This section defines terms that are used in the remainder of this guide. The following figure shows the primary components of the SMF framework. When you boot an image, SMF updates the service configuration repository if necessary, reads the repository data, and starts service instances that are enabled. In the following figure, libscf is the library interface that the restarters use to interact with the service configuration repository. Interaction between the service configuration repository and libscf library interfaces is managed by the svc.configd daemon. The svcs, svcprop, svcadm, and svccfg commands are the interface that administrators use to interact with the service configuration repository.
Figure 1-1 Service Management Facility Framework