Specifications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Solaris Porting Guide

Leveraging SMF Facilities in Oracle Solaris 11

The Oracle Solaris 11 SMF facility can be leveraged to do many new administrative tasks. For example,

many manual configuration tasks can be moved to SMF. This includes the migration of several system,

network, and naming service configurations to SMF.

The following key changes are introduced in the latest Oracle Solaris 11 release:

• The /etc/default/init file is now read-only on Oracle Solaris.

• Locale and time zone configuration has migrated to SMF. The

svc:/system/timezone:default SMF service is used to set a system’s time zone. Hence,

all changes to environment variables should be managed through the new

svc:/system/environment:init SMF service.

Note: To use the

svc:/system/environment:init SMF service, make sure that the

skip_init_upgrade property is set to true.

• A system’s identify (node name) is now configured through the config/nodename service

property of the svc:/system/identity:node SMF service.