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Change the IP Address

Change the IP address of the management console to meet your needs. You must specify an IPv4 address in four-part, dotted-decimal notation.

When you change the IP address, the management console prompts you before automatically updating its monitoring devices to use the new IP address. Monitoring is temporarily interrupted while the management console-related services are restarted.

If the IP address of the monitor NIC is not routable, you do not need to change it.

Follow these steps:

1. Before you start, log out of the management console.
2. On the management console computer, log into Windows and complete the following tasks:
   1. Update the management NIC properties to specify its IPv4 address in four-part, dotted-decimal notation.
   2. In the Services Control Panel, restart the CA ADA-related services.
   3. Log off.
3. In a Web browser, log into the management console.

   The management console notifies you that the IP address of the management console has changed and prompts you to choose the IP address you want to use:

   1. Select the new IP address and choose the option to notify all monitoring devices of the new IP address.
   2. Click OK.
4. Verify the monitoring devices are communicating with the updated IP address of the Console:
   1. Click the Administration page.
   2. Click Data Monitoring, Monitoring Devices in the Show Me menu.
   3. Scroll to the ADA Monitoring Device List and verify each monitor has a status of Running.

   If necessary, click the blue gear menu and click Set Console, then click Synchronize Monitor Devices to update the IP address of the management console on all monitoring devices.