Notification messages

Advanced Accounting continuously writes accounting data to registered accounting data files. It is necessary to monitor the state of these files to ensure that Advanced Accounting always has a place to record data.

Advanced Accounting produces messages to monitor the state of data files and the subsystem status. Use messages related to the data files to trigger actions based on events as they occur. A message is produced when a file is 90% full and when it is 100% full, indicating that administrative action is needed. The acctctl command is used to manage accounting data files.

You can use the cron facility to periodically execute a shell script or command that examines and manages accounting data files. By default, AIX® records information about the Advanced Accounting subsystem using the syslog daemon.

The readaacct command may be used to extract accounting records from accounting data files. It is a sample command, so be aware that it is neither fully tested nor maintained. For more information on extracting accounting records from accounting data files, see Reports and analysis.