smf

Solaris 10 Services

There is a new feature to the way Solaris 10 handles services, this feature is called Service Management facility (SMF).
Terminology
Fault managed resource identifiers (FMRI) identifies services
            svc :/system/system- log:default

	svc:	Service type
	/system/system-log	Name
	:default	Instance

The repository is the source for all known services on the system, it imports the service manifest into the database and then never references the manifest again.
The manifest properties are the following and are contained in a xml file (see appendix A).

• Name of service
• Number of instances
• Start, stop and refresh methods
• Property groups
• Service model
• Fault handling
• Documentation template

A milestone is a predefined set of capabilities for a set of services, similar to a run level
File locations

SMF log files	/var/svc/log
SMF log files	/etc/svc/volatile
SMF manifests	/var/svc/manifest/*
SMF method	/lib/svc/method/*

Daemons

start svc daemon	svc.startd
svc configuration daemon	svc.configd

Service Commands   

Show the state of all services	svcs –a
Show detailed information	svcs –l
Show the dependencies	svcs –d
Show the dependents	svcs –D
show the processes of a service	svcs –p
Explain why the service failed	svcs –x
verbose information	svcs –v
Disable a service (stop)	svcadm disable
Enabled a service (start)	svcadm enable
restart a service	svcadm restart
Reread the config file (HUP)	svcadm refresh
Put service into maintenance/degrade mode	svcadm mark
Start a service to the desired milestone level	svcadm milestone
Show values for a given property	svcprop –p
show details from a snapshot	svcprop –s

INETD services commands

List all configured inetd services	inetadm
Detailed information on a inetd service	inetadm -l
enable a inetd service	inetadm -e
disable a inetd service	inetadm -d

Administration
If a service fails to start
            # svcs –xv
To modify the properties of an inetd service

# inetadm –m spray bind_addr=”192.168.0.1” # inetadm –l spray

Repair a corrupt repository using the default repository

Script	# /lib/svc/bin/ restore_repository          (follow the prompts) Note: all old repositories are in /etc/svc you can use an old one in place of the global
Manually	# pstop “ pgrep svc.startd” # kill svc.configd # cp /etc/svc/ repository.db /etc/svc/ repository.bad Global zone # cp /lib/svc/seed/ global.db /etc/svc/ repository.db # reboot Non-Global zone # cp /lib/svc/seed/ nonglobal.db /etc/svc/ repository.db # reboot (only reboot zone) Note: all old repositories are in /etc/svc you can use an old one in place of the global

Start service interactively during boot

Ok> boot –m milestone=none (login as root) # svcadm milestone –t all         (enable all services) # svcs –l                         (look for hanging services and check log files / var/svc/log) continue with normal boot procedures Other boot commands are: Ok> boot –m verbose               (verbose output) Ok> boot –m debug                  (very verbose output)

Manifests
To check the integrity of a manifest xml file
       # / usr/bin/xmllint mysvc.xml
To import your service manifest            
       # / usr/sbin/svccfg -v import / var/svc/manifest/site/mysvc.xml                                                                   
Appendix A – screen shots
List of services configured

# svcs legacy_run      Mar_02    lrc :/etc/rc3_d/S80mipagent legacy_run      Mar_02    lrc :/etc/rc3_d/S81volmgt legacy_run      Mar_02    lrc :/etc/rc3_d/S82initsma legacy_run      Mar_02    lrc :/etc/rc3_d/S84appserv legacy_run      Mar_02    lrc :/etc/rc3_d/S90samba online          Mar_02    svc:/system/svc/ restarter:default online          Mar_02    svc:/network/ pfil:default online          Mar_02    svc:/system/ filesystem/root:default online          Mar_02    svc:/network/ loopback:default online          Mar_02    svc:/milestone/name- services:default offline         Mar_02    svc:/application/print/ ipp-     listener:default offline         Mar_02    svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default

A detailed list of a service

# svcs –l sendmail fmri          svc:/network/ smtp:sendmail name          sendmail SMTP mail transfer agent enabled       true state         online next_state    none state_time    Thu 03 Mar 2005 07:05:07 AM GMT logfile       / var/svc/log/network-smtp:sendmail.log restarter     svc:/system/svc/ restarter:default contract_ id   216 dependency    require_all/refresh file://localhost/etc/mail/sendmail.cf (online) dependency    require_all/refresh file://localhost/etc/nsswitch.conf (online) dependency    optional_all/none svc:/system/ filesystem/autofs (online) dependency    require_all/none svc:/system/ filesystem/local (online) dependency    require_all/none svc:/network/service (online) dependency    require_all/refresh svc:/milestone/name-services (online) dependency    optional_all/refresh svc:/system/ identity:domain (online) dependency    optional_all/none svc:/system/system-log (online)