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• Backup/Restore
• Configuration Properties
• Device
• Functional Blocks
• General
• Naming Options
• Network Explorer
• NV Browser/Monitoring
• OpenLNS Events
• IzoT Commissioning Tool Font
• Recovery
• Service Pin
• SmartShape ToolTips
• Synchronization
• Warnings
Appendix A details the defaults you can set under each network properties options category.
Setting Up a Network Interface
To attach your IzoT Commissioning Tool computer to a L ON W ORKS network, you must define and
configure an OpenLDV 4.0-compatible network interface or an IP-852 network interface before
starting IzoT Commissioning Tool. Network interfaces include the following:
• RNIs: SmartServer, i.LON 100 Internet Server, i.LON 600 IP-852 Router, and i.LON 10 Ethernet
Adapter.
• IP-852 network interfaces: SmartServer (with IP-852 routing option), i.LON 100 Internet Server
(with IP-852 routing option), and i.LON 600 IP-852 Router.
• Local USB network interfaces: U10/U20 USB network interfaces.
• Local PC card network interfaces: PCC-10 and PCLTA-10, 20, and 21 PCI network interfaces
(32-bit versions of Windows only).
• Serial network interface: SLTA-10 serial interface (32-bit versions of Windows only).
You can use the L ON W ORKS Interfaces application in the Control Panel to define, configure, and test
these OpenLDV 4.0 network interfaces.
Optimizing Network Interface Performance
To optimize the performance of IzoT Commissioning Tool when your IzoT Commissioning Tool
computer is attached to a L
ON W ORKS network, use an OpenLNS high performance network interface
(RNI, U10/U20 USB network interface, IP-852 network interface, or other network interface with a
Layer 2 MIP), if available. If you are using a PL-20 power line channel or another slow channel, you
can use a legacy interface to limit network overhead (a high performance network interface may
saturate the channel).
Using an IP-852 Network Interface
You can use an IP-852 channel to implement a L ON W ORKS control network over an IP network and
integrate multiple native L ON W ORKS networks into one large network that uses a high-speed IP-852
channel as a backbone. If you are attaching your IzoT Commissioning Tool computer to an IP-852
channel, you can set up an IP-852 interface and create the IP-852 channel following these steps:
1. Ensure that all of your IP-852 devices (for example, the OpenLNS Server computer, one or more
IzoT Commissioning Tool computers, and one or more IP-852 routers) all have static IP addresses
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