Service Management Facilities, SMF, current and Future

Google Tech Talks June 13, 2007 ABSTRACT Liane Praza, the tech lead on Solaris Service Management Facility will talk about the current and future plans for SMF. The Service Management Facility has improved several aspects of the Solaris administrative model. Some of the most notable updates are: * Services are represented as first-class objects that can be viewed (using the new svcs(1) command) and managed (using svcadm(1M) and svccfg(1M)). * Failed services are automatically restarted in dependency order, whether they failed as the result of administrator error, software bug, or were affected by an uncorrectable hardware error. * More information is available about misconfigured or...