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Home  Basic Usage Hosts
NetDirector allows you to manage the /.etc/hosts file on your systems.
One of the Multiple Server Files is the Hosts option. This allows you to manage your hosts file (/etc/hosts) on one or more systems.
To manage your hosts:
- Select the System Info button on the top right-hand menu.
- Select the servers you want to manage.
- Click Hosts.
 - You will see a hosts pane that lists the hosts on the servers:
From here you can do the following: Add a new entry, update a selected entry or delete a selected entry. To Add or Update an entry:
- If you click Add New Entry or Update Selected, you will see similar screens with the same configuration parameters. Here we will add a new entry by clicking on Add New Entry:
Configuration options for new hosts or updates to current entries are IP address, hostname and aliases. In a typical /etc/hosts file, you will find the same information - an IP address, then a hostname and aliases separated by spaces or tabs:
[root@RHEL4-AS ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 RHEL4-AS localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.91 emu1.emusoftware.com emu1
[root@RHEL4-AS ~]#
- Configure the hosts information for your new entry.
- Once the entry is configured, click Save, then click Back to go back to the main Hosts screen.
- The screen will look a little different:
You will see the new entry in the list, and an added Description textbox on the screen.
- If you wish, enter descriptive text about the change. Then, click Save & Apply to apply the change to the servers selected. Once saved and applied, the Description field is no longer available.
To delete an entry:
- Select the checkbox for the entry you wish to delete
- Click Delete Selected
- The entry will no longer appear in the list, and a Description textbox will be added to the screen. Enter descriptive text on the change (e.g. "Deleted einstein server from southwest region") and click Save & Apply to apply the change to the servers selected. Once saved and applied, the Description field is no longer available.
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