acctadm configures various attributes of the extended accounting facility. Without arguments, acctadm displays the current status of the extended accounting facility.
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 temporarily 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 accounting type if it is currently open.
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 components of the extended accounting facility.
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,mstate
Untracked task resources: host
Process accounting: inactive
Process accounting file: none
Tracked process resources: none
Untracked process resources: extended,host,mstate
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:
