VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Setting Up and Starting the Storage Administrator

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Setting Up and Starting the Storage Administrator

The VERITAS Volume Manager Storage Administrator, vmsa, is a Java-based GUI for the

VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX. The Storage Administrator is installed as part of the

Base VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX. After you initialize the Volume Manager

with vxinstall, you must set up and start the Storage Administrator as described in this

section.

The Storage Administrator has two parts: a server and a client. The client is the graphical

user interface.The server must be installed and run on an HP-UX 11i machine running the

VERITAS Volume Manager. The Storage Administrator client must be installed and run on

an HP-UX 11i machine that supports the Java 1.1 Runtime Environment. The minimum

recommendation for the client is a Hewlett-Packard D-class machine with 256M memory.

NOTE Windows clients are not supported in this release.

If you are planning to run the Storage Administrator client (the vmsa GUI) on the machine

being administered, then all the software you need was installed when you installed

Base-VXVM or B9116AA. However, you will still need to set up and start the Storage

Administrator server and client.

If you are planning to run the Storage Administrator client software on a different machine,

then you will need to install the client software on that machine. You will also need to set up

and start the Storage Administrator server and set up and start the Storage Administrator

client.

See the Overview below for more detailed information on setting up and starting the Storage

Administrator. Also see the VERITAS Volume Manager Storage Administrator

Administrator’s Guide for more information about the Storage Administrator.

Storage Administrator Set Up Overview

To set up and start the Storage Administrator, follow these steps, which are explained in

greater detail in later sections:

Step 1. If users other than root need to access the Storage Administrator, set up security

and specify which users can run the Storage Administrator. See “Customizing

Security (Optional)” for the procedure.

Step 2. If you plan to run the Storage Administrator client from a machine other than the

machine to be administered, install the Storage Administrator client on the HP-UX