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Before You Configure NIC Hosts

When you use NIC in a client/server configuration, you configure the NIC hosts before you configure the NIC proxies.

Before you configure NIC hosts:

• Install and configure the main SDX components, such as SAEs and the directory.

See SDX Getting Started Guide.

• Install the sample data.

See SDX Getting Started Guide, Chapter 6, Defining an Initial Configuration.

• Install the NIC software (UMCnic package) on each system that is to support a NIC host.
  

  NOTE: A machine can support only one NIC host.

  
  
• Understand how to use SDX Configuration Editor to create new configuration files, modify configuration files, and export files to the directory.
• Ensure that the appropriate type of router initialization script is configured for the router or network device.

See Router Initialization Scripts with NIC Configuration Scenarios.