VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started

Connecting and Disconnecting a Host
24 VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started
If the user does not have administrator privileges, then the connection takes place using the
Native Logon mechanism.
Disconnecting from a Host
The Disconnect procedure disconnects a host machine from the current VEA session. When a host
machine is disconnected, VEA cannot administer that machine until a new connection is made.
1. Right-click the computer icon to be disconnected.
2. Select Disconnect from the file menu on the menu bar.
3. A confirmation dialog will appear, click Ye s to end the remote connection.
4. The computer icon disappears from the left tree view.
If the connection is lost for any other reason, a message appears that indicates the connection has
been terminated, and the icon for that computer is removed from the left tree view. You need to
click OK to close the message box.
To restore access to a disconnected host machine, you must reconnect to the host.
Reconnecting Hosts at Startup
By default, hosts in the Favorite Hosts folder are reconnected at startup.
You can disable the default by disabling the ‘Reconnect at Logon’ option:
◆ Right click on the host
◆ Select (uncheck) the Reconnect At Startup check box
A host in the favorite hosts folder will not be reconnected at startup if the Reconnect At Startup
checkbox is not set.
Using History to View Recent Connections
VEA uses the History folder in the tree view to list the computers that were connected to recently.
When you connect to a remote computer for the first time, an icon representing the remote
computer appears in the History folder.