VEA (1)

User Commands

NAME

vea - launches the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (Java console).

vea [-v] [-d] [-p timeMinutes] [-cp userPath] [-DVAR=%VAR%] [-host remote_hostname] [-help]

vea launches the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (Java console) as a standalone application with the specified options.

Checks if USER HOME is set. If it is not set, vea exits with an error message. If USER HOME is set, vea creates the following directories, if they do not already exist:
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob/extensions (to save downloaded extensions)
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob/log (to create the debug log)
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob/msgCatalogs (to save downloaded message catalogs)
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob/preference (to save user preferences)
- USER_HOME/.VRTSob/wallets (to save user preferences)
Sets appropriate permissions on the newly-created directories.
Checks if the DISPLAY variable is set. If the command is invoked from a remote host, and the DISPLAY variable is not set, vea exits with an error message.

vea resides by default in: /opt/VRTSob/bin

-v: Prints the VEA (Java console) version number.
-d, -debug: Runs the VEA (Java console) in debug mode.
-p timeMinutes: Specifies the frequency (in minutes) for the VEA Java console to ping the Local Controller (vxsvc).
-cp userPath: Specifies the user\(cqs class path (for libraries) to be appended to the application\(cqs class path.
-DVAR\:=%VAR%\:,: Specifies the environment variable for the Java directory (Windows only).
-host remote_hostname: Connects to a Local Controller (vxsvc) on a remote host at startup. remote_hostname is a host name, fully qualified host name, or IP address of the remote host on which you want to connect to a Local Controller.
-help: Prints all options supported by vea (Windows only).

This section applies to UNIX installs only.

0---The command completed successfully

1---The DISPLAY variable is not set.

2---Error parsing the command

3---Cannot determine the home directory

4---Cannot create directory