Echelon IzoT Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 214)

Maintaining Networks Overview
You can perform routine maintenance to update, repair, and optimize an installed network. You can
maintain the network and its components, the OpenLNS CT drawing, and the OpenLNS network
database. For example, if a device or router fails, you can replace it on the physical network and then
logically replace it in the IzoT Commissioning Tool network, preserving the device’s configuration
and all of its connections.
This chapter describes the following device and network maintenance tasks:
• Loading devices.
• Replacing devices.
• Decommissioning devices.
• Resynchronizing device configuration properties.
• Propagating device configuration property values by using IzoT Commissioning Tool as a passive
configuration tool.
• Backing up and restoring the network.
• Recovering the network.
• Synchronizing the network.
• Merging networks.
Tip: You can perform device maintenance tasks on multiple devices at one time. The manner in which
you select multiple devices depends on the desired network scope of the task.
• To select multiple devices within a subsystem, hold down CTRL and click the devices, or click an
empty space in the drawing page and drag a selection net around them. Then right-click one of the
selected devices, point to Commissioning on the shortcut menu, and select the desired
maintenance task.
• To select all the devices within a subsystem, select or clear the Exclude Nested Subsystems from
Subsystem Operations check box to exclude or include, respectively, the subsystems nested
within the selected subsystem (to access this option, right-click the Subsystem SmartShape, or an
empty space in the network if you are in the top-level subsystem, and select Subsystem
Properties from the shortcut menu). Then right-click the Subsystem SmartShape, or an empty
space in the drawing page if you are in the top-level subsystem, point to Commissioning on the
shortcut menu, and select the desired maintenance task.
• To select all the devices within a network, right-click an empty space in the drawing page of the
top-level subsystem, point to Commissioning on the shortcut menu, and then select the desired
maintenance task.
Loading Devices
You can load a new application image, and optionally a new Neuron firmware image, into an
application device.
You can load an application with a device template that is the same as or different from the original
device. When you load an application, you can create a new device template from a device interface
(XIF) file on the OpenLNS Server or a XIF file in the device. If you load an application with a new or
different device template, the new application must use a different program ID than the original
application.
If you load a compatible application image into a device that you have configured and connected to
other devices, IzoT Commissioning Tool will preserve all compatible configuration and connection
information. You can load an application image file with an .apb or .nxe extension.
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