VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 12, Using the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Graphical User Interface
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service
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VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service
To use the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI, VERITAS Enterprise Administrator
(VEA) Service must be running on the server. The VEA Service is started when you install the
software. Occasionally, you may need to manually start or stop the service or add users to the VEA
Service console registry.
Prerequisites
◆ Use the /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdbedusr utility to create login names for any user, other than
root, who needs to run the GUI. To run /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdbedusr, you must have
superuser (root) privileges. For more information, see “Adding Users to the VERITAS
Enterprise Administrator Service Console Registry” on page 271.
◆ You must have superuser (root) privileges to execute the vxsvcctrl command.
Note You must update the database using the dbed_update command at least once on each
database before you can manage the database(s) through the GUI.
Adding Users to the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service
Console Registry
You may want to add users to the VEA Service console registry to allow access to the interface to
users other than root. You also have the option to give database administrators root privileges.
Having root privileges means that you can access the volume, disk, and file system objects in the
system.
▼ To add users other than root to the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service console
registry
1. Make sure that the optional GUI package was installed.
# swlist | grep VRTSorgui
VRTSorgui 4.1 VERITAS Database Edition
Graphical User Interface for Oracle
2. To give root privileges within the GUI to the database administrator, use the vxdbedusr
command as follows.
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdbedusr -a user [-A] [-f] -n user_name
where:
-a user adds a user to the registry.