On the TCP/IP network, the unique IP address is assigned to each node to identify the communication target node. If the same IP address is assigned to multiple nodes, normal communication is disabled.
When cloning the system, the setting of the IP address of the copy source system is transferred to the copy destination system without change. Therefore, the IP address must be changed to avoid the duplication of the IP address between the copy destination system and the copy source system. The IP address of the monitoring destination or the IP address of the communication target also must be changed when the copy destination system is connected to the network different from the network on the copy source system. In this case, before cloning the system, list all the IP addresses that should be changed on the copy destination system, and design how the value of these IP addresses should be changed.
Later sections describe the example of how to design the network for each communication mode.
