Administrator Guide

Figure 17. Other settings

To configure the other settings, do the following:

1. In the Source section, configure one of the following options:

● Contact DHCP server—If you set the hostname of the thin client by selecting the DHCP server option, the hostname is

set to the standard host-name tag received from the DHCP server. If the DHCP server does not provide the host-

name tag, the device retains the previously set hostname.

● DNS reverse lookup—If you select DNS reverse lookup option to enter the hostname of the thin client, a reverse

DNS lookup operation is performed using the existing IPv4 address of the thin client, and the hostname is set to the

received value.

NOTE:

The previous hostname is retained if the device cannot perform a successful reverse DNS lookup operation

due to reasons such as, network connection is not established, DNS servers are not established or are invalid, and

the IP address is not in the DNS server’s list.

● Derive from MAC address—Select the Derive from MAC address option to specify the host name of the thin client.

You can specify the hostname by using the MAC address. The Ethernet of the thin client interfaces with the MAC

address. It creates the hostname by extracting the MAC address from its field separators, such as, (:) and the MAC

address is prefixed with the string LWT. For example, a device with MAC address of 00:80:64:c1:8b:14 has MAC

derived hostname as LWT008064c18b14. If you want to use the manually named device as a seed device for Merlin image

pulling, you must be cautious in specifying the hostname manually. The changed hostname is pushed to other devices and

these devices use the same hostname. Only through device factory reset, you can recover the default value by using

MAC address.

● Use the following name—This option enables you to enter your preferred hostname. When you log in to the session,

the screen displays the previous hostname in the box and in the Terminal option.

NOTE:

The hostname entered is not authenticated if the string entered has a white space. The first part of the

string up to the first white space is used to set the hostname of the devices. All white spaces at the beginning of the

string are ignored, and the maximum hostname string size is 64.

2. In the Additional entries to /etc/hosts section, you can set the device name and update the entries on the /etc/hosts

file. This option enables you to add to the preset default data, and update or delete the existing entries. To configure this

option, do the following:

a. Enter the IP address, host name,and Aliases in the respective fields.

Configuring thin client settings locally