Introduction

Oracle Solaris 11 presents the Service Management Facility (SMF) as a main feature. This framework is responsible for administrating and monitoring all services and applications. SMF was introduced in Oracle Solaris 10, and it offers several possibilities that make our job easier by being responsible for several tasks, such as the following:

• Starting, stopping, and restarting services

• Monitoring services

• Discovering all service dependencies

• Troubleshooting services

• Providing an individual log for each available service

Usually, there are many services in each system, and they are organized by category, such as system, network, device, and application. Usually, a service only has an instance named default. However, a service can present more than one instance (for example, there can be more than one Oracle instance and more than one configured network interface, and this difference is highlighted in the reference to the service. This reference is called Fault Management Resource Identifier...