Another essential task for system administrators is to manage applications and system services by using the Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF). SMF enables you to define relationships between applications or services on your system. SMF also defines actions that can be invoked on a service.
Using SMF, you can display service information such as status, property values, or dependencies. You can modify property values for services and create custom properties. You can create a custom service or a custom service instance. You can also troubleshoot system services.
For instructions about managing services, see Managing System Services in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .