Managing Services (Overview)

This chapter provides an overview of the Service Management Facility (SMF). In addition, information that is related to run levels is provided.

This is a list of the overview information in this chapter.

• Introduction to SMF

• SMF Concepts

• SMF Administrative and Programming Interfaces

• SMF Components

• SMF Compatibility

• Run Levels

• /etc/inittab File

For information on the procedures associated with SMF, see Managing Services (Task Map). For information on the procedures associated with run levels, see Using Run Control Scripts (Task Map).