Grass Valley SiteConfig Migration Instructions - Manual (Page 12)

Comment Task
— Develop your system description as
neccessary to represent your system
Make the networks in the system
description match your actual system Create or modify networks as necessary
networks. You can also configure a
unmanaged network for software
deployment only. This is useful if you
have devices, such as Aurora Edit LD
workstations, that are on a network that
should not be managed by SiteConfig.
Group similar devices together. Add one or more groups to the system
description, if additional groups are
needed.
Select Family, Type, and Model to create
a placeholder device based on the
standard device model. Add a placeholder device to the system
description for each of your system
devices that do not already have a
placeholder device.
Check SiteConfig support software,
network interfaces, and software roles. Evaluate actual devices and determine
their readiness for SiteConfig.
— Install SiteConfig support on system
devices as necessary.
Verify that SiteConfig can access the
device via administrator
username/password. Set credentials on system devices.
Make network interfaces on placeholder
devices match the network interfaces on
actual devices. Remove and add network interfaces on
placeholder devices as necessary.
Make software roles on placeholder
devices match the software on actual
devices. Remove and add software roles on
placeholder devices as necessary.
— Make any further modifications to the
system description as necessary to
represent your actual system.
If configuring for software deployment
only, device discovery is not used for
Aurora Edit LD workstations. Discover system devices.
— Assign each discovered device to its
placeholder device.
— For each discovered and assigned device,
evaluate managed network interfaces.
NOTE: Do not apply planned settings.
Remove planned settings, if present, from
network interfaces.
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Prepare for SiteConfig migration