect to database, check logs/librenms.log.

I will need more than that to help you, could you provide some error logs?

When you are preparing the database, what errors were shown on screen etc…

Can you also provide your Docker commands that you have used to prepare the database

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**Author:** ![jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/jasonloong/32/8_2.png) [@jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/jasonloong)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/3 "2023-06-25T08:32:11Z")

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Tutorial has been updated. If you are still keen on getting it to work using my tutorial:

1. `docker stop librenms && docker rm librenms`
2. `docker stop mariadb && docker rm mariadb`
3. remove existing `mariadb` and `librenms` folders from `/volume1/docker`
4. Follow tutorial again

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**Author:** ![Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/banginis/32/74_2.png) [@Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/Banginis)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/4 "2023-06-27T17:06:50Z")

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Sorry to reply so late. I will try it again at the weekend when I have a bit of time to tinker. Thank you Jason.

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**Author:** ![Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/banginis/32/74_2.png) [@Banginis](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/Banginis)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/5 "2023-07-01T09:55:10Z")

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Thank you so much it does work like a charm now!

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**Author:** ![jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/user_avatar/forums.jasonloong.com/jasonloong/32/8_2.png) [@jasonloong](https://forums.jasonloong.com/u/jasonloong)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.jasonloong.com/t/preparing-librenms-database/67/6 "2023-07-02T12:32:37Z")

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Thank you for reporting in! 😄