topic Re: system accounting in Operating System - HP-UX

system accounting

deepak_9 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:35:02 GMT

Hi,

wanted to know how to enable the system accounting. I am getting an error "sar: Can't open /var/adm/sa/sa19" whenever I try to run "sar" command. pl help !!!

Re: system accounting

Darrell Allen — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:38:52 GMT

Hi,

First thing you need to do is:

man sar
man sa1

Darrell

Re: system accounting

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:40:51 GMT

Hi,

The sar program is looking for the binary file /usr/adm/sa/saXX, where XX
is the current date of the month. To create this file, do the following:

/usr/lib/sa/sadc /usr/adm/sa/sa`date +%d`

Please see the sa1(1M) man page for more information.

-USA..

Re: system accounting

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:41:21 GMT

Deepak,

Do you mean system accounting? - sar is for system resource monitoring (System Activity Reporter)

For system accounting, look at:

man 1m acct

Rgds, Robin

Re: system accounting

Ian Dennison_1 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:43:03 GMT

ll -d /var/adm/sa?

Sounds silly but had to ask! Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: system accounting

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:43:54 GMT

Hi Deepak,

you probably don't have sar configured on your system. Do "man sar" to see how you can configure sar. Meanwhile to get the sar report for the day, try this,

/usr/lib/sa/sadc /usr/adm/sa/sa`date +%d`

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: system accounting

Helen French — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:46:01 GMT

hey,

See the man pages of SAM. the files 'saXX' in /var/adm/sa are the standard system activity daily data files.

System accounting and SAR are totally different.

See this :
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/B2355-90681.html

HTH,
Shiju

Re: system accounting

deepak_9 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:50:53 GMT

hi,

thanks for ur prompt help.
one more thing.. now i have enabled monthly accounting. but for daily accounting the details of my sar19 should be updated every 1 hr. can u pls guide me as to what parameters need to be set for a daily sar report on a hourly basis.

regards

Re: system accounting

Tom Geudens — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:52:07 GMT

Hi,
From my very own crontab :-)
0 * * * * /usr/lbin/sa/sa1 900 4
05 22 * * * /usr/lbin/sa/sa2 -s 7:00 -e 19:01 -i 3600 -A

Once you got these running ... sar should work.
Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens