Extended Accounting (Overview)

By using the project and task facilities that are described in Chapter 2, Projects and Tasks (Overview) to label and separate workloads, you can monitor resource consumption by each workload. You can use the extended accounting subsystem to capture a detailed set of resource consumption statistics on both processes and tasks.

The following topics are covered in this chapter.

• Introduction to Extended Accounting

• How Extended Accounting Works

• Extended Accounting Configuration

• Commands Used With Extended Accounting

• Perl Interface to libexacct

To begin using extended accounting, see How to Activate Extended Accounting for Processes, Tasks, and Flows.