How to Display Extended Accounting Status

Type acctadm without arguments to display the current status of the extended accounting facility.

# acctadm
                 Task accounting: active
            Task accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/task
          Tracked task resources: extended,mstate
        Untracked task resources: host
              Process accounting: active
         Process accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/proc
       Tracked process resources: extended
     Untracked process resources: host,mstate

In the previous example, system task accounting is active in extended mode and mstate mode. Process accounting is active in extended mode.

In the context of extended accounting, microstate (mstate) refers to the extended data, associated with microstate process transitions, that is available in the process usage file (see proc(4)). This data provides much more detail about the activities of the process than basic or extended records.