Well the Solaris Boot Camp came to Dallas and it was a very cool thing, and Bob is a cool guy and was nice to meet. Anyone that can cram that much information into that small amount of time deserves some respect. Some things I learned from Bob (and some I forgot about):

FMA features like fmadm, fmstat

boot -m milestone=milestone allows you to boot to a specific milestone

boot -m milestone=all boots all milestones

boot -m milestone=none which is useful in reparing a system that have problems booting early

boot -m verbose will print a line of information at boot when every service is started

Change your default run level:
(To change to another run-level just skip the -d part)

svcadm milestone -d milestone/single-user:default

svc:/milestone/single-user:default is runlevel S

svc:/milestone/multi-user:default is runlevel 2

svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default is runlevel 3

If you look at an FMRI entry:
svc://localhost/network/login:rlogin
notice the localhost part.. the word is eventually we’ll be able to use svc://someotherhost/network/login:rlogin

SMF service “unintialized” means that it didn’t start due to incomplete initialization (check sysidconfig, zlogin -C, NFS question)

SMF service “offline” means its tried to start but its dependencies weren’t met.

SMF service “disabled” means its off.

SMF service “maintenance” means error must be resolved by admin. check log.

SMF service “degraded” means its running at limited capacity in comparison to normal operation.

Cool presentation Bob, and let me know when the Sun Developers Day comes.

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