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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
For each discovered and assigned K2 client, edit each network interface. Specify network settings and apply them to the K2 client. On each K2 client, set the control network interface IP address first, then the FTP/streaming network interface, if present. Also set the hostname.
Add a control point PC placeholder device to the system description
Discover the control point PC and assign it to the placeholder control point PC
If not already set correctly, set the hostname of discovered devices Make sure the device name is correct, then make the hostname the same as the device name.
Ping each K2 client and the control point PC to test network communication
Generate host table information and distribute to hosts files on each K2 client and on the control point PC Make sure you have completed network configuration of all network interfaces across all devices to ensure complete and valid host table information. You can use SiteConfig to copy hosts files to devices, or you can manage hosts files yourself.
Create a deployment group
Add stand-alone K2 clients to the deployment group

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