Since Apache2 is an SMF service in Solaris 10, enabling SSH is about modifying a property of the Apache2 service in the SMF repository… And using “openssl” for key/certificate management.
Problem Statement:
I am trying to login through Solaris[TM] 10 console but there is no login
prompt. When I run ’svcs -l console-login’ all dependencies are online, it’s
enabled but the ’state’ is ‘offline’.
Bernd Schemmer started asking good questions about SMF in the SMF community some weeks ago. He already compiled a huge amount of information that he shares in a document called My own little SMF FAQ. I’ll go there whenever I’ll want to look for details on SMF from now on…
Finally a document aggregates the SMF information that was disseminated everywhere on the internet. This very good document from Rob Romack covers the following topic :
- SMF basics
- SMF components
- Example SMF Manifest for a new service, including a description of all the existing attributes ( require_all, … )
- SMF at boot time + SMF and milestones (the one area that will likely trigger a bunch of calls to Sun Support )
- The funny demonstration of the fact that the SMF engine is tracking services with cycling dependencies
- An original use of the dependency system that would allow somebody to login as root only if the configured name service is not available
T: SMF, OpenSolaris, Solaris 10
Sun is not known to be a great developer of GUI applications. The best example is probably the unlikely suite of administration tools offered to Solaris sysadmins along the years. Now that “admintool” is a thing of the past (as of Solaris 10) and considering that the Solaris Management Console is not significantly better, we are left with this sad conclusion : managing Solaris with a GUI is a pain –> managing Solaris is impossible if you are not a sysadmin.
The good news is that a new OpenSolaris project has been created to make Solaris configuration by end-users easier : it is called Project Visual Panels and looks promising.
Since the underlying storage is provided by the SMF data store, it looks like the graphical Solaris “registry” is on its way. Let’s see if Solaris can do it better than Windows…
Go to the project page
Go to the preliminary screeshots of the GUI
Quick and working.
scfdot is a new tool capable of representing the service graph of SMF services in a variety of formats. An example graph and all the necessary information is available in the opensolaris website.
Go to the scfdot opensolaris webpage
Liane Praza made her SMF presentation available for everyone now. It has become very well structured and very readable with examples and graphs. Useful as well to start converting old services to SMF.
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Additional doc to help writing/converting services.