Echelon OpenLDV - Manual (Page 13)

OpenLDV Programmer’s Guide 5
connections with a group of remote networks. For example, you could have
hundreds of remote networks, each of which has a SmartServer attached. At
your service center, your monitoring tool could use the OpenLDV driver to listen
for session requests from these networks and send messages to remote devices.
The OpenLDV driver includes a default xDriver profile. You can use the default
xDriver profile for your OpenLDV applications, or you can use the xDriver Profile
Editor to create a custom xDriver profile for your OpenLDV applications; see
Chapter 5, Using the xDriver Default Profile, on page 93.
You can configure each xDriver profile to provide your application with
information identifying the network interface that has requested a network
session. Thus, you can program your application to quickly identify the source of
the session request, and respond to a variety of different alarm conditions. See
Configuring an xDriver Profile on page 94 for more information about the xDriver
profile.
Installing the OpenLDV Software
The following sections describe the requirements for downloading the OpenLDV
software, installing it, and using the OpenLDV software.
Hardware and Software Requirements
To install and use the OpenLDV 4.0 software, your computer must meet the
following minimum requirements, in addition to those imposed by your operating
system:
• 512 MB RAM (or the Windows operating system minimum requirement)
• Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit),
Windows Vista ® (32-bit), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), or Windows XP
SP3
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• 50 MB of available hard-disk space
• 1024x768 screen resolution
Downloading the OpenLDV Software
You can download the OpenLDV driver and SDK from Echelon’s Web site at
www.echelon.com/downloads .
The OpenLDV driver installer (OpenLDV400.exe) installs the OpenLDV driver,
the L ON W ORKS Interfaces application in the Windows Control Panel, and the
xDriver Profile Editor.
You can incorporate the OpenLDV driver installer into your OpenLDV
application’s installation, either as a standalone component that your end-users
will install, or as a component that your overall software installer will install.
The OpenLDV runtime installer is based on Microsoft Installer 3.1. If the
computer onto which you are installing the OpenLDV driver uses an older
version of Microsoft Installer, the OpenLDV driver installation will update the
computer to use version 3.1.