Daily Report (System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration)

System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Daily Report

This report gives information about each terminal line used. The following is a sample Daily Report.

Jan 16 02:30 2004  DAILY REPORT FOR venus Page 1


from Mon Jan 15 02:30:02 2004
to   Tue Oan 16 02:30:01 2004
1       runacct
1       acctcon

TOTAL DURATION IS 1440 MINUTES
LINE         MINUTES  PERCENT  # SESS  # ON  # OFF
console      868      60       1       1     2
TOTALS       868      --       1       1     2

The from and to lines specify the time period reflected in the report. This time period covers the time the last Daily Report was generated to the time the current Daily Report was generated. Then, the report presents a log of system reboots, shutdowns, power failure recoveries, and any other record written to the /var/adm/wtmpx file by the acctwtmp program. For more information, see the acct(1M) man page.

The second part of the report is a breakdown of terminal line utilization. The TOTAL DURATION tells how long the system was in multiuser mode (accessible through the terminal lines). The following table describes the data provided by the Daily Report.

Table 10–3 Daily Report Data


Column	Description
`LINE`	The terminal line or access port.
`MINUTES`	The number of minutes that the line was in use during the accounting period.
`PERCENT`	The `TOTAL` `DURATION` divided by the number of `MINUTES`.
`# SESS`	The number of times this line or port was accessed for a login session.
`# ON`	Same as `SESS`. (This column no longer has meaning. Previously, this column listed the number of times that a line or port was used to log in a user.)
`# OFF` T	The number of times a user logs out and any interrupts that occur on that line. Generally, interrupts occur on a port when `ttymon` is first invoked after the system is brought to multiuser mode. If the `# OFF` exceeds the `# SESS` by a large factor, the multiplexer, modem, or cable is probably going bad. Or, a bad connection exists somewhere. The most common cause is an unconnected cable dangling from the multiplexer.

During real time, you should monitor the /var/adm/wtmpx file because it is the file from which the connect accounting is derived. If the wtmpx file grows rapidly, execute the following command to see which tty line is the noisiest.

# /usr/lib/acct/acctcon -l file < /var/adm/wtmpx

If interruption is occurring frequently, general system performance will be affected. Additionally, the wtmp file might become corrupted. To correct this problem, see How to Fix a Corrupted wtmpx File.