Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 125)

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Chapter
5
Managing stand-alone K2 systems with
SiteConfig
This chapter contains the following topics:
• “About managing stand-alone K2 clients with SiteConfig”
• “SiteConfig and stand-alone K2 clients checklist”
• “System requirements for SiteConfig control point PC”
• “About installing SiteConfig”
• “Installing/upgrading SiteConfig”
• “Creating a system description for stand-alone K2 clients”
• “Creating the control network for stand-alone K2 clients”
• “Creating the FTP/streaming network for stand-alone K2 clients (optional)”
• “Adding a group”
• “Adding stand-alone K2 clients to the system description”
• “Modifying stand-alone K2 client unassigned (unmanaged) interfaces”
• “Discovering devices with SiteConfig”
• “Assigning discovered devices”
• “Modifying stand-alone K2 client managed network interfaces”
• “Adding a control point PC placeholder device to the system description”
• “Assigning the control point PC”
• “Making the host name the same as the device name”
• “Pinging devices from the control point PC”
• “About hosts files and SiteConfig”
• “Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig”
• “Configuring deployment groups”
• “About deploying software for stand-alone K2 clients”