VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started

Using the VEA

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.

This chapter introduces you to:

◆ Setting Up Your System

◆ Starting VEA

◆ Viewing Objects and Object Properties

◆ Performing Tasks

◆ Running Tasks From the Menu Bar

◆ Running Tasks From a Popup Menu

◆ Setting Layout Preferences

◆ Setting General Preferences

◆ Using the Control Panel

◆ Viewing the Event Log

◆ Viewing the Task Log

◆ Connecting and Disconnecting a Host

◆ Viewing Different Products

◆ Printing Views

◆ Exiting the VEA Client

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.