VERITAS Enterprise Administrator UserÆs Guide 5.0 (September 2006)

Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing the
VEA console
VEA features ..............................................................................................................7
VEA home page ..........................................................................................................9
Main window ...........................................................................................................10
Quick access bar ...............................................................................................10
Object tree and grid ..........................................................................................11
Menu bar ...........................................................................................................11
Toolbar ..............................................................................................................12
Status area ........................................................................................................12
Multiple selections ....................................................................................................13
Accessing tasks .........................................................................................................13
Task throttling ...................................................................................................13
Clearing finished tasks ......................................................................................14
Viewing task properties ....................................................................................14
Opening a new window ............................................................................................14
Chapter 2 Using the VEA
Setting up your system ..............................................................................................16
Starting VEA .............................................................................................................16
From a Windows client .....................................................................................16
From a UNIX client ..........................................................................................17
Startup profile ...................................................................................................17
Setting VEA preferences ..........................................................................................19
Setting connection preferences .........................................................................19
Setting general preferences ...............................................................................20
Setting advanced preferences ............................................................................21
Setting language preference ..............................................................................21
Setting the console view ...................................................................................21
Setting user accounts ........................................................................................22
Viewing objects and object properties .....................................................................22
Selecting objects ...............................................................................................23
Navigational View ............................................................................................24
Details View .....................................................................................................25
Console View ....................................................................................................25