When I/O fencing is not up, the svcs command shows VxFEN as online (2492874)

Solaris SMF marks the service status based on the exit code of the start method for that service. The VxFEN start method executes the vxfen-startup script in the background and exits with code 0. Hence, if the vxfen-startup script subsequently exits with failure then this change is not propagated to SMF. This behavior causes the svcs command to show incorrect status for VxFEN.

Workaround: Use the vxfenadm command to verify that I/O fencing is running.