Enabling or Disabling a Service

You can enable or disable a service when the following conditions are met:

• You are assigned the Service Management profile in the /etc/user_attr file.

• You are given local access to the SMF module by using es-config -M smf -l <username>. For more information about this, see Chapter 9, Sun Management Center Administration, in Sun Management Center 3.6.1 Installation and Configuration Guide.

• The FMRI of the selected service does not match the FMRI of the services in the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/smf-excl-d.dat file. If this file is empty, you can enable or disable any service.

By default, the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/smf-excl-d.dat file contains essential services such as Sun Management Center services, Physical or Logical network services, Milestone services, and Filesystem services. These services cannot be disabled through this module. You can delete the relevant entries in the smf-excl-d.dat file to disable these services.

If the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/smf-excl-d.dat file does not exist, you cannot enable or disable any service.

To Enable or Disable a Service

Ensure that you disable the appropriate service. If you disable the agent service, the application might hang. You will have to restart the agent from the command line.

1. Navigate through the topology or hierarchy view until you have accessed the Service Management Facility module.

2. Select a service.

3. To enable a service, select online from the Service State list.

4. To disable a service, select disabled from the Service State list.