Daily Report
This report gives
information about each terminal line used.
``Sample Daily Report''
shows a sample daily report.
Jun 27 09:53 1992 DAILY REPORT FOR sfxbs Page 1
from Thu Jun 26 17:45:22 1992
to Fri Jun 27 09:51:25 1992
1 runacct
1 acctcon
TOTAL DURATION IS 966 MINUTES
LINE MINUTES PERCENT # SESS # ON # OFF
/dev/pts/0 0 0 0 0 3
pts0000 25 3 7 4 4
console 157 16 6 3 3
TOTALS 183 -- 13 7 7
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sample Daily Report
The from and to
lines tell you 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 fail recoveries, and any other records dumped into
/var/adm/wtmp by the acctwtmp program. See
acct(1M)
for more information.
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:
LINE-
the terminal line or access port
MINUTES-
the total number of minutes that 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-
This column does not have much meaning anymore.
It used to list the number of times a port
was used to log a user on, but because
login can no longer be executed
explicitly to log in a new user,
this column should be identical with
# SESS.
# OFF-
This column reflects not just the number of times a user logs
off but also any interrupts that occur on that line.
Generally, interrupts occur on a port
the first time ttymon is invoked after the system
has been brought to multiuser state. This column is significant
when the # OFF exceeds
the # ON by a large factor.
This usually means the multiplexor, modem,
or cable is going bad,
or there is a bad connection somewhere.
The most common cause of this is an
unconnected cable dangling from the multiplexor.
During real time, monitor /var/adm/wtmp
because it is the file on which the connect accounting is based.
If the wtmp file grows rapidly, execute this command:
acctcon -l file < /var/adm/wtmp
You can see which tty line is the noisiest.
If the interrupting is occurring at a furious rate,
general system performance will be affected.
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