I have freshly installed an application on solaris 5.10 . When checked through ps -ef | grep hyperic | grep agent, process are up and running . When checked the status through svcs hyperic-agent command, the output shows that the agent is in maintenance mode . Application is working fine and I dont have any issues with the application . Please help
There are several reasons that lead to that behavior:
Starter (start/exec property of service) returned status that is different from SMF_EXIT_OK (zero). Than you may check logs:
# svcs -x ssh
...
See: /var/svc/log/network-ssh:default.log
If you check logs, you may see following messages that means, starter script failed or incorrectly written:
[ Aug 11 18:40:30 Method "start" exited with status 96 ]
Another reason for such behavior is that service faults during while its working (i.e. one of processes coredumps or receives kill signal or all processes exits) as described here: https://blogs.oracle.com/lianep/entry/smf_5_fault_retry_models
The actual system that provides SMF facilities for monitoring that is System Contracts. You may determine contract ID of online service with svcs -v (field CTID):
# svcs -vp svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
STATE NSTATE STIME CTID FMRI
online - Apr_14 68 svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
Apr_14 1679 sendmail
Apr_14 1681 sendmail
Than watch events with ctwatch:
# ctwatch 68
CTID EVID CRIT ACK CTTYPE SUMMARY
68 28 crit no process contract empty
Than there are two options to handle that:
There is a real problem with service so it eventually faults. Than debug the application.
It is normal behavior of service, so you should edit and re-import your service manifest, to make SMF less paranoid. I.e. configure ignore_error and duration properties.