Grass Valley GV STRATUS Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 227)

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.
Related Topics
About hosts files and SiteConfig on page 181
Licensing a GV STRATUS system
Licenses are requested through email and managed through the SabreTooth License Manager, which
is installed on the Grass Valley product with the Grass Valley software. The SabreTooth License
Manager must be located on the Grass Valley product.
License information is stored in XML files that you can manage just like any other file on your
system. Node-locked licenses are unique to the system for which they are requested and cannot be
used on any other machine. A floating license can be used on multiple machines, one at a time. You
should back up the license text files to a separate drive or as part of a recovery image.
Licenses are based on your system’s unique identifier, which is partially derived from your system’s
Media Access Control (MAC) address. If you change your system’s MAC address by performing
operations such as changing the System Processor card, you must obtain a new license based on the
new MAC address.
To license a GV STRATUS system, one or more licenses must be installed on the GV STRATUS
server with role of Common Services. If the system has a server that does proxy encoding, one or
more licenses for proxy encoding must be installed on that server as well.
Related Topics
GV STRATUS devices and their roles, cab files, services, and licenses on page 185
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