system accounting

[deepak_9]

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 !!!

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

First thing you need to do is:

man sar
man sa1

Darrell

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

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..

[Robin Wakefield]

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

[Ian Dennison_1]

ll -d /var/adm/sa?

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

[Sanjay_6]

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

[Helen French]

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

[deepak_9]

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

[Tom Geudens]

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