Veritas Enterprise Administrator User's Guide HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-1505 Published: April 2011 Edition: 1.
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Contents Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console ............................................................................ 11 About the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console ........................... VEA features ............................................................................... Veritas Enterprise Administrator home page ..........
8 Contents Selecting objects .................................................................... Navigational view .................................................................. Details view .......................................................................... Console view ......................................................................... Tasks view ............................................................................ Properties of an object ........................................
Contents Dialog boxes ................................................................................ 48 Glossary ............................................................................................................... 53 Index ....................................................................................................................
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Chapter 1 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console ■ VEA features ■ Veritas Enterprise Administrator home page ■ Main window ■ Multiple selections ■ Accessing tasks ■ Opening a new window About the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Console displays data about application objects and connectivity in graphical form and provides a use
12 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console VEA features 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.
Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Veritas Enterprise Administrator home page Other views are application dependent. For example, when running VxVM: ■ The Disk View window displays a graphical view of volumes, disks, and other objects in a disk group. ■ The Volume View window displays a graphical view of the volumes on a host. ■ The Volume to Disk Mapping window shows the relationships between volumes and their underlying disks.
14 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Main window ■ Connect to a Host or Domain See “Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains” on page 33. ■ View or Edit VEA Preferences See “Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences” on page 25. ■ Manage User Profiles See “Managing user profiles” on page 40. ■ View Online Help Main window Once you are connected to a host, the VEA Main Window is displayed.
Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Main window Figure 1-2 Main window Quick access bar The quick access bar provides quick access to perspectives using the following icons: ■ System ■ Assistant ■ Logs ■ Control Panel Object tree and grid The VEA main window is divided into two main panes: ■ Left Pane (Object Tree) ■ Right Pane (Grid) Object tree Any host machines connected to the current VEA client session typically appear as nodes in the object tree.
16 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Main window Grid The right pane contains a grid, which is a tabular display of objects and their properties. The grid displays objects that belong to the group icon that is currently selected in the object tree (left pane). The splitter is the vertical bar that separates the object tree from the grid. You can resize the left and right panes by pressing and holding the mouse button over the splitter and dragging the splitter to the left or right.
Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Main window The Window menu gives you access to the Tear off feature. This allows you to copy views displayed by the VEA Client into new windows. You can then view details of several different object types at the same time, and to correlate relationships between them. Then select the view to be displayed in a new window from the drop-down menu. ■ Help The Help menu provides access to online help for VEA.
18 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Multiple selections Multiple selections You can select more than one object from a list (for example, when you need to add several disks into a disk group) using the SHIFT and CONTROL keys in conjunction with the left mouse button. Use the SHIFT key to select a range of objects. Use the CONTROL key to select individual objects.
Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Opening a new window Alternatively, you can select: File > New Window 19
20 Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console Opening a new window
Chapter Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About Veritas Enterprise Administrator ■ Setting up your system ■ Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator ■ Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences ■ Viewing objects and object properties ■ Performing tasks ■ Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains ■ Exiting the Veritas Enterprise Administrator client ■ Viewing different products ■ Using the control panel ■ Viewing the ale
22 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator About Veritas Enterprise Administrator About Veritas Enterprise Administrator 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. Setting up your system VEA consists of a server (vxsvc) and a client (vea).
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator From a Windows client From a Windows client, you can start VEA from the Start menu, or from the command line. Using the start menu To invoke VEA from the Start menu, click: Start > All Programs > Symantec > Veritas Storage Foundation > Veritas Enterprise Administrator Using the command line You can invoke VEA from a Windows command line.
24 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator To invoke VEA from the command line 1 Go to the directory where VEA client is installed, for example: /opt/VRTSob/bin 2 Start the VEA client by running the script vea from this location. When starting the VEA client from the command line, the following options are available: -v Shows the version of client console. -c Specifies the configuration file for advanced settings. -host Specifies the host to connect to.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences You can also select Tools > Manage Profiles to bring up the Manage Profiles dialog. See “Managing user profiles” on page 40. Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences You can set up your own individual preferences for running VEA using the VEA preferences feature. This offers the following selections: ■ Connection See “Setting connection preferences” on page 26.
26 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences 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.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences Setting general preferences The General tab allows you to set display and connection properties. Setting display properties You can set the display properties for the Toolbar and Perspective Bar icons. Icon text properties can be set to: ■ No text - select Icons. ■ Text displayed above, below, to the right, or left - select Icons with Text, then, select the position using the drop-down menu.
