SCSA10-1 Objective 3.7 - Solaris Service Management Facility control of boot and shutdown
Solaris 10 includes the greatest changes in service management perhaps in the history of Solaris. The new Service Management Facilify (SMF) handles process startup, stopping, monitoring, and restarting, although the old legacy techniques of runtime control scripts still work. For the first few minutes, you may ask yourself why they did this to you, how could they, what mean people. After a few minutes, you’re more likely to come up with a song to sing in honor of your new friend, svccfg.
Use SMF or legacy commands and scripts to control both the boot and shutdown procedures.
The legacy structures to control system boot and shutdown are well documented. An overview of runtime control scripts and instructions for creating an rc script are available.
Bob Netherton from Sun has a great SMF bootcamp presentation in which he goes through all of the relevant background information about smf and a full example of converting a legacy service (MySQL) to SMF (which you shouldn’t need to learn for the exam).