Veritas™ Enterprise Administrator 5.0.1 User's Guide

Setting connection preferences
The Connection tab allows you to set connection preferences.
Adding and removing favorite hosts
Favorites displays a list of hosts that will be connected to by default at the startup
of VEA if the username/password is saved for them. If the username /password
is not saved for a particular host, then this information will be prompted for at
the time of connection
Use the following procedure to add a host to Favorite Hosts.
To add a host to Favorite Hosts
1
Right click on any of the connected host nodes
2
Choose Add to Favorites from the popup menu.
Removing a host from favorite hosts
Use the following procedure to remove a host from Favorites.
To remove a host from Favorites
1
In the Preferences Favorites window, highlight the host to be removed.
2
Click on Remove.
Reconnecting hosts
By default, hosts under the Favorites are reconnected when logging on. That is,
Reconnect At Logon is set to Yes.
You can avoid a host being reconnected at startup by setting Reconnect At Logon
to No.
Adjusting the history settings
To adjust the history settings, type the number of servers (hosts) for which
information can be stored in the history file under Maximum Connections. The
default value is 10.
The maximum limit for the number of hosts for which information can be stored
is 99.
Press Apply to apply the changes, Reset to revert back the changes, OK to apply
and close the Preference window, Cancel to discard and close the Preference
window.
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