You do not need to capture Process Accounting data for Acquire to return useful information about your UNIX or Linux systems for basic reporting of performance and capacity. If you want to have more detailed information on the activity of users or commands, or if you intend to build Planner models you are strongly advised to turn on Process Accounting at least during the period you want to capture data, and turn it off again when you no longer need the extra data.
Precisely does not provide detailed instructions on turning on or off Process Accounting as they vary by operating system, and you may have specific requirements to follow in your organization. See the section at the end of this chapter for some more details and considerations. If you choose to capture Process Accounting data be aware of these additional tasks that are needed for Acquire to successfully capture that data.
Set the permissions for the pacct file – so that it can be read by user metron. Acquire reads the pacct file. We therefore recommend that you allocate the user metron to the same group, usually adm or root.
Note for Linux users
If the permissions on the pacct file are -rw------- (the default), then you will need to run the following command from the root user to allow the metron user to read the pacct file:
chmod g+rw /var/account/pacct
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Create a subdirectory named Metron.save.d in the directory containing the pacct file (usually /var/adm or /usr/adm on a UNIX system, or /var/account on a Linux system). This directory should be owned by metron, and have permissions 755. If your System Administrator determines that the pacct file should be placed elsewhere, be sure to make a note of the path to it.