How to Enable Device Allocation

Before You Begin

You must become an administrator who is assigned the Device Security rights profile. For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

1. Enable the device allocation service and verify that the service is enabled.

   # svcadm enable svc:/system/device/allocate
   # svcs -x allocate
   svc:/system/device/allocate:default (device allocation)
   State: online since September 10, 2011 01:10:11 PM PDT
   See: allocate(1)
   See: deallocate(1)
   See: list_devices(1)
   See: device_allocate(1M)
   See: mkdevalloc(1M)
   See: mkdevmaps(1M)
   See: dminfo(1M)
   See: device_maps(4)
   See: /var/svc/log/system-device-allocate:default.log
   Impact: None.

2. To disable the device allocation service, use the disable subcommand.

   # svcadm disable device/allocate