Specifying IDs, IP Addresses and Hostnames for Multiple Containers

If you are creating several Containers within one session, the screen displayed after the first one, where you have defined the general settings according to which the Containers creation process is to be carried on, is Create New Containers: Multiple Configuration. There are three sections, but it is the general settings made on the first step that determine these sections actual layout and whether they are displayed or not.The sections are:

1. The sections displayed if you have selected the "start from the one specified" method of assigning the Containers IDs, Hostnames and IP addresses: Container ID Selection, Container Hostnames Selection, Container IP Address Selection.
2. The Container1, Container2 ... sections, displayed if you have selected to manually assign some or all of these parameters, placed, in this case, under these sections.

When assigning Containers hostnames, please notice the Template should contain <ctid> tag inside mark under the hostname field. This tag will be used for all the Containers you are creating as a variable to be automatically filled with fitting IDs. This means that if you are creating 4 Containers, have entered MYCT<ctid> for the hostname and 105 is the biggest ID of the Containers in your Containers list, then, after you are through with creating Containers, this list will be populated with four newly created Containers with the hostnames MYCT106, MYCT107, MYCT108 and MYCT109.

The IP addresses can be assigned, if at all, either manually or on the "start from the one specified" basis, which means entering an IP address only once for the 1st Container of the Containers you are creating, with all the rest of the Containers IP addresses being calculated from this one. If you are creating 4 Containers and entered 10.10.0.1 to the Assign Container IP Address Starting From field, then the Containers will be created with IP addresses of 10.10.0.1, 10.10.0.2, 10.10.0.3 and 10.10.0.4.

Even when assigning IP addresses on the "start from the one specified" basis you can both enter the necessary IP addresses to the IP address fields or, if your IP assigning principle has yet to be refined, leave them as they are to per-Container assign IP addresses later. (On the same screen you will be able to change each Container hostname.)

To add an IP address, click the button near the IP Address field, to delete an IP address, click the button.

Clicking the Next button opens the subsequent step of creation new Containers.

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