Basics of Service Management Facility (SMF) on Oracle Solaris 11

• A software framework that manages the services on a system.
• Each service has a well-defined state and a relationship to other dependent services.
• Ability to run multiple instances of a given service and share common configuration.
• Configuration repository managed by svc.configd
• Each service described using a Fault Management Reousrce Indicator (FMRI)
• SMF framework always active on Oracle Solaris 11 - started and restarted through the default init process.

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Listing services

svcs
svcs -a         # Lists additional new service instances.
svcs *ftp*      # Searches for services containing *ftp*

Managing services

If change configuration file, need to restart service using svcadm enable/disable:

svcadm disable ftp
svcadm enable ftp
svcadm restart ftp

• Note that svcsadm restart does not commit property changes to the running snapshot and does not run the refesh method of the instance.

Troubleshooting system services

• Oracle Solaris 11.2: How to repair an instance that is in maintenance

svcs -xv svc:/network/ftp:default       # Troubleshoot the FTP server