Veritas™ Enterprise Administrator 5.0.1 User's Guide

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator
console ............................................................................ 11
About the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console ........................... 11
VEA features ............................................................................... 12
Veritas Enterprise Administrator home page ..................................... 13
Main window ............................................................................... 14
Quick access bar .................................................................... 15
Object tree and grid ................................................................ 15
Menu bar .............................................................................. 16
Toolbar ................................................................................ 17
Status area ............................................................................ 17
Multiple selections ....................................................................... 18
Accessing tasks ............................................................................ 18
Task throttling ...................................................................... 18
Clearing finished tasks ............................................................ 18
Viewing task properties ........................................................... 18
Opening a new window .................................................................. 18
Chapter 2 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator ......................... 21
About Veritas Enterprise Administrator ........................................... 22
Setting up your system .................................................................. 22
Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator ........................................ 22
From a Windows client ............................................................ 23
From a UNIX client ................................................................. 23
Startup profile ....................................................................... 24
Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences ......................... 25
Setting connection preferences ................................................. 26
Setting general preferences ..................................................... 27
Setting advanced preferences ................................................... 27
Setting language preference ..................................................... 27
Setting the console view .......................................................... 28
Setting user accounts .............................................................. 29
Viewing objects and object properties .............................................. 29
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