Monitoring SMF Services

The following tasks show how to monitor SMF services.

How to List the Status of a Service

This procedure can be used to show what services are running.

• Run the svcs command.

  Running this command without any options displays a status report of the service specified by the FMRI.

  % svcs -l FMRI

Example 19-1 Showing the Status of the rlogin Service

This example shows the status of a service that includes many contracts.

% svcs -l network/login:rlogin
fmri         svc:/network/login:rlogin
name         remote login
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   Thu Apr 28 14:10:48 2011
restarter    svc:/network/inetd:/default
contract_id  42325 41441 40776 40348 40282 40197 39025 38381 38053\
 33697 28625 24652 23689 15352 9889 7194 6576 6360 5387 1475 3015\
 6545 6612 9302 9662 10484 16254 19850 22512 23394 25876 26113 27326\
 34284 37939 38405 38972 39200 40503 40579 41129 41194

Example 19-2 Showing the Status of the sendmail Service

This example shows the status of a service that includes dependencies.

% svcs -l network/smtp:sendmail
fmri         svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
name         sendmail SMTP mail transfer agent
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   Thu Apr 28 14:10:37 2011
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  29462 
dependency   require_all/refresh file://localhost/etc/nsswitch.conf (-)
dependency   require_all/refresh file://localhost/etc/mail/sendmail.cf (-)
dependency   optional_all/none svc:/system/system-log (online)
dependency   require_all/refresh svc:/system/identity:domain (online)
dependency   require_all/refresh svc:/milestone/name-services (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/network/service (online)
dependency   require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local (online)

Example 19-3 Showing the Status of all Services

The following command lists all services that are installed on the system as well as the status of each service. The command displays those services that are disabled as well as those that are enabled.

% svcs -a

Example 19-4 Showing the Status of Services Controlled by inetd

The following command lists services that are controlled by inetd. Each service's FMRI is listed, along with the run state and whether the service is enabled or disabled.

% inetadm

How to Show Which Services Are Dependent on a Service Instance

This procedure shows how to determine which service instances depend on the specified service.

• Display the service dependents.

  % svcs -D FMRI

Example 19-5 Displaying the Service Instances That Are Dependent on the Multiuser Milestone

The following example shows how to determine which service instances are dependent on the multiuser milestone.

% svcs -D milestone/multi-user
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         Apr_08   svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default

How to Show Which Services a Service Is Dependent On

This procedure shows how to determine which services a specified service instance is dependent on.

• Display the service dependencies.

  % svcs -d FMRI

Example 19-6 Displaying the Service Instances That the Multiuser Milestone Is Dependent On

The following example shows the services instances that the multiuser milestone is dependent on.

% svcs -d milestone/multi-user:default
STATE          STIME    FMRI
disabled       Aug_24   svc:/platform/sun4u/sf880drd:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/milestone/single-user:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/utmp:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/system-log:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/system-log:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/rmtmpfiles:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/network/rpc/bind:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/milestone/name-services:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/filesystem/local:default
online         Aug_24   svc:/system/mdmonitor:default