Automatically Restarting a Domain or Node

Agent

Ifyour domain or node agent is stopped unexpectedly (for example, if you need to restart your
machine),you can congure your system to automatically restart the domain or node agent.
ThisAppendix contains the following topics:
■“RestartingAutomatically on Solaris 10” on page 221
■“RestartingAutomatically Using inittab on Solaris 9 and Linux Platforms” on page 223
■“RestartingAutomatically on the Microsoft Windows Platform” on page 223
■“Securityfor Automatic Restarts” on page 225

Restarting Automatically on Solaris 10

Solaris10 users can use the command asadmin create-service to create a service that restarts
anode agent or Domain Administration Server (DAS). The service created uses the Solaris
ServiceManagement Facility (SMF).
Theprocess that a service starts depends on whether the service is to restart a DAS or a node
agent.
■Ifthe service is to restart a DAS, the process is asadmin start-domain.
■Ifthe service is to restart a node agent, the process is asadmin start-node-agent.
Theservice grants to the process the privileges of the user that runs the process. When you use
thecommand asadmin create-service to create an SMF service, the default user is the
superuser.If you require a dierent user to run the process, specify the user in
method_credential.
Ifyour process is to bind to a privileged port of the Solaris OS, the process requires the
net_privaddrprivilege. The privileged ports of the Solaris OS have a port numbers less than
1024.
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