Avaya S8710 Home Theater Server User Manual


 
Configuring the media server
38 Installing and Configuring the Avaya S8700 or S8710 Media Server
June 2004
Verifying media server connection to the
customer’s LAN (if provided)
To verify media server connection to the customer’s LAN:
1 Under Diagnostics, click Ping.
2 Select "Host Name Or IP Address" and type in the IP address of a computer on the network.
3 Click Execute Ping.
4 Verify that the ping was successful, indicating that the media server is connected to the customer’s
network.
5 If DNS is administered, type in the host name of a computer on the network.
6 Click Execute Ping.
7 Verify that the ping was successful, indicating that DNS is working.
If available, have a customer representative do the following test from a computer on the network:
8 Click Start > Run to open the Run dialog box.
9 Type command and click OK to open an MS-DOS command window.
10 Type ping serveripaddress and click OK, where serveripaddress is the IP address of the media
server.
11 Verify that the ping was successful.
12 If DNS is administered, type ping servername and press Enter, where servername is the host
name of the media server.
13 Verify that the ping was successful.