Service Management Facility has many features which helps to manage various services. Apart from that there are many commands which helps to get quick access on the services.

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Managing Service Management with svcadm
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svcadm services is used to manage the services by starting, stopping or restoring services

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bash-3.2# which svcadm    #check where is the file located

/usr/sbin/svcadm

bash-3.2# svcs -a | grep milestone

disabled       Mar_13   svc:/milestone/patching:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/name-services:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/network:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/devices:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/single-user:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/sysconfig:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/multi-user:default

online         Mar_13   svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default

 svcs -a | grep online  #list of online services

 svcs -a | grep online | wc -l #number of online service

 bash-3.2# svcadm disable sendmail #disabling the sendmail service

bash-3.2# echo $?

0

 bash-3.2# svcs -a | grep smtp  # checking status of the smtp service

disabled       17:11:11 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail

bash-3.2# ps -ef | grep -i sendmail    # shows service disabled from your current user

bash-3.2# echo $?     #returns value other than 0 which means last transaction was unsuccessful.

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Most common commands used with svcadm
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svcadm disable FMRI

svcadm disable -s FMRI    #stops the service instance

svcadm disable -s sendmail    #stops the default service instance

svcadm disable -t FMRI    #effects temprary disable till the next reboot

svcadm -x | grep sendmail    #check the current status of the send mail with description

svcadm -l | grep sendmail    #shows the full status of the service.

svcadm enable FMRI

svcadm enable sendmail    #this can be any unique portion of the FMRI which system recognizes.

Note: svcadm delegates the service management to default restarter i.e svc.start.d

svcadm enable -t FMRI    #enables FMRI for the current session, after reboot the service won’t enable and running

svcadm enable -r FMRI    #enables ALL the dependencies of the FMRI

svcadm enable -s FMRI    #enables all the instances if you have multi sessions.

svcadm -v refresh smtp    #rereads the action.

svcadm -v restart smtp     #restarts the service with new PID.

svc – l grep smtp     #check the service was restarted time and current time.

tail /var/svc/log/network-smtp: sendmail.log   #gives the log file of the restart done

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