Veritas Enterprise Administrator User"s Guide (5900-1505, April 2011)

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). You must install and run the
VEA server on a UNIX machine running VxVM. You can install and run the VEA
client on any Windows, HP, Linux, Solaris, or AIX machine that supports the Java
Runtime Environment.
Before you can use VEA, you need to perform the following procedure.
To prepare to use VEA
1
Install VxVM on the machine to be administered.
2
Install the VEA server and client on the machine to be administered.
3
If users other than root need to access VEA, set up security to specify which
users can run VEA.
4
If you plan to run the VEA client from a machine other than the machine to
be administered, install the VEA client on the machine where the client will
run.
5
Start the VEA server on the machine to be administered.
6
Start the VEA client.
Refer to the Installation manuals for your products for details on how to
install and set up your products and VEA.
Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator
Only users with appropriate privileges can run VEA. Refer to the Installation
manuals for your products for information on security and access permissions.
You can use VEA to administer the local machine or a remote machine. The VxVM
daemon (vxconfigd) and the VEA server (vxsvc) must be running on the machine
to be administered. Once VEA is installed, the VEA server starts automatically at
system startup.
You can start the VEA console from a Windows or UNIX client.
Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator
About Veritas Enterprise Administrator
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