Solaris10 SMF

Service Management Facility

• Example of conversion of legacy: SMF Example
• How to create a SMF Manifest

Tools:

• svcadm
• svcs -a shows all services & statuses (good for grep)
• svcs -vx ... shows ones that are down
• Adding a service: e.g. nagios

 cp ./manifest/nagios-nrpe.xml /var/svc/manifest/network/
 cp ./method/nagios-nrpe /lib/svc/method/
 svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/network/nagios-nrpe.xml

• Delete a service:

 svccfg delete /nrpe:default

Logs:

• many logs in /var/svc/log