The Oracle Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) framework manages system and application services. SMF manages critical system services essential to the working operation of the system and manages application services such as a database or Web server.
SMF replaces the use of configuration files for managing services and is the recommended mechanism to use to start applications. SMF replaces the init scripting start-up mechanism, inetd.conf configurations, and most rc?.d scripts.
This chapter describes:
Where to get more information about SMF
New features in this release
How to gain privileges you need to use some SMF commands