Echelon IzoT Commissioning Tool User Manual

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Click Yes to restore the files; click No to skip restoring the files; or clear the Only Restore New
Files
check box, select one or both of the Overwrite Read-only Files and Overwrite more
Recent Files
check boxes, and click Yes. The overwrite options will replace existing files with
backup versions.

If you do not want to be prompted, in the Network Properties: Backup/Restore options
category, you can set whether IzoT Commissioning Tool automatically installs the backup files in
the Import and Types folders.

11. A message opens informing you that the network restore operation has been completed, and

prompting you to select whether to open the IzoT Commissioning Tool network in order to
recommission devices that have changed since the network was backed up.

• Click Yes if you made any changes to the network since it was backed up. This prevents the

network from behaving unpredictably if the IzoT Commissioning Tool network design is not
in sync with the physical devices.

• Click No only if changes have not been made to the configuration of the existing physical

devices on the network since it was backed up. This happens if IzoT Commissioning Tool
was OffNet the entire time, or if you added new devices and functional blocks but did not
modify any existing devices or functional blocks. The OpenLNS CT drawing will not be
opened.

12. Complete the Network Wizard by following the steps in Opening an Existing IzoT Commissioning

Tool Network Design in Chapter 3, Getting Started.

13. When you open an OpenLNS CT drawing after restoring the database from a backup file, a

message opens recommending that you recommission devices that have changed since the network
was backed up.

• Click Yes if you want IzoT Commissioning Tool to recommission all the devices in the

network. IzoT Commissioning Tool opens the restored network and starts the Network
Wizard.

• Click No if you want to use the Resynchronize command after the drawing has been opened

and select the desired scope of the recommissioning process. To recommission devices after

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