Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator 23

Starting Veritas Enterprise Administrator

From a Windows client

From a Windows client, you can start VEA from the Start menu, or from the command line.

Using the start menu

To invoke VEA from the Start menu, click:

Start > All Programs > Symantec > Veritas Storage Foundation >

Veritas Enterprise Administrator

Using the command line

You can invoke VEA from a Windows command line.

To invoke VEA from the command line

1Go to the directory where the VEA client is installed, for example:

<installed dir>\Veritas\Veritas Object bus\bin

2Start the VEA client by running the batch file vea.bat from this location.

When starting the VEA client from the command line, the following options are available

-v

Shows the version of client console.

-c

Specifies the configuration file for advanced settings.

-host

Specifies the host to connect to. If the username and password

 

for the host is already stored, these will be used; otherwise, you

 

will be prompted for your username and password.

From a UNIX client

You can invoke VEA from a UNIX command line.