Creating a lonworks network, Creating an openlns ct drawing, Creating a l – Echelon IzoT Commissioning Tool User Manual
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Creating a L
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network and then install it using IzoT Commissioning Tool. To design a
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network with IzoT Commissioning Tool, you create an OpenLNS CT drawing. This
entails adding IzoT Commissioning Tool SmartShapes for channels, routers, devices, and functional
blocks; making logical connections between devices so they can send and receive data to and from
each other; and organizing the network into subsystems. You can add IzoT Commissioning Tool
SmartShapes at any time under any installation scenario—you can add IzoT Commissioning Tool
SmartShapes while you are offsite designing the network, or you can add them when you are onsite
commissioning devices and performing network maintenance.
To install the network, you commission the application devices and routers in it. Commissioning
associates the device SmartShapes created in the OpenLNS CT drawing with the physical devices on
the network.
This chapter describes how to create an OpenLNS CT drawing. Commissioning devices is covered in
Chapter 5, Installing Networks.
Creating an OpenLNS CT Drawing
To create an OpenLNS CT drawing, you add application devices, routers, functional blocks, and other
IzoT Commissioning Tool objects to the drawing page. To add an IzoT Commissioning Tool object,
you drag its IzoT Commissioning Tool SmartShape from a stencil onto the drawing page. If required,
the appropriate wizard will then open and guide you through the process of creating that SmartShape.
The following sections describe how to create the objects in the IzoT Commissioning Tool Basic
Shapes stencil.
Notes:
• Several of the SmartShapes in the IzoT Commissioning Tool Basic Shapes stencil are discussed
elsewhere in this user’s guide. For creating Network Service Device SmartShapes, see Using
Network Service Device SmartShapes in Chapter 3, Getting Started; for creating Data Point
SmartShapes, see Using Data Point SmartShapes in Chapter 6, Monitoring and Controlling
Networks; and for using the Network Merge SmartShape, see Merging IzoT Commissioning Tool
Networks in Chapter 7, Maintaining Networks.
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