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Accounting for Linux Applications

At the LInux level, installations will want to provide accounting for applications and processes by CPU. Storage and I/O are virtual and more difficult to charge.

The database extracts are very simple and look like the following, extracting by LInux application the server, application name, application process ID, and CPU seconds consumed.

 
EXTRACT:            ; First extract system data
 
columns ='10 10 10 8 8 8 8'
TITLE = ' STARTTIME  STOPTIME NODE      APPL        PID'   Pages'
TITLEc= '     CPU'
TITLE = '---------- --------- --------- -------  ------'   -----'
TITLEc= ' -------''
 
INTERVAL='SU'
CRITERIA='STARTTIME >= 080000'
CRITERIA='STOPTIME <= 170000'
CRITERIA='VSINAP.TOTCPU > 0 '
 
X = 'STARTTIME'
Y = 'STOPTIME'
Y ='NODE'
Y ='VSINAP.NAME'
Y ='VSINAP.ID  '
Y ='VSINAP.TOTCPU / 100'  ;Turn into CPU Seconds

The results of this extract then would look like the following showing hourly consumption by linux server. This would be input into installation accounting procedures.

Date    Time    STARTTIME STOPTIME  NODE      APPL        PID     CPU
                ---------- --------- --------- -------  ------ -------
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  *Totals       0     174
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  bash      26558      14
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  db2fmcd    8318      13
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  db2fmp     8558       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  db2sysc    8689       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  init          1      81
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  kernel        1       1
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  ksh       21432       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  oracle     5108      52
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  seosd      5678       4
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  snmpd      4606       5
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  sshd      26557       1
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0002  tnslsnr   21726       3
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  *Totals       0     223
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  auditd     3506       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  cdpmgr     2631       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  cron       3731       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  cupsd      3573       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  db2dasr    6398       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  db2fmcd    6337      16
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  db2fmd     6740       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  db2fmp    16319       1
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  db2sysc   16510      11
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  init          1       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  java      15807     174
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  kernel        1       2
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  lic98fd    3772       0
20081019 120000  120000    130000    LXSG0003  master     3709       0


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