[geeks] Solaris SMF remote dependencies?

[Phil Stracchino]

Hey folks,
A question for anyone who's dug into it more deeply than I have.  I know
a service manifest can contain dependencies such as network physical
layer is set up, X local service is running, Y local filesystem is
mounted.  Does anyone know if it's possible to create a remote
dependency such that service A on host X cannot start until service B on
host Y is running?

(Specific situation, if anyone's interested:  In this case, service A is
Bacula, and service B is MySQL.  Bacula is distributed across two hosts:
 the Director and the disk storage daemon on babylon4, the catalog DB
and the tape storage daemon on epsilon3.  I want to make sure that the
Bacula director is not started on babylon4 until MySQL and the tape SD
are up on epsilon3.)


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