SMF manifest go to maintenace mode

I wrote the very simple manifest file to set 'ndd' parameter like
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 42767
SMF service 'ndd' I created go to maintenace mode, I could not go online mode. how can I go to online mode?
Thank you for your help.
-Yong
# svcs ndd
STATE STIME FMRI
maintenance 19:21:20 svc:/network/ndd:default
Below is my manifest file for 'ndd' service.
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM '/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1'>

<service_bundle type='manifest' name='ndd'>
<service
name='network/ndd'
type='service'
version='1'>
<exec_method
type='method'
name='start'
exec='/lib/svc/method/nddss %m'
timeout_seconds='10'>
<method_context>
<method_credential user='root' group='root' />
</method_context>
</exec_method>
<exec_method
type='method'
name='restart'
exec='/lib/svc/method/nddss %m'
timeout_seconds='10'>
<method_context>
<method_credential user='root' group='root' />
</method_context>
</exec_method>
<instance name='default' enabled='true'/>
</service>
</service_bundle>

Try adding
<dependency
         name='fs'
         grouping='require_all'
         restart_on='none'
         type='service'>
          <service_fmri value='svc:/system/filesystem/minimal' />
     </dependency>
     <dependency
         name='net'
         grouping='require_all'
         restart_on='none'
         type='service'>
          <service_fmri value='svc:/network/initial' />
     </dependency>

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CONFIGURATION
WLC1
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redundancy-management            1    100      169.6.200.10    Static No     No
redundancy-port                  -    untagged 169.254.200.10 Static No     No
service-port                     N/A N/A      3.3.3.3         Static No     No
virtual                          N/A N/A      1.1.1.1         Static No     No
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WLC2
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redundancy-management            1    100      169.6.200.22    Static No     No
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Redundancy Management IP Address................. 169.6.200.10
Peer Redundancy Management IP Address............ 169.6.200.22
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Peer Redundancy Port IP Address.................. 169.254.200.22
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Maintenance Mode = Enabled
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Redundancy Management IP Address................. 169.6.200.22
Peer Redundancy Management IP Address............ 169.6.200.10
Redundancy Port IP Address....................... 169.254.200.22
Peer Redundancy Port IP Address.................. 169.254.200.10
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ok
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CSCug85798
There is a bug description with the issue you are experiencing.
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"After the WLCs are configured with Redundancy Management and Peer Redundancy Management
IP Addresses and Redundant Units are configured, it is time to enable SSO. It is important to make
sure that physical connections are up between both the controllers (that is, both the WLCs are
connected back to back via the Redundant Port using an Ethernet cable) and the uplink is also
connected to the infrastructure switch and the gateway is reachable from both the WLCs before SSO
is enabled.
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per the configuration via Redundant Port. If the WLCs cannot reach each other via Redundant Port
or via the Redundant Management Interface, the WLC configured as Secondary may go in to
Maintenance Mode. Maintenance Mode is discussed later in this document."
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svc:/network/http:apache2 (Apache 2 HTTP server)
State: maintenance since Tue Apr 28 15:41:45 2009
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q1: should that script exit with 0 immediately after process is started or
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The script should exit with 0 as soon as the service is ready to serve requests.
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After your start method exits with 0, svc.startd should mark your service as "online", and then it won't execute your start method even if the user runs "svcadm enable" again.
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When I use the following Powershell Script with SCOM 2012....
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h2. Explanation
I compiled [Nagios 3.2.0|http://www.nagios.org/] manually, and created a SMF manifest and method file, based on the [OpenCSW supplied files for Nagios|http://www.opencsw.org/packages/nagios]. The method file is based on [what the Nagios guys supply|http://pastebin.ca/1577792] , but [changed a little|http://pastebin.ca/diff.php?id1=1577792&id2=1577793] .
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If you have a look at the method file, you'll find that I dump the environment with env to a file. When I login as root and set the environment variables to exactly those values and remove any other additional variables, I can run the method / init script just fine; the nagios process doesn't core dump.
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Why does the process dump core, when it's run by SMF?
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--($ ~)-- LC_ALL=C coreadm
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I'm on Solaris 10 5/09 Sparc.
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*[svccfg export nagios|http://pastebin.ca/1577787]*
*[Method file /opt/local/nagios-3.2.0/method/nagios|http://pastebin.ca/1577793]*

