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Abstract: HOWTO AIX: SET UP SYSTEM ACCOUNTING IN AIX 3.2
PLATFORM: RISCSYSTEM
OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX FOR RISC SYSTEM/6000 Version 3 Release 2 Modification 0
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* SETUP OF SYSTEM ACCOUNTING IN AIX 3.2 *
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The setup of system accounting as documented in the 3.2 AIX
InfoExplorer has some errors. This document describes the
Version 3.2 setup procedures and provides the corrections to
enable system accounting under AIX version 3.2.
The InfoExplorer and system documentation for AIX Version 3.2
require the setup person to be root. We will make the "root" user
the person that sets up system accounting and runs the reports.
You may want to modify the root user .profile as this will provide
access to the required executables. The creation of root profile
is optional, but will probably help with administration.
Steps for root/accounting administrator profile.
- login as root
- cp /etc/profile ./.profile
- edit ./.profile and add the following PATH statement,
all one line, no carriage return:
PATH= /usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:
/usr/sbin/acct:/var/adm/acct
- The PATH statement must precede the export of environment
variables. You will find the export statement which looks
like this:
export LOGNAME MAIL MAILMSG TERM
- you will need to add the PATH variable to the list of
exported environment variables. example:
export LOGNAME MAIL MAILMSG TERM PATH
Steps to setup System Accounting
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1. The first step in this procedure requires you to login to the
system as the root user. As described previously root is the
accounting administrator.
2. The next step is to execute the command:
/usr/sbin/acct/nulladm wtmp pacct
This command assures correct permissions and provides access
to the wtmp and pacct files.
3. As of the creation of this document the InfoExplorer
instruction's stated that the file /usr/sbin/acct/holidays would
require updating. This file did not exist and we have requested
correction. The correct holidays file you should update is
/etc/acct/holidays.
Notes:
An astrisk (*) in column 1 denotes a comment.
Define prime time on the first data line (the first line that
is not a comment), using a 24-hour clock. The line will consist
of three 4-digit fields, in the following order:
- current year
- When (hhmm) prime time begins
- When (hhmm) prime time ends.
- Leading blanks are ignored. You can enter midnight as
either 0000 or 2400.
For example to specify the year 1992 with prime time beginning
at 8:00am and ending at 5:00pm specify:
1992 0800 1700
Define the company holidays for the year on the next data line.
Each line contains four fields in the following order:
- Day of the year
- Month
- Day of the month
- Description of the Holiday.
The day-of-the-year field contains the number of the day of
the year in which the holiday falls, and must be a number
from 1 thru 365 (366 on a leap year like 1992.)
4. Turn on process accounting by adding the following line
to the /etc/rc file.
/usr/bin/su - root -c /usr/sbin/acct/startup
The startup command records the time that accounting was
turned on and cleans up the previous days accounting files.
5. The file systems that will be included for accounting
information need to be configured in the "/etc/filesystems"
file. Each filesystem that will be included will have the
following information added to it's stanza:
account = true
6. Indicate the data file that will be used for printer data by
adding the following line to the /etc/qconfig stanza for that
printer:
acctfile = /var/adm/qacct
7. You will need to create a /var/adm/acct/nite directory, a
/var/adm/acct/fiscal directory and finally a /var/adm/acct/sum
directory if they do not already exist.
8. The next step will require you to modify the crontabs file
for automated accumulation of accounting data. We will need to
edit the crontabs file for the "root" user, located in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
Note of interest: In some traditional UNIX(tm) systems
this was done in the /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/adm directory.
You may need to add some entries as well as modify times to
suit your installations time requirements, an example of the
entries needed follows:
0 2 * * 4 /usr/sbin/acct/dodisk
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/acct/ckpacct
0 4 * * 1-6 /usr/sbin/acct/runacct 2>/var/adm/acct/nite/accterr
The first line starts disk accounting at 2:00am (0 2), each
Thursday (4). The second line starts a check of the active
data files integrity at 5 minutes past each hour (5 *) every
day (*). The third line runs most accounting procedures and
processes the related active data files at 4:00 a.m, (0 4)
every Monday thru Saturday (1-6).
Hints: You must be logged on as the "root" user to edit this
file, and you must use the "crontabs" command to edit
this file (i.e. "crontab -e ").
9. Set the monthly accounting summary to run automatically by
including the monacct command in the
"/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root" file, example:
15 5 1 * * /usr/sbin/acct/monacct
This example schedules the summary to start at 5:15 am on the
first day of each month. You may want to adjust this to make
sure that the system has enough time to run the report without
having any effect on users.
REFERENCES:
AIX 3.2 InfoExplorer
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