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LonBridge Server User’s Guide 17
• An indication of the device’s state within LonBridge (the active attribute);
this attribute can have one of the following values:
o
active=true to specify that LonBridge can communicate with the
device
o
active=pending to specify that LonBridge has not yet established
communications with the device; this value is set during
LonBridge startup, while it is establishing communications with
all known devices
o
active=marginal to specify that LonBridge has temporarily lost
communications with the device, and is attempting to reestablish
communications
o
active=false to specify that LonBridge has lost communications
with the device and cannot reestablish communications
• Other attributes retrieved from the device class file (such as the
brightness attribute for a lamp).
Although you should not need to edit this file, you can use any text editor to
modify it. This file can be useful during debugging for LonBridge application
development.
You can also delete or rename the file to force the LonBridge Server to rediscover
devices. You must stop the LonBridge Server before deleting or editing the file.
If you delete the file, it will be recreated when you restart the LonBridge Server.