Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Getting Started (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Using the VEA

The VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) enables you to access all hosts on your

network. It also provides task and setup functions that allow you to tailor your VEA

environment prior to performing storage management procedures on those hosts.

This chapter introduces you to:

◆ Setting Up Your System

◆ Starting VEA

◆ Viewing Objects and Object Properties

◆ Performing Tasks

◆ Running Tasks From the Menu Bar

◆ Running Tasks From a Popup Menu

◆ Setting Layout Preferences

◆ Setting General Preferences

◆ Using the Control Panel

◆ Viewing the Event Log

◆ Viewing the Task Log

◆ Connecting and Disconnecting a Host

◆ Viewing Different Products

◆ Printing Views

◆ Exiting the VEA Client

Setting Up Your System

VEA consists of a server (vxsvc) and a client (vea). You must install and run the VEA

server on a UNIX machine running VxVM. You can install and run the VEA client on any

Windows, HP, Linux, Solaris, or AIX machine that supports the Java Runtime

Environment.