I'm having some difficulty understanding whether I am seeing expected behavior or possibly a bug, either way, I'm a bit confused.
I have a service with one instance. I use scf_pg_create to create a new property group 'A' with one property '1'. If I then use svcprop to view all property groups and properties, I see property group 'A'/property '1' only on the parent service, not the instance. However, if I use svccfg import to reimport the manifest, the property group and the property I created, using scf_pg_create/scf_transaction_property_new, show up on the service instance using svcprop but when I issue a listpg on svccfg, that same property group does not display. A follow on question is do I need to call scf_pg_create on the instance? It appears that property groups and properties are not really inherited, they're somehow inherited for list purposes via svcprop (and I assume the library get interfaces but I haven't tried that yet) such that I would need to create the property group on the instance in addition to the parent service if properties on that instance only were expected to be modifiable by the admin. I guess I don't really understand the intent of how properties are meant to be managed, at the parent service level or the instance or both, particularly in cases where there is only always a single instance for a service. And if instances are intended as a way of modifying properties that only impact that instance, shouldn't the parent service property groups/properties be inherited by every instance? Perhaps I'm missing some configuration parameter on the parent service that would provide for inheritance? - John This message posted from opensolaris.org
