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Preface

Part I Oracle Solaris Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

5.  Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)

Administering the Extended Accounting Facility (Task Map)

Using Extended Accounting Functionality

How to Activate Extended Accounting for Flows, Processes, Tasks, and Network Components

How to Display Extended Accounting Status

How to View Available Accounting Resources

How to Deactivate Process, Task, Flow, and Network Management Accounting

Using the Perl Interface to libexacct

How to Recursively Print the Contents of an exacct Object

How to Create a New Group Record and Write It to a File

How to Print the Contents of an exacct File

Example Output From Sun::Solaris::Exacct::Object->dump()

6.  Resource Controls (Overview)

7.  Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)

8.  Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)

9.  Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)

10.  Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)

11.  Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

Part II Oracle Solaris Zones

15.  Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones

16.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

17.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

18.  About Installing, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Overview)

19.  Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

20.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

21.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

22.  About Zone Migrations and the zonep2vchk Tool

23.  Migrating Oracle Solaris Systems and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

24.  About Automatic Installation and Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11.1 System With Zones Installed

25.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

26.  Administering Oracle Solaris Zones (Tasks)

27.  Configuring and Administering Immutable Zones

28.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Part III Oracle Solaris 10 Zones

29.  Introduction to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones

30.  Assessing an Oracle Solaris 10 System and Creating an Archive

31.  (Optional) Migrating an Oracle Solaris 10 native Non-Global Zone Into an Oracle Solaris 10 Zone

32.  Configuring the solaris10 Branded Zone

33.  Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone

34.  Booting a Zone, Logging in, and Zone Migration

Glossary

Index

Using Extended Accounting Functionality

Users can manage extended accounting (start accounting, stop accounting, and change accounting configuration parameters) if they have the appropriate rights profile for the accounting type to be managed:

How to Activate Extended Accounting for Flows, Processes, Tasks, and Network Components

To activate the extended accounting facility for tasks, processes, flows, and network components, use the acctadm command. The optional final parameter to acctadm indicates whether the command should act on the flow, process, system task, or network accounting components of the extended accounting facility.


Note - Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For information on how to create the role and assign the role to a user through the role-based access control (RBAC) feature of Oracle Solaris, see Part III, Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges, in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Security Services.


  1. Become root or assume an equivalent role.
  2. Activate extended accounting for processes.
    # acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/proc process
  3. Activate extended accounting for tasks.
    # acctadm -e extended,mstate -f /var/adm/exacct/task task
  4. Activate extended accounting for flows.
    # acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/flow flow
  5. Activate extended accounting for network.
    # acctadm -e extended -f /var/adm/exacct/net net

    Run acctadm on links and flows administered by the dladm and flowadm commands.

See Also

See acctadm(1M) for more information.

How to Display Extended Accounting Status

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

machine% acctadm
                 Task accounting: active
            Task accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/task
          Tracked task resources: extended
        Untracked task resources: none
              Process accounting: active
         Process accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/proc
       Tracked process resources: extended
     Untracked process resources: host
                 Flow accounting: active
            Flow accounting file: /var/adm/exacct/flow
          Tracked flow resources: extended
        Untracked flow resources: none

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


Note - 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 substantially more detail about the activities of the process than basic or extended records.


How to View Available Accounting Resources

Available resources can vary from system to system, and from platform to platform. Use the acctadm command with the -r option to view the accounting resource groups available on your system.

machine% acctadm -r
process:
extended pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,projid,taskid,ancpid,wait-status,zone,flag,
memory,mstatedisplays as one line
basic    pid,uid,gid,cpu,time,command,tty,flag
task:
extended taskid,projid,cpu,time,host,mstate,anctaskid,zone
basic    taskid,projid,cpu,time
flow:
extended 
saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,dsfield,nbytes,npkts,action,ctime,lseen,projid,uid
basic    saddr,daddr,sport,dport,proto,nbytes,npkts,action
net:
  extended name,devname,edest,vlan_tpid,vlan_tci,sap,cpuid, \
  priority,bwlimit,curtime,ibytes,obytes,ipkts,opks,ierrpkts \
  oerrpkts,saddr,daddr,sport,dport,protocol,dsfield
  basic    name,devname,edest,vlan_tpid,vlan_tci,sap,cpuid, \
  priority,bwlimit,curtime,ibytes,obytes,ipkts,opks,ierrpkts \
  oerrpkts

How to Deactivate Process, Task, Flow, and Network Management Accounting

To deactivate process, task, flow, and network accounting, turn off each of them individually by using the acctadm command with the -x option.

  1. Become root or assume an equivalent role.
  2. Turn off process accounting.
    # acctadm -x process 
  3. Turn off task accounting.
    # acctadm -x task
  4. Turn off flow accounting.
    # acctadm -x flow
  5. Turn off network management accounting.
    # acctadm -x net
  6. Verify that task accounting, process accounting, flow and network accounting have been turned off.
        # acctadm
                Task accounting: inactive
           Task accounting file: none
         Tracked task resources: none
       Untracked task resources: extended
             Process accounting: inactive
        Process accounting file: none
      Tracked process resources: none
    Untracked process resources: extended
                Flow accounting: inactive
           Flow accounting file: none
         Tracked flow resources: none
       Untracked flow resources: extended
                Net accounting: inactive
           Net accounting file: none
         Tracked Net resources: none
       Untracked Net resources: extended