solaris 10 services debugging tips

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985


http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5rl#hic

You can also view the relationships between services and processes using svcs -p, for both SMF services and legacy init.d scripts.

• Makes it easy to debug and ask questions about services by providing an explanation of why a service isn't running by using svcs -x. Also, this process is eased by individual and persistent log files for each service.

See the service_bundle(4) man page for a complete description of the contents of the SMF manifests. If you need to change the properties of a service, see the svccfg(1M) or inetadm(1M) man pages.

Service Configuration Repository

The service configuration repository stores persistent configuration information as well as SMF runtime data for services. The repository is distributed among local memory and local files. SMF is designed so that eventually, service data can be represented in the network directory service. The network directory service is not yet available. The data in the service configuration repository allows for the sharing of configuration information and administrative simplicity across many Solaris instances. The service configuration repository can only be manipulated or queried using SMF interfaces. For more information about manipulating and accessing the repository, see the svccfg(1M) and svcprop(1) man pages. The service configuration repository daemon is covered in the svc.configd(1M) man page. The service configuration library is documented in the libscf(3LIB) man page.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/fddwo?a=view

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5sg?a=view

How to Restore a Service That Is in the Maintenance State

1. Become superuser or assume a role that includes the Service Management rights profile.

   Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Determine if any process that are dependent to the service have not stopped.

   Normally, when a service instance is in a maintenance state, all processes associated with that instance have stopped. However, you should make sure before you proceed. The following command lists all of the processes that are associated with a service instance as well as the PIDs for those processes.

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