acctadm(1M)                                               System Administration Commands                                               acctadm(1M)

NAME

       acctadm - configure extended accounting facility

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/acctadm [-DErux] [-d resource_list] [-e resource_list] [-f filename] [task | process | flow]

DESCRIPTION

       acctadm  configures  various  attributes of the extended accounting facility. Without arguments, acctadm displays the current status of the
       extended accounting facility.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d resource_list        Disable reporting of resource usage for resource. Specify resource_list as a comma-separated list of  resources  or
                               resource groups.

                               This option requires an operand. See OPERANDS.

       -D                      Disable accounting of the given operand type without closing the accounting file. This option can be used to tempo-
                               rarily stop writing accounting records to the accounting file without closing it. To close  the  file  use  the  -x
                               option. See -x.

       -e resource_list        Enable  reporting  of  resource usage for resource. Specify resource_list as a comma-separated list of resources or
                               resource groups.

                               This option requires an operand. See OPERANDS.

       -E                      Enable accounting of the given operand type without sending the accounting output to a file. This  option  requires
                               an operand. See OPERANDS.

       -f filename             Send the accounting output for the given operand type to filename. If filename exists, its contents are lost.

                               This option requires an operand. See OPERANDS.

       -r                      Display available resource groups.

                               When  this  option is used with an operand, it displays resource groups available for a given accounting type. When
                               no operand is specified, this option displays resource groups for all available accounting types. See OPERANDS.

       -u                      Configure accounting based on the contents of /etc/acctadm.conf.

       -x                      Deactivate accounting of the given operand type. This option also closes the accounting file for the given account-
                               ing type if it is currently open.

                               This option requires an operand. See OPERANDS.

OPERANDS

       The -d, -D, -e, -E, -f, and -x options require an operand.

       The following operands are supported:

       process                 Run acctadm on the process accounting components of the extended accounting facility.

       task                    Run acctadm on the task accounting components of the extended accounting facility.

       flow                    Run acctadm on the IPQoS accounting components of the extended accounting facility.

       The  optional  final  parameter to acctadm represents whether the command should act on the process, system task or IPQoS accounting compo-
       nents of the extended accounting facility.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Displaying the Current Status

       The following command displays the current status. In this example, system task accounting is  active  and  tracking  only  CPU  resources.
       Process and flow accounting are not active.

       $ acctadm
                   Task accounting: active
              Task accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/task
            Tracked task resources: extended
          Untracked task resources: host
                Process accounting: inactive
           Process accounting file: none
         Tracked process resources: none
       Untracked process resources: extended,host
                   Flow accounting: inactive
              Flow accounting file: none
            Tracked flow resources: none
          Untracked flow resources: extended

       Example 2: Activating Basic Process Accounting

       The following command activates basic process accounting:

       $ acctadm -e basic -f /var/adm/exacct/proc process

       Example 3: Displaying Available Resource Groups

       The following command displays available resource groups:

       $ acctadm -r
         process:
         extended pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,projid, 
         taskid,ancpid,wait-status,zone,flag,memory,mstate
         basic    pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,flag
         task:
         extended taskid,projid,cpu,time,host,mstate,anctaskid,zone
         basic    taskid,projid,cpu,time
         flow:
         extended saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,dsfield,nbytes,npkts, 
         action,ctime,lseen,projid,uid
         basic    saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,nbytes,npkts,action

       In the output above, the lines beginning with extended are shown with a backslash character. In actual acctadm output, these lines are dis-
       played as unbroken, long lines.

       Example 4: Displaying Resource Groups for Task Accounting

       The following command displays resource groups for task accounting:

       $ acctadm -r task
         extended taskid,projid,cpu,time,host,mstate,anctaskid,zone
         basic    taskid,projid,cpu,time

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        Successful completion.

                The modifications to the current configuration were valid and made successfully.

       1        An error occurred.

                 A fatal error occured either in obtaining or modifying   the accounting configuration.

       2        Invalid command line options were specified.

FILES

       /etc/acctadm.conf

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       acct(2), attributes(5), ipqos(7IPP)

NOTES

       Both extended accounting and regular accounting can be active.

       Available resources can vary from system to system, and from platform to platform.

SunOS 5.10                                                          30 Sep 2004                                                        acctadm(1M)