Quoth Cathy Thomas on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:58:50PM -0800:
> My service (ipmievd) will not run if the local host does not have
> a BMC device available. ipmievd itself will return a 1 and give an
> error message that "no BMC is available".
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You currently have three options:
1. The start method detects that the BMC is unavailable (either by
itself or through the daemon) and reports a fatal error to SMF.
The service ends up in the maintenance state.
2. The start method detects that the BMC is unavailable and disables
the service. The service ends up in the disabled state.
3. Even though the daemon detects that there is no BMC device, it
stays running, presumably doing nothing. The start method reports
success and the sevice enters and stays "online".
Before I recommend one, can you explain what your daemon does? In
particular, why the BMC device is required and why anyone would want to
enable or disable it.
David
