VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Getting Started
Starting the Storage Administrator Client
Chapter 252
Starting the Storage Administrator Client
The VERITAS Volume Manager Storage Administrator client software,
the vmsa GUI, can be run from the machine to be administered (the
server machine), or from a remote machine (the client machine). The
VERITAS Volume Manager daemon, vxconfigd, and the Storage
Administrator server, vmsa_server, must be running on the machine to
be administered.
To run the Storage Administrator client, vmsa, do the following steps:
Step 1. Set the VMSAHOME environment variable with the following command:
export VMSAHOME=/opt/HPvmsa
Step 2. Update your PATH environment variable to include the directory
containing the Storage Administrator startup scripts with the following
command:
export PATH=$PATH:$VMSAHOME/bin
Step 3. To run the Storage Administrator on the machine to be administered
(the server machine), run:
vmsa &
To run the Storage Administrator remotely from a client machine, you
must name the machine to be administered (server_machine ). Run:
vmsa server_machine &