Dan Groves writes: > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:28 -0400 > To: smf-discuss at opensolaris.org > From: Dan Groves <Daniel.Groves at sun.com> > Subject: [smf-discuss] Vanity naming, inconsistent SMF properties, > and maintenance mode > Cc: clearview-discuss <clearview-discuss at opensolaris.org> > > Hi, > > We're working on a problem in vanity naming about how to handle the case > where links stored in linkmgmtd's SMF repository get into state where > there are duplicate link entries. > > With vanity naming, we represent links as property groups named by the > link ID. Each property group contains the link attributes. The case > I'm thinking of is where we have two or more links each with different > IDs but with each link having the same name. For example, we'd have in > SMF property groups with names link1 and link2, and each one contains a > property called "name" with value "net0". > > When this occurs, we would like to put the service into a maintenance > state, and when the administrator does "svcs -xv linkmgmtd" see > something that indicates what went wrong. Is there a best practice for > this? If so, what is it? > > thanks, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > smf-discuss mailing list > smf-discuss at opensolaris.org
Dan, You can call smf_maintain_instance() to place an instance in the maintenance state. I'm still researching how svcs -xv determines what messages to display. I'll send a follow up mail when I get the figured out. tom
