This disabling of the datalink-management service is for bfu from 
pre-dlmgmtd world to post-dlmgmtd world.  Do we still need to make this 
consideration or can we change the bfu script so that 
datalink-management is not disabled anymore?

Anurag

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: disabling datalink-management in bfu
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:16:06 -0700
From:   Cathy Zhou <[email protected]>
To:     Anurag S. Maskey <Anurag.Maskey at Sun.COM>
CC:     Eric.Cheng at Sun.COM, clearview at sun.com
References:     <4AE5EA41.5090006 at Sun.COM>



I believe this is for bfu from pre-dlmgmtd to post-dlmgmtd, in that 
case, there is no safe environment for dlmgmtd to run and we expect it 
to be only run after reboot.

I believe you can change the bfu script to skip that part if that is not 
the case (if this is a bfu from post-dlmgmtd to post-dlmgmtd).

Thanks
- Cathy
> Hi Cathy and Eric,
>
> bfu disables the datalink-management during the course of its 
> execution.  This has been presents NWAM phase 1 with problems as 
> described in bug
>
>        9947 NWAM causes network disruption when BFUing over NFS - 
> hanging BFU
>       http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9947
>
> The summary is that datalink-management is disabled during the course 
> of bfu.  This disrupts the network as NWAM is told that links don't 
> exist and it tears things down.
>
> I did some investigation and found the cause of the disabling.  I 
> wrote it out at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9947#c6.
>
> Is there a specific reason why the datalink-management service has to 
> be disabled during bfu?  If not, the fix would simply be to call 
> smf_import_service() with just the dlmgmt.xml manifest.
>
> Thanks,
> Anurag
>

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