[Info-vax] audit and accounting data into tabular or cross-platform format

[Rich Jordan]

On Aug 17, 6:11 pm, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> A customer wants us to be able to generate reports on various data
> from accounting and audit records (and actually some merging data from
> both).  I suppose we could put together programs that parse the output
> data either from ANALYZE/AUDIT and ACCOUNTING commands or (for the
> former) using $FORMAT_AUDIT and doing the parsing within the program
> generating the output.  I'm wondering if someone has already done this
> though.
>
> Any freeware/cheapware way to either dump to XML/CSV format so some
> reporting package can read it (or DB import it for that purpose) or
> freeform more user friendly reports direct from the two data files?  I
> was surprised not to see something along those lines in freeware, so
> maybe its a bigger task than it seems.
>
> Budget for this is somewhere between nil and a moderately good steak dinner, so
> expensive commercial products are unfortunately not an option.
>
> Thanks.

To forestall requests for more detailed info: OpenVMS V8.3-1H1 on an
Itanium RX2660, class 1 and 2  ECOs installed up to June 2011 (waiting
for downtime for the next update cycle).

Thanks again.