sar failed to get a tty devices activity report

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • sarXX did not contain tty devices activity report after migrating system onto other hardware or hypervisor.
  • sar -y command failed with the following error message.
Requested activities not available in file /var/log/sa/saXX

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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