VERITAS Enterprise Administrator UserÆs Guide 5.0 (September 2006)

Chapter

Introducing the

VEA console

The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Console displays data about application

objects and connectivity in graphical form and provides a user interface for the many tools

and functions.

Before using the VEA GUI, you should familiarize yourself with the following

introductory topics:

■ VEA features

■ VEA home page

■ Main window

VEA features

You use the VEA to administer disks, volumes, and file systems on local or remote

machines.

VEA consists of a server and a client. The server runs on a machine that is running the

application to be monitored, such as VxVM. The client runs on Windows, HP, Linux,

Solaris, and AIX machines that support the Java Runtime Environment.

VEA provides the following features:

■ Accessibility - Using the Mouse and Keyboard

Accelerators and mnemonics are provided as alternatives to using the mouse (refer to

the VEA online help for more information).

■ Ease of Use

The task-based user interface provides access to tasks through menus or a task list.

Administrators can easily navigate and configure their systems, and browse through

all of the objects on the system or view detailed information about a specific object.