4.4.1.1. Procedure – Best practice: Saving the MAC address of the machine in Zorp 6 for later use in Zorp 7

Purpose: 

To determine the MAC address of the machine in Zorp 6 so that you can use it after reinstalling your hosts to Zorp version 7, complete the following steps.

Make sure that you are still using Zorp version 6 during this procedure.

Prerequisites: 

The Networking component in Zorp 6 must be in the Running state.

Steps: 

1. Login to the ZMS Engine with ZMC.

2. Determine and copy the MAC address of a machine.

   1. Select a Networking component

   2. On the Interfaces tab, in the Network interface configuration list, select an interface that has static as the value of the Type column.

   3. Right-click on the interface and click Status Details...

   4. Select and right-click the value of the ether parameter and copy that value. This is be the MAC address of the machine.

   5. Click Close.

3. Paste the MAC address of the machine.

   1. To edit the interface properties, under the Network interface configuration list, click Edit.

   2. In the Description field, paste the previously copied value (MAC address). Make sure to prefix this pasted value with _MAC: _. If there is a pre-existing value in the Description field, paste it before that value.

   3. Click OK.

4. Repeat Step 2 and 3 for all static Networking interfaces.

5. To commit your changes, click Commit changes.

6. To upload your changes, click Upload current configuration.

7. Navigate to Configuration and click Mark as Running. This will set the state of the Networking component to Running without having to Reload or Restart the networking service. Therefore, this procedure can be performed without service outage, because you have only changed the description of the interface, and this does not affect the operation of network interfaces.