Grass Valley GV STRATUS Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 68)

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
SiteConfig software installation for client PC
All systems require this process. Install GV STRATUS software for the first time on your GV
STRATUS client PCs.
Related Topics
System requirements for GV STRATUS client PC on page 47
Verify software roles
All systems require this process.
Verify that the roles assigned to your GV STRATUS client PCs in SiteConfig are correct for your
system design.
1. In the Software Deployment | Devices tree view, expand a device’s node to expose the roles
currently assigned to the device.
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