CTI Products NCB/FL with Fiber Interface - Manual (Page 11)

CTI Products, Inc. NCB-EL/FL User Guide
2. Installation 8
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NSTALL
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C
ONFIGURATION
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This step installs the .XIF file for the Control Neuron Processor and the EtherPlug configuration software. The
EtherPlug configuration software will be used to configure IP address parameters of NCB modules, and is
included on the CDROM shipped with the NCB units. EtherPlug is a Windows application compatible with
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. It can run in either standalone mode directly from the Windows Start menu
and requiring only a serial COM port, or in PlugIn mode from within an LNS application such as LonMaker for
Windows.
Install EtherPlug on your PC:
• Insert the EtherPlug CDROM in your CDROM drive.
• Click the Windows Start button, choose “Run...”, click Browse… , select the “Setup.exe”
application in the EtherPlug directory on the CDROM, and click Open .
• Follow the instructions displayed by the “Setup” application.
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ETWORK
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ATABASE
An NCB consists of a standard L ON W ORKS router and a Control Neuron Processor. Both of these devices
should be added to the database of the network management tool. The XIF file for the Control Neuron
Processor is copied to the
L ON W ORKS /import directory by the EtherPlug installation process. If you did not
install the EtherPlug software in Step 1, the XIF file can be copied directly from the EtherPlug CDROM.
The following actions are described assuming LonMaker for Windows is used as the network management tool.
For information on usage of other network management tools, see Technical Note TN026 “NCB Installation
with Network Management Tools”.
If LonMaker for Windows is being used as the network management tool, be sure that the EtherPlug plug-in is
registered into the network when the network is created, or use the LonMaker – Network Properties – Plugin
Registration menu within an existing LonMaker network database to register EtherPlug.
Since the standard L ON W ORKS router portion of an NCB
interfaces a L ON W ORKS channel to an Ethernet channel, it
requires connection to two channels on the LonMaker drawing.
A standard L
ON W ORKS channel will be connected to Side B of
the router (corresponding to the NETWORK connector on the
front of the NCB), and a CUSTOM (Ethernet) channel will be
connected to Side A of the router (corresponding to the 10BaseT
or AUI connector of the rear of the NCB). The Control Neuron
Processor is connected to the CUSTOM (Ethernet) channel.
A) Add a CUSTOM channel to the network drawing (this will
be the Ethernet WAN channel):
• Drag the Channel shape to the drawing. The
“Channel Definition” window will be displayed as
shown to the right.
• Specify the desired “Channel Name”.
• In the “Transceiver Type” field, click the down
arrow and select CUSTOM.
• In the “Delay” section, choose “Specify”, and enter
an initial value of 150ms. This value will be
optimized later: When the IP network is complete,
the IP ping function can be used to determine the