OpenSolaris

1. Community: Service Management Facility (smf(5))
   1. Announcements
   2. Discussions
   3. Converted services: manifests and methods
   4. scfdot: SMF Dependency Graph Generator
   5. Observers
   6. smf(5) FAQ
   7. Useful SMF Utilities
   8. SMF Community Facilitator and Contributors
   9. SMF Project Documents

OpenSolaris Community: Service Management Facility (smf(5))

Community Observers

• Enhanced SMF Profiles
  
• SMF Documentation
  
• Visual Panels
  

Self-healing services are delivered and managed on Solaris with the Service Management Facility (smf(5)). smf(5) augments the existing init.d(4) and inetd(1M) startup mechanisms, promoting the service to a first-class operating system object.

Administrators can now:

• view system-wide service status,
• manage services, not just their individual processes,
• access information about misconfigured/misbehaving services,
• enable and disable services persistently across upgrades and patches,
• delegate tasks to non-root users securely, and
• more reliably access the console in repair scenarios.

smf(5) gives developers:

• automated restart of services in dependency order due to administrative errors, software bugs, or uncorrectable hardware errors,
• a single API for service management, configuration, and observation,
• access to service-based resource management, and
• simplified boot-process debugging.

This is the home base for the SMF community: users, system administrators, service authors, application developers, and SMF infrastructure contributors.

Announcements

02 Jun 2008	SMF Test Suite
20 Oct 2005	scfdot - An SMF dependency graph generator

Blogs

sch - 2008.11: terminator is my favourite application

Dec 23, 11:49 AM

There's a lot of new applications in 2008.11— cheese is useful for testing your USB webcam and making self-portraits for avatars and profile pictures and I'm very intrigued by gobby —but I already ...

sch - 2008.11: A roundup

Dec 10, 10:18 PM

With the launch over, I took a few minutes to read through today's blog entries, and pulled out a list of the either technical or personally significant entries. If you're looking for the highlights, ...

sch - 2008.11: Live chat action

Dec 10, 11:26 AM

We're just wrapping up the live chat for the launch, with interested folks moving to freenode in #os200811 . Here's a quick photo of Danek, Dave, and Bart responding intently to the questions and ...

sch - 2008.11: Everyday projectors

Dec 10, 1:01 AM

I regularly use my for presentations and demonstrations, which in the past has involved some configuration gymnastics. If your laptop has NVIDIA graphics, the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" Preferences ...

sch - 2008.11: More ways to get it, and more ways to share it

Dec 10, 12:01 AM

As I did for 2008.05, I'll collect links to mirror sites here. These will also get links on the various download pages out there. Construction of 2008.11 was faster, more efficient, and generally ...