I am moving off of my work on the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) to join the Service Management Facility (SMF) team, so I have a lot of new code to learn. In the past when I had to learn a new body of code, I would keep notes in a file that I could refer to as time went on. This time, however, in the spirit of Open Solaris, I'm going to try keeping my notes in a blog. To that end, I've created a new blogging category called Learning SMF.

Make no mistake, my ramblings in this category are not going to be a well thought out authoritative explanation of some aspect of SMF. In the future I hope to generate some of those in a separate blog category, but for now all that you get from me are the ramblings of an SMF rookie digging into the code for the first time. Probably some of the things that I write in this category will turn out to be wrong. For more informed discussions of SMF check out the blogs of the long time members of the team — Jonathan Adams, Stephen Hahn, Dave Powell, and Liane Praza (in alphabetical order).

My first SMF assignment is to add code to svc.configd(1M) to generate security audit events. So in subsequent blogs, I'll be looking at the code in on/usr/src/cmd/svc/configd/configd.c.

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