There's no such directory as "/var/crash":
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drwxr-xr-x    4 root     sys             4 Sep 21 14:03 /var/cache
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drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            2 Sep 24 13:14 /var/core
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     sys             3 Sep 21 14:03 /var/cronGranted, since when I posted that question and now, I booted the NGZ numerous times. But in a default installation of Solaris 10, that directory isn't removed during shutdown/boot, if it exist. At least it exists on my other servers, even if it is empty (eg. like that, on a different server:
--($ ~)-- ls -laR /var/crash/
/var/crash/:
total 3
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          512 Mai 19 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x   56 root     sys          1024 Dez 7 2008 ..
drwxrwx---    2 root     adm           512 Sep 22 2008 winds06
/var/crash/winds06:
total 2
drwxrwx---    2 root     adm           512 Sep 22 2008 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          512 Mai 19 2006 ..So, I'd say that the coredump has never been stored in /var/crash.
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Converse: If no coredump is created, why does Solaris "speak" about a coredump being created?

Jumpstart , smf and scripts on first boot

Could anyone help me I am trying to work out how which is the best way to apply patches and customizations on first boot of a new machine that has just been jumpstarted. Does anyone have a example of a service that runs once to allow me to do this?

I want to be able to not just add patches I need to
add packages make system changes I used to be able to
do this with /etc/rc2.d scripts but now its smf in
solaris 10 and I need to be able to make this changes
at run level 2 and then reboot.You can do it just like before. Put a script in /etc/rc2.d.
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SMF - start at boot time, but don't restart - possible?

I'm setting up a software package that has a number of background processes.
I've got SMF manifests created and imported for all of them, and they're working great for starting the processes at boot time, and doing the automatic restarts when one fails.
Here's my problem. It turns out that the users of this software want to be able to use the software's integrated process control methods to stop some of their processes. With the current configuration, they use the software's method to stop one of it's processes, and SMF promptly restarts it.
Is there a way to set up SMF managed software so that SMF starts it at boot time, but then doesn't care if stops later?
Richard

I'm not sure how it would be SMF "managed" in such a case. Obviously you want the management to be elsewhere.
You could use the "legacy" startup scripts in /etc/rcX.d. That will start a process and forget about it, just like pre-Solaris 10. You don't use manifests or have any other benefits of SMF.
If you do want SMF, I guess the question is how you want it to act..
When the users stop the processes, do you want SMF to say enabled or disabled? SMF does not track enabled processes by periodic polling, it does it by tracking contracts. This means that starting a process outside of SMF does not allow SMF to track it.
Darren

Sun Cluster and SMF

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Did you come across any products, who SMFied their product and how it impacts their cluster installations ?. Please provide details if you have any
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_D

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2) If for that application no standard Sun Cluster agent exists, then one would have the ability to leverage the new proxy SMF resource types coming with Sun Cluster 3.2. They would use the SMF manifest to start and stop the application. Note that by using this resource type you would not have any application fault monitoring.
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http://blogs.sun.com/SC/entry/making_smf_services_highly_available and
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2974/6n57pdk2b?a=view
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without success. The best I got ended in a message that it could not create a path
which mentioned sometrhing like "/.Failsafe .../" .
As far as I can remember there was 2 patches that required reboot.
But there was several other, and I really don't know which is "responsible"
for not allowing the system to boot.
It is my home PC, so I can't open a service request.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks
Pablo

Hi, thanks everybody for the interest.
The problem is still unsolved but got some progress.
To boot on single user was of no use, having 'failsafe'.
First thing tried was to remove the patches wwith "patchrm <patch_number>".
I had to fake some paths with links because root was now under /a.
Well that did an incomplete job on removing the patches.
That was before mdinaz iluminated me with the '-R /a' option.
At this point the boot still looped.
Then tried again with 'patchrm -R /a <patch_number>'.
That enebled to complete the jobs for some of the patches.
By then the boot still looped.
Having nothing better to do I installed the patch that originaly failed (139556-09).
Which happened to be a mega-patch with kernel upgrade.
After that the boot worked (yeah!), ... but ...
SMF did not. Apparently one of the patches I uninstalled (140900-01 if I remember well)
was a modification on SMF manifests.
So I think that the updated kernel can't read the SMF manifests.
Then the machine is up, but almost nothing works, no network, no automount of cdrom or USB drives, no X Windows.
But the data is still there :)
Again, beacause I have no official support I cannot download the patches from SunSolve.
Then I found that the Sol 10 u7 is already on the street.
So my plan is, unless I can get the patches, I will try to live Upgrade to update 7.
Those are the news.
Thanks to everybody again.
Regards
Pablo

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