Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 126)

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Chapter 5 Managing stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig
About managing stand-alone K2 clients with
SiteConfig
The topics in this section apply to the following K2 client products:
• K2 Summit Production Client with internal storage
• K2 Summit Production Client with direct-connect storage
Work through the topics sequentially to get SiteConfig set up to remotely configure
and manage one or more K2 clients. Then you can use SiteConfig for software
upgrades and other management tasks.
SiteConfig and stand-alone K2 clients checklist
Use the following sequence of tasks as a guideline to set up SiteConfig and do your
initial configuration for one or more stand-alone K2 clients. This checklist outlines
the recommended workflow for a new system.
Task Comment
Select a PC to use as the SiteConfig control
point PC Review system requirements and network
access requirements about installing
SiteConfig.
Install SiteConfig on the control point PC —
Create a system description and add a
custom site to the system description If you already have a SiteConfig system
description managing other devices in your
facility, you can use that system description
also for your stand-alone K2 clients, rather
than creating a new system description.
Add a control network to the site. You can
also add a FTP/streaming network if desired —
Add a group for your K2 clients to the
system description —
Add a placeholder K2 client to the system
description for each of your actual K2 clients —
Configure the names of the placeholder K2
clients —
Configure the network interfaces of the
placeholder K2 clients Specify IP address ranges and other network
details
Discover your K2 clients —
Assign each discovered K2 client to its
placeholder K2 client —