Installation on solaris now uses svc to start opennms immediately after installation. At this point in time it is not yet configured. If it's an upgrade there probably will be a mix of old and new configuration files.

Starting opennms with the default configuration or a configuration mix may have a lot of side-effects like adding unwanted nodes to the database, creating a lot of alarms etc.

To prevent this I would suppose the following patch to solaris/install/postinstall to remove the automatic startup:

diff --git a/solaris/install/postinstall b/solaris/install/postinstall
index be9fa7f..1b693ad 100644
— a/solaris/install/postinstall
+++ b/solaris/install/postinstall
@@ -26,5 +26,3 @@ else
fi

/usr/bin/su $INSTUSER -c "$BASEDIR/bin/install -dis" || exit 1
-
-/usr/sbin/svcadm enable $FMRI || exit 1