Grass Valley SiteConfig Migration Instructions - Manual (Page 38)

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NOTE: There might be a newer version of this document available. Check your
product's release notes and the Grass Valley website at www.grassvalley.com/docs
for references to an updated version that contains additional important information.
Use the topics in this section as appropriate to further modify your SiteConfig system
description so that it accurately represents your actual system.
NOTE: Refer to the migration checklist for your system type to determine the
appropriate topics and other system-specific information.
Related Links
Type I migration checklist on page 8
Type II migration checklist on page 9
Type III migration checklist on page 11
About planned and current IP configuration
If you add a device to the system description before discovering the actual device,
you are working with the placeholder device. If you chose a device model, SiteConfig
displays a list of the network interfaces that the model defines in the interfaces view.
You can edit all the network interfaces for the placeholder. You can select a network
from which to assign an IP address and also a specific IP address from that network,
if the interface connects to a managed network. You can also set a hostname for the
device. Since you have not matched the placeholder to a discovered device, all settings
are called "planned" settings and are saved in the system description only.
When you discover a device and match it to a placeholder, SiteConfig retrieves all the
current network configuration from the device. For each network interface defined in
the plan, SiteConfig matches it to the corresponding network interface retrieved and
display. SiteConfig displays a planned tab that indicates the settings that do not match
with the current settings.
You can now either choose to do one of the following:
• Keep the current settings. To do this you remove planned settings, which allows
SiteConfig to accept the current settings.
• Have SiteConfig apply the planned settings to the device. When this occurs, the
settings currently configured on the actual network interface are overwritten, so
you should compare planned settings and current settings and verify that the planned
settings are correct.
Always set your control interface IP address before your other network interfaces.
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