Veritas Enterprise Administrator 5.0 User's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

29Using the VEA
Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains
Note: Entries for the user name and password must exist in the password file or
corresponding Network Information Name Service (NIS) table on the machine to
be administered.
Logon authentication
There are three authentication mechanisms by which a connection can be
established with the server.
■ Silent Logon (Windows platforms only): This happens when the server is
local; that is, the VEA client and server both are running on the same
machine. If the user has logged on with administrator privileges, then
username and password are not required. (The basic connection dialog box
is used.)
■ Native Logon: Username and password are required to authenticate the user.
(The expanded connection dialog box is used.)
■ DCOM authentication (Windows platforms only): If the user has logged in as
administrator on the domain, then username and password are not required
to authenticate the user (the basic connection box is expanded after
entering the server name and clicking OK), and the user is connected to the
server. The server needs to be started with administrator privileges for this
type of authentication.
If the user does not have administrator privileges, then the connection
takes place using the Native Logon mechanism.
Disconnecting from a host
The Disconnect procedure disconnects a host machine from the current VEA
session. When a host machine is disconnected, VEA cannot administer that
machine until a new connection is made.
1 Right-click the computer icon to be disconnected.
2 Select Disconnect from the file menu on the menu bar.
3 A confirmation dialog will appear, click Yes to end the remote connection.
4 The computer icon disappears from the left tree view.
If the connection is lost for any other reason, a message appears that indicates
the connection has been terminated, and the icon for that computer is removed
from the left tree view. You need to click OK to close the message box.
To restore access to a disconnected host machine, you must reconnect to the
host.