Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.7.0 Installation - Manual (Page 59)

April 6, 2010 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide 59
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig
If you choose to have SiteConfig write hosts files to devices, the pro-
cess consumes system resource and network bandwidth. Therefore
you should wait until you have verified the information for all
devices/interfaces in the host file, rather than updating hosts files
incrementally as you discover/assign devices.
SiteConfig does not automatically deploy hosts files to managed
devices as you add or remove devices. If you add or remove devices
from the system description, you must re-deploy the modified hosts
file to all devices.
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig
Prerequisites for this task are as follows:
• Planned control network settings are applied to control network interfaces and
devices are communicating on the control network as defined in the system
description.
• Interfaces for networks that require name resolution via the hosts file, such as the
FTP/streaming network, have settings applied and are communicating.
• You have viewed host names, as currently defined in the system description, and
determined that they are correct.
• The control point PC is added to the system description so that it is included in the
host tables generated by SiteConfig.
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, select a network, site, or system
node.
2. Click View Hosts file .
A Hosts File Contents window opens that displays the contents of the hosts file as
currently defined in the system description.
3. Verify the information in the hosts file.
4. Do one of the following:
• If you are managing host table information yourself, click Save As and save a
copy of the hosts file to a location on the control point PC. Then open the copy
of the hosts file, copy the desired host table information from it, and paste it into
your facility hosts file as desired. Then you can use your own process to
distribute the facility hosts file to devices. Remember to distribute to the control
point PC so that SiteConfig and other management applications such as
K2Config can resolve network host names.
• If SiteConfig is managing hosts files, do the following:
Writing hosts files to multiple devices consumes system resource and network
bandwidth. Therefore it is recommended that you wait and do this after the system
is complete and fully implemented, rather than updating hosts files incrementally
as you discover/assign devices.
a. In the Network Configuration | Devices | Devices list view, right-click a device to