Grass Valley SiteConfig v.2.1 - Manual (Page 51)

About planned and current IP configuration
If you add a device to the system description before discovering the actual device, you are working
with the placeholder device. If you chose a device model, SiteConfig displays a list of the network
interfaces that the model defines in the interfaces view.
You can edit all the network interfaces for the placeholder. You can select a network from which
to assign an IP address and also a specific IP address from that network, if the interface connects to
a managed network. You can also set a hostname for the device. Since you have not matched the
placeholder to a discovered device, all settings are called "planned" settings and are saved in the
system description only.
When you discover a device and match it to a placeholder, SiteConfig retrieves all the current
network configuration from the device. For each network interface defined in the plan, SiteConfig
matches it to the corresponding network interface retrieved and display. SiteConfig displays a
planned tab that indicates the settings that do not match with the current settings.
You can now either choose to do one of the following:
• Keep the current settings. To do this you remove planned settings, which allows SiteConfig to
accept the current settings.
• Have SiteConfig apply the planned settings to the device. When this occurs, the settings currently
configured on the actual network interface are overwritten, so you should compare planned
settings and current settings and verify that the planned settings are correct.
Always set your control interface IP address before your other network interfaces.
SiteConfig also generates a planned tab if settings were modified outside of SiteConfig. A red icon
overlay with tooltip provides contextual information.
Viewing device interfaces
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, select any node.
The devices under that node are displayed in the device list view and the interfaces on the devices
are displayed in the interface list view.
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Working with network configuration