how to turn on or off FIREWALL in solaris 10

hi,
i am an oracle DBA and having problems with the starting of enterprise manager on solaris. one of solution is to check whether firewall is on or off

so i am new bie in solaris so kindly tell me how to check the firewall in solaris 10 and how to stop it and what are effects of such operations

kindly Guide

Regards

Janakors

To enable FW

svcadm enable svc:/network/ipfilter:default

To disable it

svcadm disable svc:/network/ipfilter:default
ipfstat -io

shows if ipf is running or not.