The network-monitor (also referred to as the monitor in this chapter) is a fault manager daemon (fmd) transport module utility that you use to perform network diagnostics on your Oracle Solaris 11 system. The utility monitors network resources and reports conditions that might lead to limited or degraded network functionality. When the monitor detects an abnormal network condition, a report (called an ireport) is generated. You can retrieve ireports by using the fmdump command. See Retrieving Reports That Are Generated by the network-monitor Module. The monitor does not perform any further diagnosis of the error condition, nor does it perform any additional recovery actions. See the network-diagnostics(4) man page for more details.
The monitor is controlled by property values that are stored in the svc:/network/diagnostics Service Management Facility (SMF) service. See Controlling the Use of Probes Through the svc:/network/diagnostics SMF Service for more details.