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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