When you use the svcadm command, the instance name is required only if you are running more than one instance of the service. For more information, see NIS and the Service Management Facility, or the svcadm (1M) man page.
For more information about obtaining the appropriate rights to perform specific tasks, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
# svcadm enable network/nis/domain # svcadm enable network/nis/server