I'm just tickled pink to sponsor this request for Dan McDonald. The
change looks entirely obvious to me, so I've marked it as "closed
approved automatic."
OpenSolaris currently lacks a standard, interoperable system
management tool. Fortunately, we are able to discern both the
requirements for such a tool and the overall design by just looking at
artifacts on other operating systems, so the architecture and top
level design needed are trivial.
This project provides SMIT for OpenSolaris. "SMIT" stands for "System
Modified by Invisible Things," but the project team isn't sure why.
The user/administrator interfaces are:
/usr/bin/smit [-C] [-D] [-m menu-entry] [-R alternate-root]
/usr/bin/smitty [-D] [-m menu-entry] [-R alternate-root]
/usr/bin/xsmit [-D] [-m menu-entry] [-R alternate-root]
"smitty" is equivalent to "smit -C". "xsmit" is an enhancement
designed by the project team, and is just a symlink to "smit." These
commands all bring up configuration menus, allowing the user (with
appropriate privileges) to modify system configuration by exec-ing
commands that he could otherwise learn about via the system man pages.
Menus to be delivered with the "smit" tool are not described in detail
here, but will include:
SMF FMRI management
Networking Interfaces
Dtrace
Zones
ZFS file systems and pools
SMIT is a system management tool but it's located in /usr/bin on other
systems, so we're placing it there on OpenSolaris as well for
familiarity reasons.
Other interfaces delivered by this project include:
/etc/objrepos - symlink to /etc/svc/
smit.log, - droppings left in current directory
smit.script
A desktop link for GNOME will be provided. The icon will depict a
stick figure frozen in mid-step.
The release binding is "Tight." The interfaces described are all
"Difficult."
Related OpenSolaris projects may include Visual Panels. The SMIT
project team is not in contact with that team, and doesn't expect
their agreement with this project, but would like to proceed anyway.