28 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Setting Veritas Enterprise Administrator preferences ■ Korean (South Korea) ■ Chinese (China) ■ Chinese (Taiwan) ■ English (United States) Setting the console view The Console View tab allows you to set: ■ Maximum number of unfiltered messages ■ Filters Number of unfiltered messages The Message Buffer value enables you to set a limit on the number of unfiltered messages held in the Console View buffer.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing objects and object properties Setting user accounts User account information includes details about user ids., domains, and passwords. You can remove a user account, or set it to be the default account to be used for all connections. Security settings allow you to validate authentication brokers. Viewing objects and object properties Objects in the system are displayed in the Main Window and Tabular View. See “Main window” on page 14.
30 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing objects and object properties Click on the appropriate property column heading. To reverse the sort order, click on the column heading again. ■ To resize a grid column: Place the pointer over the line that divides the column headings, then press and hold the mouse button to drag the column divider to the desired position.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing objects and object properties Details view The Details View (Figure 2-1) gives a tabular representation of the objects in a particular group node, or even a single object, depending upon the selection in the Navigational View. Figure 2-1 Details view Console view The Console View displays the active events and alerts for the connected hosts. Click on Console to display the events that have been received by the client during the user session.
32 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Performing tasks Properties of an object Each property has the following attributes shown on Table 2-1: Table 2-1 Property attributes Property type Definition Type Defines the property value; for example, boolean, integer with varied size, and string. Flags Determines one of the characteristics of the property (for example, Hidden or Displayable). Name Identification given to the property. Value Value assigned to property, depending upon the type.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains Running tasks from a popup menu Once you have connected to a host, you can use a context-sensitive popup menu to launch a task on the selected object. A popup menu provides access to tasks or options appropriate for the selected object. Popup menus are available in the main window and most other windows.
34 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains ■ Connecting to a host or domain ■ Logon authentication ■ Disconnecting from a host ■ Switching between connected hosts Connecting to a host or domain You can first connect to a system host by: ■ Using the VEA Assistant ■ Clicking on File > Connect ■ Clicking on the Connect tool bar icon The Connect dialog box is then displayed.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains 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.
36 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Exiting the Veritas Enterprise Administrator client ■ Select the host to be displayed from the list of connected hosts displayed. The display changes to show information for the selected host. Exiting the Veritas Enterprise Administrator client To exit the VEA client, choose File > Exit. It is also possible to close the client by using the close button available at the top right of the window.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing the alert log Figure 2-3 Control panel Viewing the alert log The alert log resides on the server, and records information such as alerts raised, about the server. After connecting to the host (server), you can display a snapshot of the log information by clicking on Logs then the Alert Log tab. The server can have single or multiple alert log files, depending upon the policy.
38 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing the alert log Figure 2-4 Alert log Previous and next alert sets The Previous and Next set of alerts buttons are situated below the Details View. You can display the next set of alerts by clicking the Next set of Alerts button. The current set of alerts is then replaced with the next set of alerts. If there are no more alerts in the event log, the current set continues to be shown.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Viewing the task log Figure 2-5 Alert details Viewing the task log The task log resides on the server, and is similar to the event log; but records information about task objects. You can display a snapshot of the task log information on the client. After connecting to the host (server), you display the task log of the server by selecting the “TaskLog” node under “Logs” in the tree view.
40 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Configuring logs Task details You can view the details for particular task. Select the task and click on “Details.” A new window opens up to show the task details. Configuring logs You can configure the server task and alert logs from the client. To configure the logs 1 Select the “control panel” node in the tree view. The details view appears, listing all the configuration applications.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Managing user profiles ■ Change your password See “Changing your password” on page 42. ■ Delete a profile See “Deleting a profile” on page 42. Figure 2-6 shows the Manage Profiles window. Figure 2-6 User profiles Selecting a startup profile A default startup profile (Default) is created by VEA when it is invoked by the first time.
42 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Firewall support You then enter the desired name for the profile. The following characters are not allowed in the profile name: “ ~!@#$%^&*()=+-[]{}\\|’\”;:.,<>/?′” You can also choose to employ a password. Note: You must remember this password, for there is no way of retrieving a lost password, and the profile cannot then be deleted at a later stage.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Firewall support list of connected hosts. The host name is also displayed in the history and favorites nodes. The firewall and port information is stored in the user profile (wallet) and is used for subsequent connections to the same server. The firewall-port combination is displayed only in the connection dialog. Example 1 If a.b.c.d is a firewall machine, then: Port 1234 on a.b.c.d = 2148 on veaserver1, and Port 3456 on a.b.c.d = 2148 on veaserver2 ... and so on.
44 Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Firewall support To connect 1 Allow for an alias of port 2148 on server A to be a particular port on the firewall machine. 2 Let Pf be the port on the firewall machine F which is an alias for port 2148 on server A. 3 Connect using the GUI to port Pf on F. You are actually managing server A VEA uses Anonymous Deffie Hellman key exchange and is therefore vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attack.
