Troubleshooting Solaris Zones

If you are experiencing problems managing your Solaris zones through the provisioning system, messages will likely appear on the screen to tell you that a problem exists.

For example, if you try to create a local zone for a target host that is not known to be a global zone, then you see a message similar to the following:

Problems encountered during plan run or preflight

The plan (or preflight) "/system/autogen/Container-inst-create-1098225529078" 
finished with 1 failed host(s).

The specified target host "masterserver" was not in the required host set 
"com.sun.solaris#global_zones" for component "/com/sun/solaris/Container".

Although the message in this example is easily deciphered, not all messages are this straightforward. To find out more information about the specific problem, follow the Details links.