Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 148)

148 K2 System Guide 07 April 2010
Chapter 5 Managing stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig
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:
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.
Configuring deployment groups
Prerequisites for this procedure are as follows:
• The device is assigned in the SiteConfig system description and network
connectivity is present.
1. In the Software Deployment | Deployment Groups tree view, right-click the top node
and select Add Deployment Group .
A deployment group appears in the tree view.
2. Right-click the deployment group, select Rename , and enter a name for the
deployment group.
3. Right-click the deployment group and select Add Target Device .
The Add Target Device(s) wizard opens.