You must become an administrator who is assigned the Device Security rights profile to perform these actions. For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.3.
To enable the device allocation service and verify that the service is enabled:
# svcadm enable svc:/system/device/allocate # svcs -x allocate svc:/system/device/allocate:default (device allocation) State: online since September 10, 2011 01:10:11 PM PDT See: allocate(1) See: deallocate(1) See: list_devices(1) See: device_allocate(1M) See: mkdevalloc(1M) See: mkdevmaps(1M) See: dminfo(1M) See: device_maps(4) See: /var/svc/log/system-device-allocate:default.log Impact: None.
To disable the device allocation service:
# svcadm disable device/allocate