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VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide: for HP-UX 11i and HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 > Chapter 2 Getting Started

Starting the Storage Administrator Client

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The VERITAS Volume Manager Storage Administrator client software, the vmsa GUI, can be run from the machine to be administered (the server machine), or from a remote machine (the client machine). The VERITAS Volume Manager daemon, vxconfigd, and the Storage Administrator server, vmsa_server, must be running on the machine to be administered.

To run the Storage Administrator client, vmsa, do the following steps:

  1. Set the VMSAHOME environment variable with the following command:

    export VMSAHOME=/opt/HPvmsa

  2. Update your PATH environment variable to include the directory containing the Storage Administrator startup scripts with the following command:

    export PATH=$PATH:$VMSAHOME/bin

  3. To run the Storage Administrator on the machine to be administered (the server machine), run:

    vmsa &

    To run the Storage Administrator remotely from a client machine, you must name the machine to be administered (server_machine). Run:

    vmsa server_machine &

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