Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.7.0 - Manual (Page 28)

Network setup and implementation checklist
Comment Task
If you already have a SiteConfig system
description managing other devices such Create a system description
as K2 SAN in your facility, you can use
that system description rather than
creating a new one.
If you have not already added the
corporate LAN to the system description Add a group for your Aurora Playout
devices to the system description
and you have Playout devices that
connect to that network, use this
procedure to add the corporate LAN to
the SiteConfig system description.
— Add a placeholder device to the system
description for each of your actual
Aurora Playout devices
— Configure the names of the placeholder
devices
Specify IP address ranges and other
network details Configure the network interfaces of the
placeholder devices
— Discover your Aurora Playout devices
— Assign each discovered device to its
placeholder device
If a device connects to multiple networks,
set the control network interface IP
address first. Also set the hostname. For each discovered and assigned device,
edit each network interface. Specify
network settings and apply them to the
device.
Make sure the device name is correct,
then make the hostname the same as the
device name. If not already set correctly, set the
hostname of discovered devices
— Ping each Aurora Playout device to test
network communication
Make sure you have completed network
configuration of all network interfaces Generate host table information and
distribute to hosts files on each device
and on the control point PC
across all devices to ensure complete and
valid host table information. You can use
SiteConfig to copy hosts files to devices,
or you can manage hosts files yourself.
Next: Software update checklist
28 Aurora Playout User Guide 14 April 2010
Preparing for installation