zutil

node-zutil is a small library specific to SunOS/Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS that provides a wrapper over all three APIs in zone.h and one from libzonecfg.h.

"libzonecfg" is not documented in illumos and hence (IIUC) considered "unstable". That's a significant reason why bindings for more of its API is not provided here.

Version 2 of this lib is a significant departure from earlier versions. See the changelog entry.

Usage

Assuming "5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b" is your current zone.

> var zutil = require('zutil')

From zone.h:

> id =  zutil.getzoneid()               // get your current zone numeric ID
403

> zonename = zutil.getzonenamebyid(id)  // get the zonename from a zone ID
'5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b'

> zutil.getzoneidbyname(zonename)
403

As a convenience, because working zone name is more common, this API is added by this module:

> zutil.getzonename()
'5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b'

From libzonecfg.h:

> zutil.getzonestate('5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b')
'running'

Install

npm install zutil

Reference

getzoneid()

Gets the integer zone ID for the current process. In the global zone the id is zero (0).

getzonenamebyid(<id>)

Gets the string zonename for the given zone id.

Parameters

• id - Integer zone id.

Examples

> zutil.getzonenamebyid(403)
'5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b'

getzoneidbyname(<zonename>)

Gets the integer zone id from the zonename.

Parameters

• zonename - String zone name. Typically on SmartOS this is 'global' or a UUID.

Examples

> zutil.getzoneidbyname('5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b')
403

getzonename()

A convenience function that gets the current zonename.

Examples

> zutil.getzonename()
'5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b'

getzonestate(<zonename>)

Gets the zone state string (e.g. "running", "configured") for the given zonename string. Throws an Error on any failure. If you are in a non-global zone, you may only get a successful result for the current zone. Other zones will appear to not exist.

At the time of writing the possible zone state strings in illumos are the ZONE_STATE_STR_... vars defined here plus "unknown".

As stated above, "libzonecfg" is undocumented. This function name is made up. It combines the C zone_get_state and zone_state_str functions.

Parameters

• zonename - String zone name. Typically on SmartOS this is 'global' or a UUID.

Examples

> zutil.getzonestate('5d4f7599-a991-6b35-dd44-d91936957a6b')
'running'

> zutil.getzonestate('global')      # errors if no in the global zone
Error: could not get zone "global" state: No such zone configured
    at Error (native)
    ...

> zutil.getzonestate('nosuchzone')
Error: could not get zone "nosuchzone" state: No such zone configured
    at Error (native)
    ...

Development

npm install

Note: If you are running as root you will see this warning (see npm/npm#3497):

npm WARN lifecycle zonecfg@1.0.0~install: cannot run in wd zonecfg@1.0.0 node-gyp rebuild (wd=...)

You then need to use:

npm install --unsafe-perm

License

MIT.