2009/211 SMIT for OpenSolaris

[Matty]

I'm a bit perplexed by this:

"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."

Any reason the project team isn't working with the visual panels team
or soliciting their input?

Thanks,
- Ryan
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:55 AM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> 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."
>
>
>
> 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.
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