A previous post showed how to install files. If you wanted to run a service from that package there are a few more steps.

Service Management Facility

The Service Management Facility provides a way to manage services in OmniOS. If you are running a service you installed from a package, this is the way to do it.

Steps to Package and Run a Service

We will need to complete a few steps to package up a service and deploy it with IPS.

• Create an SMF manifest that instructs SMF how to run our service

• Deploy the SMF manifest

• Start the service.

Optionally, the service can be modified to read SMF properties so that it can be configured through svccfg

Tools

Creating an Echo Server

Creating an SMF Manifest

A service manifest is an XML documents that contain the information required to run a command as a service. This would normally mean that you have to create a new XML document for each service. Thankfully there is the tool Manifold that can create an manifest with answers to the relevant questions.