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The Ping Devices dialog box reports the progress and results of the ping command
per device.
About hosts files and SiteConfig
SiteConfig uses the network information in the system description to define a hosts
file and allows you to view the hosts file. SiteConfig can manage this hosts file on
Windows operating system devices that are in the system description and that are part
of a SiteConfig managed network.
When you have successfully assigned devices and applied planned network settings
to interfaces, it is an indication that host table information, as currently captured in
the system description, is valid and that you are ready to have SiteConfig assemble
the host table information into a hosts file. Your options for placing this host table
information on devices are as follows:
• If you do not want SiteConfig to manage your host table information, you can
manage it yourself. This is typically the case if your facility has an existing hosts
file that contains host table information for devices that are not in the SiteConfig
system description. In this case, you can have SiteConfig generate a single hosts
file that contains the host table information for the devices in the system description.
You can then copy the desired host table information out of the SiteConfig hosts
file and copy it into your facility hosts file. You must then distribute your facility
hosts file to devices using your own mechanisms.
• If you want SiteConfig to manage all information in hosts files on devices, you
can have SiteConfig copy its hosts file to devices. In so doing, SiteConfig overwrites
the existing hosts files on devices. Therefore, this requires that all devices that have
name resolution through the hosts file be configured accordingly in the SiteConfig
system description.
If you choose to have SiteConfig write hosts files to devices, the process 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.
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Configuring the network