Opening and Closing the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI

You can run the GUI from a Windows or UNIX client machine. You must have the client software installed before you can use the GUI.

Prerequisites

• Use the /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdbedusr utility to create login names for anyone (other than root) who needs to run the GUI. To run /opt/VRTS/bin/vxdbedusr, you must have superuser (root) privileges.
• The dbed_update command must be run at least once before you can manage a database through the GUI.

Opening the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI from a Windows Client

  To start the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI from a Windows client

1. Click on Start, then select Programs > VERITAS > VERITAS Enterprise Administrator.
2. In the Connection pop-up window, enter the host name for the server to which you are connecting and press the Tab key.
3. Enter your login name and password. Then click OK.

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     Note    The VEA Service must be running on the server. If you need to start the VEA Service, see Starting the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Service.

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