Tom Whitten writes: > 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
Dan, In looking at the code for svcs, it appears that the messages that are printed via svcs -xv are constructed by svcs based on an analysis of information in the repository. In other words, I could find no way for a service instance to set service instance specific information for display by svcs -xv. You can of course write this information to the service specifice log (/var/svc/log/service:instance.log). svc.startd will set stdout and stderr of the methods that it starts to point to this file, and svcs -xv displays the name of this log. tom
