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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 SiteCong system description.
You can send the ping command to one or more devices in the system description over the network
to which the SiteCong 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
SiteCong uses the network information in the system description to dene a hosts le and allows
you to view the hosts le. SiteCong can manage this hosts le on Windows operating system
devices that are in the system description and that are part of a SiteCong 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 SiteCong 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 SiteCong 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 SiteCong system description. In this case, you can
have SiteCong 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
SiteCong 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 SiteCong to manage all information in hosts les on devices, you can have
SiteCong copy its hosts le to devices. In so doing, SiteCong overwrites the existing hosts
les on devices. Therefore, this requires that all devices that have name resolution through the
hosts le be congured accordingly in the SiteCong system description.
If you choose to have SiteCong write hosts les to devices, the process consumes system resource
and network bandwidth. Therefore you should wait until you have veried 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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