Echelon LNS - Manual (Page 9)

LNS Programmer's Guide vii
Monitoring and Transactions ...............................................................................................66
Using Transactions With Collections...................................................................................66
Managing Sessions.......................................................................................................................67
Event Handling...................................................................................................................................67
Exception Handling............................................................................................................................70
Terminating an LNS Application......................................................................................................71
Chapter 5 - Network Management : Installing a Network ........................................................ 73
LNS Network Installation Scenarios ................................................................................................74
Installation Scenarios..................................................................................................................75
Engineered Mode Installation ..............................................................................................76
Ad Hoc Installation ...............................................................................................................76
Automatic Installation ..........................................................................................................76
Engineered Mode................................................................................................................................77
Definition Phase...........................................................................................................................77
Commissioning Phase..................................................................................................................81
Commissioning Phase, Multiple Networks..........................................................................84
Ad Hoc Installation ............................................................................................................................85
Automatic Installation .......................................................................................................................89
Discovering and Installing Devices ............................................................................................91
Discovering When New Devices are Attached to the Network ..........................................91
Installing Devices ..................................................................................................................93
Discovering When Devices are Detached or Replaced........................................................96
System Management Mode Considerations .....................................................................................97
lcaMgmtModePropagateConfigUpdates.....................................................................................97
lcaMgmtModeDeferConfigUpdates.............................................................................................98
Intended Usage of the System Management Mode ...................................................................98
Changing the System Management Mode .................................................................................99
Tracking Device Updates......................................................................................................99
Tracking System Management Mode Changes ...................................................................100
Affects on Network Management Methods and Properties................................................100
Chapter 6 - Network Management: Defining, Commissioning and Connecting
Devices
................................................................................................................................................. 103
Defining, Commissioning and Connecting Devices..........................................................................104
Device Interfaces ................................................................................................................................104
Program IDs and DeviceTemplate Objects ................................................................................106
Device Resource Files ..................................................................................................................107
Scope Selectors ......................................................................................................................108
The Bigger Picture .......................................................................................................................110
Maintaining Device Interfaces With LNS..................................................................................112
Defining and Commissioning Devices...............................................................................................113
Creating AppDevice Objects........................................................................................................113
Neuron ID Assignment................................................................................................................115
Service Pin .............................................................................................................................115
Find and Wink .......................................................................................................................117
Manual Entry ........................................................................................................................119
Loading Device Application Images ...........................................................................................119
Post-Load State .....................................................................................................................120
Reloading a Device's Application .........................................................................................121
Commissioning Devices ...............................................................................................................121
Using the Commission and Commission Ex Methods ........................................................122
Device Validation Options ....................................................................................................123
Device Configuration Considerations ..................................................................................124