Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator 33

Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains

Running tasks from a popup menu

Once you have connected to a host, you can use a context-sensitive popup menu to launch a task on the selected object. A popup menu provides access to tasks or options appropriate for the selected object. Popup menus are available in the main window and most other windows.

To perform a task on an object with the popup menu

◆Right-click on the object and choose the appropriate task in the popup menu. If this launches a dialog box or wizard, complete the dialog box (or wizard).

Running tasks from the task assistant

Once you have connected to a host, you can use the VEA Task Assistant to launch a task on a selected object and activity, as shown in Figure 2-2.

Figure 2-2

VEA task assistant

Connecting and disconnecting hosts and domains

The system host typically has multiple Symantec products installed on it. To be able to use the products, client console needs to connect to the system through an authentication channel.

VEA can access and display multiple host machines simultaneously.