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e. Repeat steps c and d for each LNS Server computer, LonMaker computer, and IP-852 router
on the IP-852 channel
The devices on the IP-852 channel will not be fully commissioned until you run LNS applications such
as the LNS Server or LonMaker tool on each of the LNS Server or LonMaker computers. For more
information, see the LonWorks-IP Configuration Server Help file.
Creating and Opening a LonMaker Network
A LonMaker network consists of a LonMaker drawing and an LNS network database. The LonMaker
tool provides several ways to create a LonMaker network, including the following methods:
• Create a new LonMaker network design. Use this method if you are engineering a new network,
or if you want to redo the logical design of an existing network.
• Use an existing LNS database to create a LonMaker drawing. Use this method to use the
LonMaker tool with a network that was previously installed with an LNS application other than
the LonMaker tool.
• Create a LonMaker network design from an existing physical network, which creates a new LNS
network database and a LonMaker drawing. This method is called network recovery. Use this
method if the network is operational and was originally installed with an application not based on
LNS or was self-installed. You can also use this method with a network that was previously
installed with an LNS application, but does not have its original network database. The LonMaker
tool can recover a network without changing the device applications or network configuration.
See Recovering a LonMaker Network in Chapter 7, Maintaining Networks, for more information
on how to use network recovery and for a summary of the limitations of network recovery.
• Copy an existing LonMaker network design. Use this method to create a new network that is
similar to an existing network.
Creating a New LonMaker Network Design
You can create a new LonMaker network design to engineer a new network or to redo the logical
design of an existing network. To create a new network design, you must use the LonMaker tool as a
local client (the LonMaker tool is running on the same computer as the LNS server).
To create a new LonMaker network, follow these steps:
1. Click Start on the taskbar, point to Programs, point to Echelon LonMaker, and then select
LonMaker. The LonMaker Design Manager appears.
2. To use a name other than the default for the new network, enter it in the New Network box
3. Click Create Network to create the new network.
A message may appear informing you that Visio must be launched and initialized so that it can
work with the LonMaker tool. Click OK.
A warning may appear asking you if you want to enable macros. You must enable macros for the
LonMaker tool to function. See Working with Digital Signatures for more information.
4. Visio 2003 starts and the Naming page in the Network Wizard appears (unless you cleared the
Show all Options check box under the New Network box, and you cleared the check boxes for
skipping the network interface, management mode, and plug-in options pages of the Network
Wizard in the New Network Options tab of the LonMaker Design Manager).