About the Zone SMF Instance Service State

The zone SMF instance service state is determined by the zone milestone/goals state. The milestone/goals goal service provides an unambiguous point where a system can be considered up and running.

The zones restarter is notified of the state of the milestone/goals service of each non-global zone that supports it. The zone SMF instance state of each non-global zone matches the state of its milestone/goals.

The zones delegated restarter can be instructed to ignore milestone/goals to move the zone SMF instance online, based on the success of the zoneadm boot command. If the boot operation fails, the zone SMF instance is placed in maintenance. This switch is controlled by the following SMF property group under the zones delegated restarter service:

PG name=config type=application
       config/track-zone-goals = true | false