Quoth Jim Hall on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:48:06AM -0800: > I see what your saying. SMF would have a generic framework that would take > URL syntax to fetch a config file. svcadm getconf <svcname>. Then the > manifest would point to where to get the file. It would also be great if SMF > could manage conditions when it couldn't fetch the configuration file > (use a cached copy). Or maybe use a local and remote config file.
Are you talking about fetching configuration from the Internet? > Also consider the use of a Kerberos enabled web server that comes with > Solaris 10 > now as the config repository so a mechanism could exist for a secure fetch of > configuration information. > > This would rock. And give users an easy centralized management solution. We want to provide centralized management, but our current idea is to do so in svc.configd, transparent to libscf clients. That would allow us to better intergate with the rest of SMF. David
