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4. If enabled, click Set to Device Name.
This changes the host name to be the same as the device name.
5. Click OK.
6. When prompted, restart the device.
Pinging devices from the PC that hosts SiteConfig
Prerequisites:
The devices you are pinging are in the SiteCong system description.
You can send the ping command to one or more devices in the system description over the network
to which the SiteCong host PC is connected. Typically this is the control network.
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, select a network, site, or system node.
2. In the Devices list view, select one or more devices. Use Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click to select
multiple devices.
3. Right-click the selected device or devices and select Ping.
The Ping Devices dialog box opens and lists the selected device or devices.
The Ping Devices dialog box reports the progress and results of the ping command per device.
About hosts files and SiteConfig
SiteCong uses the network information in the system description to dene a hosts le and allows
you to view the hosts le. SiteCong can manage this hosts le on Windows operating system
devices that are in the system description and that are part of a SiteCong managed network.
When you have successfully assigned devices and applied planned network settings to interfaces,
it is an indication that host table information, as currently captured in the system description, is valid
and that you are ready to have SiteCong assemble the host table information into a hosts le. Your
options for placing this host table information on devices are as follows:
If you do not want SiteCong to manage your host table information, you can manage it yourself.
This is typically the case if your facility has an existing hosts le that contains host table
information for devices that are not in the SiteCong system description. In this case, you can
have SiteCong generate a single hosts le that contains the host table information for the devices
in the system description. You can then copy the desired host table information out of the
SiteCong hosts le and copy it into your facility hosts le. You must then distribute your facility
hosts le to devices using your own mechanisms.
If you want SiteCong to manage all information in hosts les on devices, you can have
SiteCong copy its hosts le to devices. In so doing, SiteCong overwrites the existing hosts
les on devices. Therefore, this requires that all devices that have name resolution through the
hosts le be congured accordingly in the SiteCong system description.
If you choose to have SiteCong write hosts les to devices, the process consumes system resource
and network bandwidth. Therefore you should wait until you have veried the information for all
devices/interfaces in the host le, rather than updating hosts les incrementally as you discover/assign
devices.
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