Echelon OpenLNS - Manual (Page 556)

OpenLNS Programmer's Reference 519
collection.
If this method is being invoked by a remote client, the
application program must set the remote NetworkInterface
for the ObjectServer (ObjectServer.ActiveRemoteNI) before
invoking this method. Additionally, the OpenLNS Server
must be running on the computer containing the OpenLNS
Network Database.
A network obtained from the VNINetworks collection cannot
be opened with this method. It must instead be opened using
the OpenIndependent method. Opening a network in
server-independent allows the network to be monitored and
controlled using MonitorSet objects without communicating
with the OpenLNS Server.
If you will be opening any networks with an OpenLNS
application that is running as a Windows service, then the
first application to open the OpenLNS Object Server must
also be running as a Windows service. In addition, if a
network is to be opened by an OpenLNS application that is
running as Windows service, then that network and system
must be opened by an OpenLNS application that is running
as Windows service before it is opened with an OpenLNS
application running as a user process.
If you open the OpenLNS Object Server or a network with a
user process before opening it with a service, you must first
close the network and OpenLNS Object Server before
opening them with an OpenLNS application that is running
as Windows service.
To avoid these problems, Echelon recommends that if an
OpenLNS network is to be opened by a service, that service
should be started automatically, and should open the
network and systems that it will be accessing on startup,
thus ensuring that the network is opened by the service
before a user process .
Availability Local, full, and lightweight clients.
Syntax network. Open
Element Description
network The Network object to be opened.
Added to API Prior to LNS Release 3.0.
OpenIndependent
Summary Opens the OpenLNS network database in server-independent
mode.
You may only call this method from networks fetched from
the VNINetworks collection. When a network is opened in
server-independent mode, you can monitor and control
monitor sets which have previously been defined on this