SMF Administrative and Programming Interfaces
This section introduces the interfaces that are available when you use SMF.
SMF Command-Line Administrative Utilities
SMF provides a set of command-line utilities that interact with SMF and accomplish
standard administrative tasks. The following utilities can be used to administer SMF.
Table 16-1 Service Management Facility Utilities
Command Name |
Function |
|---|
inetadm |
Provides
the ability to observe or configure services controlled by inetd |
svcadm |
Provides the ability
to perform common service management tasks, such as enabling, disabling, or restarting service
instances |
svccfg |
Provides the ability to display and manipulate the contents of the service configuration
repository |
svcprop |
Retrieves property values from the service configuration repository with a output format appropriate
for use in shell scripts |
svcs |
Gives detailed views of the service state of
all service instances in the service configuration repository |
Service Management Configuration Library Interfaces
SMF provides a set of programming interfaces that are used to interact with
the service configuration repository through the svc.configd daemon. This daemon is the arbiter
of all requests to the local repository datastores. A set of fundamental interfaces
is defined as the lowest level of interaction possible with services in the
service configuration repository. The interfaces provide access to all service configuration repository features
such as transactions and snapshots.
Many developers only need a set of common tasks to interact with
SMF. These tasks are implemented as convenience functions on top of the fundamental services
to ease the implementation burden.
