Echelon IzoT Commissioning Tool User Manual

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4. Enter the following information:

Location

Specifies a 6-byte location string that documents the device’s
location within the network.

To store the device’s subsystem ID in

this field, follow these steps:

1.

Click Add-ins, point to IzoT Commissioning Tool, and then
click OpenLNS Options. Select Recovery from the options
category list and then select the

Set Location Property to

Subsystem ID check box under Subsystem Recovery Options.

2. Resynchronize the network. When you resynchronize the

network, select the Update Location Path and ID in Devices
check box in the Synchronize OpenLNS CT Drawing dialog.
The device’s current subsystem ID will be stored in this field.
The IzoT Commissioning Tool tool can then use this
information to place devices in their correct subsystems in the
event you need to use the OpenLNS database Recovery Wizard
to recover a lost network database.

See Recovering an IzoT Commissioning Tool Network in
Chapter 7, Maintaining Networks, for more information on the
network recovery process.

If the Set Location Property to Subsystem ID check box is
cleared,

you can enter an optional location description for the device.

You can enter up to 6 ASCII text characters, or up to 12 hex digits.

If you do not specify a value and the Set Location Property to
Subsystem ID
check box in the Network Properties: Recovery
options category is cleared, the current value in the device will be
uploaded into this field and stored in the OpenLNS database when
the device is commissioned.

Ping Interval

Enables the OpenLNS Server to ping the device periodically.
Pinging verifies that a device is still operating and communicating

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