VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 for HP-UX Release Notes

Setting Up and Starting the Storage Administrator

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11i machine where the client will run. See “Installing the Storage Administrator

Client on HP-UX” for the procedure.

Step 3. Start the Storage Administrator server on the machine to be administered. See

“Starting the Storage Administrator Server” for the procedure.

Step 4. Start the Storage Administrator client. See “Starting the Storage Administrator

Client” for the procedure.

Step 5. To run the Storage Administrator server in read-only mode for the purposes of

monitoring or browsing, see “Running the Storage Administrator in Read-Only

Mode”.

Customizing Security (Optional)

The VERITAS Volume Manager Storage Administrator can only be run by users with

appropriate privileges. By default, only root can run the Storage Administrator. However,

you can set up your system to allow other users to run Storage Administrator.

Step 1. On the machine to be administered, add a group named vrtsadm to the group file,

/etc/group, or NIS (Network Information Name Service) group table. The vrtsadm

group must include the user names of any users (including root) who will have

access to the Storage Administrator. For example:

vrtsadm::999:root,user1,user2

If the vrtsadm group does not exist, only root has access to the Storage

Administrator. If vrtsadm exists, root must be included in vrtsadm in order for

root to run the Storage Administrator.

Step 2. vrtsadm is the default VERITAS administrator group name. However, you can

change vrtsadm to another name by setting the vrts.server.adminGroup

property to another value. You can reset the VERITAS administrator group name to

new_groupname by changing the following line in the

/opt/HPvmsa/vmsa/properties file:

vrts.server.adminGroup=new_groupname

Step 3. Once you have set up security for the Volume Manager Storage Administrator, you

can monitor access to the Storage Administrator by reviewing the contents of the

access log file. By default, the access log file is /var/opt/vmsa/logs/access. This

file contains entries similar to the following: