Uncovering Information About Services

Using SMF to uncover information about a service is easy. There are a couple of ways you can use SMF to do this.

See this guide for details about being reboot ready and what the various states mean.

In this topic:

At a Glance

This topic guides you through using Webmin or using shell commands to uncover information about services on a SmartMachine.

From Webmin

Start Virtualmin from https:/X.X.X.X:10000/
Select Webmin on the upper left
Under System select Service Management Facility Configuration
1. Any items which are in maintenance will appear at the top of the list
2. Any items which are offline appear in yellow below the maintenance items and above the online items

Command	Description
`svcs -a`	List all services for this SmartMachine, including disabled services.
`svcs -x`	List explanations for all services that are running but not enabled or services that are preventing another service from running.
`svcs -p NAME`	List all processes for the service you specify.