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4. Do one of the following:
• If you are managing host table information yourself, click Save As and save a copy of the
hosts le to a location on the control point PC. Then open the copy of the hosts le, copy the
desired host table information from it, and paste it into your facility hosts le as desired. Then
you can use your own process to distribute the facility hosts le to devices. Remember to
distribute to the control point PC so that SiteCong and other management applications such
as K2Cong can resolve network host names.
• If SiteCong is managing hosts les, do the following:
NOTE: Writing hosts les 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 les 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 le and select View Current Host File.
A Host File Contents window opens that displays the contents of the hosts le 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 le
that is not also in the hosts le as currently dened in the system description. If you need to
save the device's current hosts le, 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 le is overwritten with the hosts le as dened in the system description.
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