Manifold helps you quickly and easily create Solaris SMF manifest XML files for your services by answering a few questions about how it needs to be configured.

Manifold requires Python and the Genshi template package.

Download/Install

Install using setuptools, just type:

$ easy_install  Manifold

Or download from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Manifold and install manually with:

$ python setup.py install

Example

Use manifold to create a manifest (XML) file for memcached:

$ manifold memcached.xml

The service category (example: 'site' or '/application/database') [site] 

The name of the service, which follows the service category
   (example: 'myapp') [] memcached

The version of the service manifest (example: '1') [1] 

The human readable name of the service
   (example: 'My service.') [] Memcached

Can this service run multiple instances (yes/no) [no] ? yes

Enter value for instance_name (example: default) [default] 

Full path to a config file; leave blank if no config file
  required (example: '/etc/myservice.conf') [] 

The full command to start the service; may contain
  '%{config_file}' to substitute the configuration file
   (example: '/usr/bin/myservice %{config_file}') [] /opt/memcached/bin/memcached -d

The full command to stop the service; may specify ':kill' to let
  SMF kill the service processes automatically
   (example: '/usr/bin/myservice_ctl stop' or ':kill' to let SMF kill
  the service processes automatically) [:kill] 

Choose a process management model:
  'wait'      : long-running process that runs in the foreground (default)
  'contract'  : long-running process that daemonizes or forks itself
                (i.e. start command returns immediately)
  'transient' : short-lived process, performs an action and ends quickly
   [wait] contract

Does this service depend on the network being ready (yes/no) [yes] ? 

Should the service be enabled by default (yes/no) [no] ? 

The user to change to when executing the
  start/stop/refresh methods (example: 'webservd') [] webservd

The group to change to when executing the
  start/stop/refresh methods (example: 'webservd') [] webservd

Manifest written to memcached.xml
You can validate the XML file with "svccfg validate memcached.xml"
And create the SMF service with "svccfg import memcached.xml"

View the manifest:

$ cat memcached.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">
<!--
        Created by Manifold
--><service_bundle type="manifest" name="memcached">

    <service name="site/memcached" type="service" version="1">

        
        
        

        <dependency name="network" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service">
            <service_fmri value="svc:/milestone/network:default"/>
        </dependency>


        <instance name="default" enabled="false">
            

            <method_context>
                <method_credential user="webservd" group="webservd"/>
            </method_context>

            <exec_method type="method" name="start" exec="/opt/memcached/bin/memcached -d" timeout_seconds="60"/>

            <exec_method type="method" name="stop" exec=":kill" timeout_seconds="60"/>

            <property_group name="startd" type="framework">
                
                
                <propval name="duration" type="astring" value="contract"/>
                <propval name="ignore_error" type="astring" value="core,signal"/>
            </property_group>

            <property_group name="application" type="application">
                
            </property_group>

        </instance>
        
        
        
        <stability value="Evolving"/>

        <template>
            <common_name>
                <loctext xml:lang="C">
                    Memcached
                </loctext>
            </common_name>
        </template>

    </service>

</service_bundle>

Use it to create the SMF service:

$ svccfg validate memcached.xml
$ sudo svccfg import memcached.xml 
$ svcs memcached
STATE          STIME    FMRI
disabled        9:52:18 svc:/site/memcached:default
$ sudo svcadm enable memcached
$ svcs memcached
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online          9:52:53 svc:/site/memcached:default
$ ps auxw | grep memcached
webservd 16098  0.0  0.1 2528 1248 ?        S 09:52:53  0:00 /opt/memcached/bin/memcached -d