The following error message is displayed when VEA service is not started:

The Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service could not be started.

or

Could not connect to the server.

When using the Command Line Interface, sometimes the Volume Replicator commands may start failing indicating that the VEA service is not started. Sometimes, the vxsvc service cannot be started successfully in the first attempt and the error message is displayed.

To resolve this problem stop and restart the vxsvc service from the command line using the following commands:

net stop vxsvc
net start vxsvc

You can also use the Service Control Manager (SCM) to restart the Veritas Enterprise Administrator service.