Connecting to a host


Connecting to a host
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You can connect to all hosts that are intended to be a part of the RDS, from VEA, and perform all the Volume Replicator operations on them.

After you have started Storage Foundation on one host, you can connect to additional hosts from the same session. Each host machine must be running the Veritas Enterprise Administrator service.

Note:

This task requires a host machine name, user name, domain name, and password. Only users with appropriate privileges can run Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions.

Note:

If User Access Control (UAC) is enabled, then you cannot log on to VEA GUI with an account that is not a member of the Administrators group, such as a guest user. This happens because such user does not have the "Write" permission for the "Veritas" folder in the installation directory (typically, C:\Program Files\Veritas). As a workaround, an OS administrator user can set "Write" permission for the guest user using the Security tab of the "Veritas" folder's properties.

You can connect to a host in one of the following ways:

To connect to a host

To connect to a host:
- Click File > Connect.
- Click Connect toolbar icon.
- Click the Connect to a Host or Domain task that is displayed on the Home panel.
Complete the Connect dialog box as follows:
- Host Name
  
  Enter the name of the system to be administered. (For example, in case of Volume Replicator, both vcsvc and the VEA service must be running on this system.
- Use Browse to locate the system to be administered.
- Clicking Browse displays the Browse dialog box. The Browse dialog box includes the Favorites and Network tabs. You may select a host from the Favorites and Network tab.
When the default user account is not set, the Connect as option displays No default user account as the default user account. When the default user account is set the radio button displays the same to connect to the system.
If there is no default account identity but the host has been connected to some other user account, it is displayed in the dialog box.
Select Connect using a different user account to connect to the system using any other user account other than the default user account.

Click Connect to log on.

The Connecting to:<machine name/machine IP> dialog box is displayed.

Complete the Connecting to:<machine name/machine IP> dialog box as follows:

Username	Enter your logon name. Only users with appropriate privileges can access Storage Foundation on the specified system. (The service is already running on the host.)
Password	Enter your password for the system to be administered.
@Domain	Select a domain (If any) from the drop-down list. The list contains the domains that the host is part of.
Save Password	Select this check box to save the password on your computer
Set this as the default user account for this profile	Select this check box to set the current account information as the default user account for this profile. The saved user account can be viewed by clicking Pick or by clicking Security tab in the `Preferences` panel.

Alternatively, the user can select an already saved user account by clicking Pick. When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK. The new host appears in the object tree in the main window.

After you connect to the required hosts, VEA displays the Replication Network object in the Select Host field. Click on Replication Network to view the Volume Replicator objects. The VEA console provides a single graphical interface to view and manipulate all the SFW objects and Volume Replicator objects on your system. You must first connect to at least the local node so that Replication Network node is available.