SUMMARY: Monitoring the usage of a specific program

From: Bernt Christandl <beb_at_xray.mpe.mpg.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 10:45:21 +0100

Hello managers,

i've asked:
>our boss has another good idea (and i have no solution, yet):
>
>We have several licences for several program-packages and he wants me
>to tell him, how often those packages are used (e.g. IDL, NAG,
>Mathematica, ...) - and what about free packages, that are installed,
>but need no license (e.g. perl, tex, ... ;-)
>
>The first step i could think of, is to write wrappers and make such
>logs myself, but i'm sure other solutions exist, even if i don't know
>about them yet. What would you recommend?

and got several fast responses. Thank you all for those!

-> If licenses are managed by "flexlm", then there should be a log-file
   somewhere (typically flexlm.log) with the relevant information.
   (Obviously i have a problem there: i can't find such a logfile here...)

-> On the other hand the unix accounting (try "apropos account")
   could be used for my purpose - if accounting is on...
   I erroneously thought, that this way i could only get information
   about cpu-, disk- and printer-usage, but obviously something like
   "sa -a" gives more and different informations.

Gavin Kreuiter <gavink_at_ust.co.za> wrote:
> If you can reboot soon, try "rcmgr set ACCOUNTING YES", reboot,
> /usr/sbin/acct/turnacct on
> then type a few commands
> then /usr/sbin/acct/turnacct off; /usr/sbin/acct/acctcms -a

I will try that soon...

Be welcome in this happy New Year and have a nice weekend!

Bernt Christandl

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