Introducing the Veritas Enterprise Administrator console

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Main window

 

 

 

The Window menu gives you access to the Tear off feature. This allows you to copy views displayed by the VEA Client into new windows. You can then view details of several different object types at the same time, and to correlate relationships between them.

Then select the view to be displayed in a new window from the drop-down menu.

■Help

The Help menu provides access to online help for VEA.

Toolbar

The toolbar provides quick access for performing some of the program’s most common tasks.

The toolbar displays the following options:

■Connect

■Disconnect

■New Window

The toolbar is context-sensitive. Based on the type of object selected in the tree view, it displays additional options for frequently used tasks

Status area

The status area is at the bottom of the main window. It includes the Console View and Task View.

Console view

When a host is selected, you can click on Console to bring up the Console View. This displays the most recent messages for the host. When a message is selected, additional information about that message is displayed.

You can also double-click on a selected message to display message properties in the Console Message Details dialog.

Select Configure this view to bring up the Preferences dialog, if you want to change the buffer and filter settings.

Tasks view

Click on Tasks to bring up the Task View. This displays information about the current tasks.