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                                      Commands to check the OS services in SOLARIS 10



Service Management Facility(SMF)

The Service Management Facility (SMF) is a core component of the new Predictive Self-Healing set of technologies introduced in Solaris 10. With SMF, system administrators can use simple command line utilities to easily identify, observe, and manage both the services provided by the system and the system itself.


SMF has a limited yet powerful set of commands. Each command has several options which cover the tasks required to manage Solaris systems. The following table lists the SMF commands.

Command   -  Description
svcs        -      Reports service status svcadm  -     Used for service management: e.g., starting, stopping and restoring services EXAMPLE: my-system# svcs -a STATE         STIME      FMRI legacy_run    Apr_18     lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S51installupdates legacy_run    Apr_18     lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S47pppd legacy_run    Apr_18     lrc:/etc/rc2_d/S99audit legacy_run    Apr_18     lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S76snmpdx legacy_run    Apr_18     lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S90samba disabled      Apr_18     svc:/network/ipfilter:default disabled      Apr_18     svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default disabled      Apr_18     svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default disabled      Apr_18     svc:/application/print/server:default disabled      Apr_18     svc:/network/dhcp-server:default disabled      Apr_18     svc:/network/http:apache2 online        Apr_18     svc:/system/svc/restarter:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/pfil:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/physical:default online        Apr_18     svc:/system/identity:domain online        Apr_18     svc:/system/cryptosvc:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/inetd:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/telnet:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/ssh:default online        Apr_18     svc:/system/zones:default online        Apr_18     svc:/network/nfs/nlockmgr:default offline       Apr_18     svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default offline       Apr_18     svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default Displaying Individual Services my-system# svcs -a |grep ftp online         Jan_10   svc:/network/ftp:default 1   my-system# svcadm enable apache2 2       3                   To display its status, use the svcs command: 4             my-system# svcs http 5                   STATE       STIME     FMRI    online      11:26:46  svc:/network/http:apache2 Similarly we can disable and restart the services.