SMF

SMF

Stands for Service Management Facility a new way of managing services in your Solaris Operating Environment.

Benefits:

• You can manually stop,start and restart services using proper procedures.
• You can establish and formalize dependency relationships between services.
• You can have a grip on system startup behavior and service status.
• You can have a structured mechanism for Fault Management of system services.
• You can get detailed information about misconfigured services with explaination as why the service was not running or misconfigured.
• You get individual log files for each service.

KEY TERM:

Service Identifier

Service Category

Service States

Milestones

Service Configuration Repository