VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Host and Cluster Tasks

Setting Up Automatic Host Connections

Chapter 5216

Setting Up Automatic Host Connections

This procedure causes the Storage Administrator to automatically

connect to speciﬁed hosts at startup. You can specify which hosts should

connect to the Storage Administrator client at startup and howto display

those hosts in the main window’s object tree.

To set up automatic host connections

Step 1. Choose Options > Customize from the main window menu bar.

Step 2. Click on the Hosts tab in the Customize window.

Step 3. To specify a host machine, click Add and type the host machine name in

the Hosts column of the grid.

Step 4. To automatically connect to the speciﬁed host at Storage Administrator

startup, click in the Connect column. A check mark indicates that the

Connect preference is set for the host. If you want the object tree to

display the hierarchy of objects under the host at startup, click in the

Auto-Expand column.

Step 5. When you have completed your selection(s), click OK.

Step 6. Choose Options > Save Customization from the main window menu bar.

Your host settings will take effect the next time you start the Storage

Administrator client.