Thank you very much! -----Original Message----- From: Darren J Moffat Sent: 05/23/08 18:33
> I think the SMF configuration for pen needs to support multiple instances. > > Why am I recommending this ? > > By having simple multi instance support the per protocol each protocol's > load balancer can be admnistered, monitored and configured independently. > > It is also my understanding that to support multiple different protocols > there would actually be multiple pen processes running - this naturally > leads to these being separate SMF instances of the same base service. > > For example I would expect the following: > > svc:/network/pen:http > svc:/network/pen:ftp > svc:/network/pen:smtp Good suggestion. Thanks. I agree. > > I came to this conclusion by looking at the pen site and the default > start script: http://siag.nu/pen/startscripts.shtml. This is basically > multi instance support via init.d startup scripts. I also looked over Yes and thanks. Though these scripts are not official ones. We can still take them as a good reference. > the pen.1 man page in the source file. > > My understanding from the above reference is that the pen program itself > does NOT read the /etc/pen.cf file by default (it does take -f > argument). In this case I highly recommend that the pen configuration > be via SMF properties able to be set per instance of svc:/network/pen/ > or at least that there is a per instance property for specifying the > config file location. Sorry. I am not quite understand the meaning of "specifying config file location"? Usually, smf instance don't take any arguments and it's config file is fixed somewhere. Do you mean I should set the each instance of pen config file in a separate place? Eg, "pen.http.conf" for http, "pen.ftp.conf" for ftp ...? > > > -- > Darren J Moffat > > > -- Best regards, Jia
