Best practices for starting Weblogic at boot?

Question

I need to set up a Solaris10/X86 VM instance to start up WebLogic (AdminServer and NodeManager) at boot. In the past, I've done things like this in the "rc" scripts. After a cursory look through the Solaris 10 docs, I see references to "SMF" (Service Management Facility). Is it still better to do this in "rc" scripts, or is SMF a better way to do this? Since this is probably a common thing to do on Solaris boxes, is there a simple guide for setting this up?

Answer 1

Hi again!
I would use SMF. There are several advantages of SMF, for example you can create dependencies, so that your WebLogic service starts after network is configured and/or mountpoints, or anything you like.
You can also do basic checks, such check for configuration files and such.
Also its faster and allows you to configure permissions for administrative users and such.
Not to mention that it monitors the processes and restarts them if needed.
Its also easier to administer once you get used to it.
I generally find it easy to look at an example SMF and just modify it (you can find some under /var/svc/manifest), but i found a tutorial here:
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/4149-Solaris-Features-Service-Management-Facility.html
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