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

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.
■ Remote administration
Administrators can perform administration remotely or locally. The VEA client
runs on UNIX, Linux, or Windows machines.
■ Java-based interface
A pure Java-based interface is used. Administrators can run VEA as a Java
application.
■ Scalability
■ VEA can handle systems containing large numbers of disks. Administrators
can view all of the objects on the system, or focus on a specific object or set of
objects.
■ Security
Please refer to the VEA online help for information on communication between
the client and server across a firewall.
■ Multiple VEA support
The VEA client can provide simultaneous access to multiple host machines.
The administrator can use a single client session to connect to multiple hosts,
view the objects on each host, and perform administrative tasks on each host.
Each host machine must be running the VEA server.
■ Multiple views of objects
VEA provides multiple views of objects:
■ The main window tree and grid view lists objects on the system.
Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console
VEA features
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