HP Manager Software manual Setting Up DNS Basic Properties

230CHAPTER 5: CONFIGURING WX SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS

6Do one of the following:

„Go to “Configuring DNS” on page 230.

„Select another item in the WX Switch wizard, if you are using this wizard.

„Click Finish to close the wizard and save changes.

Configuring DNS You can configure the WX switch to resolve hostnames to their IP addresses by querying a Domain Name Service (DNS) server. By enabling DNS, you can specify a hostname rather than an IP address. For example, rather than typing telnet 10.1.2.3, you could type telnet monterey.example.com. By default, DNS is not enabled. You can specify one primary DNS server and up to five secondary DNS servers.

You configure DNS by performing the following tasks:

„Enable the DNS client and configure a default domain name for DNS queries.

„Specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers.

Setting Up DNS Basic Properties

To set up DNS basic properties:

1Do one of the following:

„Open the WX Switch wizard, then select DNS under IP Services in the organizer list of the System and Administrative page.

„In the Organizer panel, select IP Services under a WX switch, then select Config > Edit. The Modify IP Services wizard appears. Click on DNS at the top of the wizard.

2To enable DNS, select Enabled. To disable DNS, clear Enabled.

3If you disabled DNS in step 2, go to step 5. Otherwise, go to the next step.

4In the Default DNS Domain box, type the default domain suffix that is appended to a hostname if the hostname cannot be resolved as entered. The suffix can be up to 64 characters long with no spaces or tabs.

5Do one of the following:

„Go to “Adding DNS Servers”.

„Select another item in the WX Switch wizard, if you are using this wizard.