Daily Report (System Administration Guide, Volume 2)

System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Daily Report

This report gives information about each terminal line used. A sample daily report appears below.

Jul  7 02:30:02 1999  DAILY REPORT FOR mercury Page 1
 
 
from Wed Jul 07 02:30:02 1999
to   Thu Jul 08 02:30:02 1999
1       system boot
1       run-level 3
1       acctg on
1       runacct
1       acctcon
 
TOTAL DURATION IS 1384 MINUTES
LINE         MINUTES  PERCENT  # SESS  # ON  # OFF
/dev/pts/5   0        0        0       0     0   
/dev/pts/6   0        0        0       0     1   
/dev/pts/7   0        0        0       0     0   
console      1337     97       1       1     1   
pts/3        0        0        0       0     1   
pts/4        0        0        0       0     1   
pts/5        3        0        2       2     3   
pts/6        232      17       5       5     5   
pts/7        54       4        1       1     2   
pts/8        0        0        0       0     1   
pts/9        0        0        0       0     1   
TOTALS       1625     --       9       9     16

The from and to lines specify the time period reflected in the report--the period from the time the last accounting report was generated until the time the current accounting report was generated. It is followed by a log of system reboots, shutdowns, power failure recoveries, and any other record dumped into /var/adm/wtmpx by the acctwtmp program. For more information, see acct(1M).

The second part of the report is a breakdown of line utilization. The TOTAL DURATION tells how long the system was in multiuser state (accessible through the terminal lines). The columns are described in the following table.

Table 32-3 Daily Report Data


Column	Description
`LINE`	The terminal line or access port.
`MINUTES`	The total number of minutes that the line was in use during the accounting period.
`PERCENT`	The total number of `MINUTES` the line was in use, divided into the `TOTAL` `DURATION`.
`# SESS`	The number of times this port was accessed for a login session.
`# ON`	Identical to `SESS`. (This column does not have much meaning anymore. Previously, it listed the number of times that a port was used to log in a user.)
`# OFF`	This column reflects 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 state. If the `# OFF` exceeds the `# ON` by a large factor, the multiplexer, modem, or cable is probably going bad, or there is a bad connection somewhere. The most common cause of this is an unconnected cable dangling from the multiplexer.

During real time, you should monitor /var/adm/wtmpx because it is the file from which the connect accounting is geared. If the wtmpx file grows rapidly, execute acctcon -l file < /var/adm/wtmpx to see which tty line is the noisiest. If interruption is occurring frequently, general system performance will be affected. Additionally, wtmp may become corrupted. To correct this, see "How to Fix a wtmpx File".