42Using Veritas Enterprise Administrator Firewall support

You then enter the desired name for the profile. The following characters are not allowed in the profile name:

~!@#$%^&*()=+-[]{}\\’\”;:.,<>/?′”

You can also choose to employ a password.

Note: You must remember this password, for there is no way of retrieving a lost password, and the profile cannot then be deleted at a later stage. A blank password or a password consisting of spaces alone will not be considered for a password, and the profile will be marked as not having a password.

Changing your password

Select the profile, and then click Edit to change the password for the profile. This brings up the Edit Profile dialog.

You will need to know the current password in order to change your password.

Deleting a profile

Select the profile, and then click Delete to delete a profile. You are then prompted to confirm the deletion of the profile.

If the selected profile is password protected, you are then prompted to enter the password.

Firewall support

In VEA, the client connects to the server using a specific port number: 2148. In order to connect to the server through a firewall, a port on the firewall is mapped to the 2148 port of the VEA server.

When the client wishes to connect to the server through the firewall, it needs to specify the host and port in the following format.

Firewallhost:port

where:

Firewallhost is the name or IP address of the firewall.

port is the port on the firewall that is internally mapped to the VEA server.

When the client connects to the server, the VEA client displays the host name (server name) that it connected to, and not the firewall-port combination in the