On 04/01/09 08:55 AM, James Carlson wrote: > 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." >
I'd like to change this to "Approved Conditional", pending alignment with both HPARC and IBMARC, as well as coordination with the MS kernel replacement project team. Please advise. > > > 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. >