Chapter 3 Accessibility This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About accessibility ■ Keyboard shortcuts ■ Dialog boxes About accessibility Accessibility is enhanced by the use of: ■ Keyboard shortcuts ■ Dialog boxes Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts are possible using accelerators and mnemonics. About accelerators Accelerators are key combinations that provide shortcut access to GUI functions. They allow you to use a computer from the keyboard, rather than using the mouse.
46 Accessibility Keyboard shortcuts About mnemonics Mnemonics are single key strokes, used to activate components such as menu items. A single mnemonic is equivalent to a mouse click. A mnemonic can be used to select a menu item by pressing the Alt key to go into menu pull-down mode, pressing a single key to open a menu and another key to select a menu item.
Accessibility Keyboard shortcuts Veritas Enterprise Administrator additions to Microsoft keyboard conventions Table 3-2 summarizes the keyboard additions to the Microsoft keyboard conventions in the VEA implementation of mnemonics and accelerators: Table 3-2 VEA additions to Microsoft keyboard conventions Convention Mnemonic Accelerator Actions A Alt A. Use this accelerator in place of Shift+F10 with a selected item to bring up the context menu with the Actions menu.
48 Accessibility Dialog boxes Table 3-2 VEA additions to Microsoft keyboard conventions (continued) Convention Mnemonic Accelerator Set to Defaults S Alt S Remember Password R Alt R Username U Alt U Veritas Enterprise Administrator help additions to Microsoft keyboard conventions Table 3-3 summarizes the keyboard additions to the Microsoft keyboard conventions in the VEA implementation of mnemonics and accelerators: Table 3-3 VEA and applications help additions to Microsoft keyboard convent
Accessibility Dialog boxes applications. Typically, items that cannot be changed are not visited by the Tab key. Arrow keys are used to move within a list box, groups of option controls, or groups of page tabs. Arrow keys can move the keyboard focus between other controls but this behavior is not reliable. Options that are unavailable appear dimmed and cannot be selected. While the controls described here are typically found on dialog boxes, they also can occur in other contexts.
50 Accessibility Dialog boxes Table 3-4 Keys Tabbed pages Action Ctrl+Page down or Switches to the next tab and displays the page. Ctrl+Tab Ctrl+Page up Switches to the previous tab and displays the page. down arrow or up arrow Chooses the tab in the next or previous row and displays the page. right arrow or left When the focus is on a tab selector, chooses the next or previous tab arrow in the current row and displays the page. Sliders appear as an indicator on a vertical or horizontal gauge.
Accessibility Dialog boxes Combo-boxes and drop-down combo boxes are list boxes with attached edit boxes. You can make your selection by either typing in the edit box or using the standard commands to select from the list. Table 3-5 summarizes the actions for keys in combo boxes: Table 3-5 Combo boxes and drop-down combo boxes Keys Action up arrow or down arrow Selects the previous or next item.
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Glossary alert An indication that an error or failure has occurred on an object on the system. When an object fails or experiences an error, an alert icon appears. alert icon An icon that indicates that an error or failure has occurred on an object on the system. Alert icons usually appear in the status area of the main window and on the group icon of the affected object. Alert Monitor A window that provides information about objects that have failed or experienced errors.
54 Glossary menu A list of options or tasks. A menu item is selected by pointing to the item and clicking the mouse. menu bar A bar that contains a set of menus for the current window. The menu bar is typically placed across the top of a window. Object View Window A window that displays a graphical view of the volumes, disks, and other objects in a particular disk group. The objects displayed in this window are automatically updated when object properties change.
Index A H accelerators 45 accessibility 45 accessing tasks 32 Actions menu 16 add a host 26 advanced preferences setting 27 alert logs 37 alerts icons 17 help 17 Help menu 17 hosts accessing multiple hosts 12 defined 15 C client 22 configuring logs 40 connection preferences 26 control panel 36 D DCOM authentication 35 details view 31 dialog boxes accessibility 46 disconnecting from a remote computer 35 displaying object properties 29 objects 29 E editing keys 46 F Favorites 26 File menu 16, 32 G gr
56 Index monitoring alerts 17 multiple host support 12 N Native Logon 35 navigational view 30 O object properties 32 object tree 15 objects displaying 29 selecting 30 sorting 30 viewing 29 Options menu 16 P perspective 27 popup menus 33 preferences connection 26 Options menu 16 setting 16 Previous/Next Alerts 38–39 printing views 40 PropertySet 32 R Reconnect at Logon 26 remote administration 12 Remove From Favorites 26 rescan 16 running tasks 32 running tasks using Task Assistant 33 S security 12, 2
