Collecting accounting data

Once you have setup system accounting you will want to start collecting and processing the different type of accounting data.

System data collection and reporting
You can set up the system to automatically collect data and generate reports.
Connect-time accounting data
Connect-time data is collected by the init command and the login command.
Process accounting data
The Accounting system collects data on resource usage for each process as it runs.
Process accounting reports
Two commands process the billing-related data that was collected in the /var/adm/pacct or other specified file.
Disk-usage accounting data
Much accounting information is collected as the resources are consumed. The dodisk command, run as specified by the cron daemon, periodically writes disk-usage records for each user to the /var/adm/acct/nite(x)/dacct file.
Printer-usage accounting data
The collection of printer-usage data is a cooperative effort between the enq command and the queuing daemon.
Fee accounting data
You can produce an ASCII total accounting record in the /var/adm/fee file.

Parent topic: System accounting