RE: cfservd under Solaris 10 SMF

[Young, Darren]

Beautiful, you just saved me learning all about SMF manifests for the
time. Many many thanks.

Question, doesn't it need to be imported via an svccfg import 'file'
before it can be controlled?

Probably want to make sure people know that the cfservd_ctl scripts has
to be executable.

Also, the cfservd_ctl scriptie works fine on it's own, however it fails
to start on my 10 system and when I try to clear maintenance on it:

Feb  9 10:46:44 vcs01 svc.startd[7]: [ID 652011 daemon.warning]
svc:/application/cfservd:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/cfservd_ctl
start" failed with exit status 137.
Feb  9 10:46:44 vcs01 svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error]
application/cfservd:default failed

>       A search of the help-cfengine and bug-cfengine archives for the 
> acronym "SMF", as in "Solaris 10 Service Management Facility" 
> turns up 
> very little. SMF is a replacement for the familiar system of 
> rc scripts, 
> rc.d directories, and run-levels in earlier Solaris and most 
> other Unix 
> versions. The folks at Sun Microsystems go on at length about it's 
> superior reliability & fault tolerance, finer granularity, 
> etc., but one 
> of it's disadvantages is that you have to develop a "Service Manifest"
> XML file to describe each service under SMF manaagement, and 
> install them 
> to be read at boot time.
> 
>       My organization is installing cfengine to manage alot 
> of Solaris 
> and Linux (and some old DEC alpha) machines, and eventually Mac and 
> Windows systems also. Here is a service manifest for cfservd 
> that seems to 
> work. It registers cservd under SMF, starts it at boot, and 
> allows me to 
> monitor and control cfservd via the "svcs" and "svcadm" commands:
>