Echelon OpenLNS Commissioning Tool User Manual

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more than 85 characters long. If you are creating one or two new
channels, specify the channel type for each channel in the Type box.

3. Click Next. The Router Properties window opens.

4. Enter the following information:

Location

Specifies the 6-byte location string for the router, which
documents the router’s location within the network.

To store the router’s subsystem ID in

this field, follow these

steps:

3.

Click Add-ins, point to OpenLNS CT, 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
.

4. 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 router’s current subsystem ID will be
stored in this field. The OpenLNS CT 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 OpenLNS CT 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 a location description for the router. You

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

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