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Adding new hosts
There are two main ways to add new hosts, you can either:
• Extracthostsfromadevice,or
• Addeachnewhostcomputermanually.
Note: As a matter of course, hosts should always be extracted during acquisition
of a device, otherwise the host list within the device will be overwritten by
ADDER.NET. The extraction facility described below would then only be needed
to learn about devices that have been added or changed since the acquisition
took place. The process of adding hosts manually will normally overwrite any
existing host definitions stored within the KVM-over-IP device that have not
been previously extracted.
To extract hosts from a device
1 On the ADDER.NET Manager menu bar, place your mouse pointer over
Devices and then choose Browse from the drop down list. The screen will
show a list of all devices that are registered within ADDER.NET.
2 Click the Manage button of the appropriate device to display the Device
Manager page.
3 Click the Advanced Control link to display the Hardware Manager page.
4 Click the Extract hosts from the device link and then confirm the
popup dialog box. After a short delay the Host Browser page should be
displayed with a list of all extracted host computers from the device. Each
host computer entry can be individually viewed and edited by clicking the
adjacent Manage button – see Managing host entries.
Note: When a device is connected to just a single host, it is still necessary to
extract the single host from the device.
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Hosts
Hosts are computers that are linked to one or more KVM-over-IP devices.
Host Groups are logical collections of host computers (which may be connected
to the same or to different KVM devices) so that common access rights to the
host computers within the group can be given to individual users or user groups.
If required, one or more Host Groups can be included within other Host Groups
to create staged layers of groupings.
The Hosts menu provides access to the following items:
Browse – Displays the Host Browser page so that you can see a list of the
registered host computers, each one showing its name, the device/cluster to
which it is connected, its description and location details. Click the Manage
button for the required host to see further information.
Search – Allows you to enter various criteria on which to search for a
particular host.
Add – Allows you to define the characteristics of a new host computer and
add it to the list manually.
Browse Host Groups – Displays the Host Group Browser page so that you
can see a list of all registered host groups. Click the Manage button for the
required host group to see further information and make changes.
Search Host Groups – Allows you to search for host groups by name or
description.
Add Host Group – Allows you to create new host groups and to define
the host computers to be included and the users/groups that should be
permitted access to those hosts.