I was thinking this morning about SMF and realized that it lacks a feature to export alerts or service state changes outside of the system. Such a mechanism would be useful in order to alert a NMS that a service has gone offline, online, or is in maintenance.
I may be wrong, but perhaps some integration with FMA might be in order here. I already use the FMA/SMA combo to send SNMP traps when an event that FMA knows about occurs, and this facility seems perfect for reporting a Fault that's emitted by SMF. Are there already plans to marry SMF and FMA in this way, and if not, would it be considered a good idea to do so? /dale
