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acctadm - configure extended accounting facility

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

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

The following options are supported: -d resource_list

-D -e resource_list -E -f filename -r -s -x

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

The following operands are supported: process

task flow net

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

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
 Net accounting: inactive
 Net accounting file: none
 Tracked Net resources: none
 Untracked Net 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, \e
 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, \e
 action,ctime,lseen,projid,uid
 basic saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,nbytes,npkts,action
 net:
 extended name,devname,edest,vlan_tpid,vlan_tci,sap,cpuid, \e
 priority,bwlimit,curtime,ibytes,obytes,ipkts,opks,ierrpkts \e
 oerrpkts,saddr,daddr,sport,dport,protocol,dsfield
 basic name,devname,edest,vlan_tpid,vlan_tci,sap,cpuid, \e
 priority,bwlimit,curtime,ibytes,obytes,ipkts,opks,ierrpkts \e
 oerrpkts

In the output above, the lines beginning with extended are shown with a backslash character. In actual acctadm output, these lines are displayed 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

The following exit values are returned: 0

1 2 95 96

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE

Interface Stability Committed

acct (2), ipqos (4IPP), attributes (7), smf (7), dladm (8), flowadm (8)

Both extended accounting and regular accounting can be active.

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

Extended accounting configuration is stored in the service management facility (smf(7)) repository. The configuration is restored at boot by a transient service instance, one per accounting type:

svc:/system/extended-accounting:flow Flow accounting
svc:/system/extended-accounting:process Process accounting
svc:/system/extended-accounting:task Task accounting
svc:/system/extended-accounting:net Network accounting

The instances are enabled or disabled by acctadm as needed. Configuration changes are made using acctadm; service properties should not be modified directly using svccfg(8).

Users can manage extended accounting (start accounting, stop accounting, change accounting configuration parameters) if they have the appropriate RBAC Rights profile for the accounting type to be managed:

The preceding profiles are for, respectively, flow accounting, process accounting, task accounting, and network accounting.