Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.7.0 - Manual (Page 53)

• 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:
NOTE: 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 which you intend to write the hosts file and select View Current Host File .
A Host File Contents window opens that displays the contents of the hosts
file that is currently on that actual device.
b) Verify that there is no information that you want to retain in the device’s current
hosts file that is not also in the hosts file as currently defined in the system
description. If you need to save the device's current hosts file, click
Save As
and save to a different location.
c) In the Network Configuration | Devices | Devices list view, right-click a device
or use Ctrl + Click to select multiple devices, and select Update Host File .
The current hosts file is overwritten with the hosts file as defined in the
system description.
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Configuring the network