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Note: For more information on creating L ON W ORKS connections with the LNS tree, including
how to validate and delete them, see Chapter 5 of the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 User’s Guide.
Connecting FPM Data Points with the LonMaker Tool
You can use the LonMaker tool to create L ON W ORKS connections with the data points declared in your
FPM application. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Verify that you have completed the following steps:
a. Installed Echelon Enterprise Services and LNS Server/Turbo Edition SP4 (required if you
installed Echelon Enterprise Services SR2) on the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 DVD or the i.LON
SmartServer 2.0 Programming Tools DVD.
b. Added an LNS Server to the LAN.
c. Configured the SmartServer to use LNS network management services (LNS Auto or LNS
Manual) and synchronized the SmartServer to an LNS network database.
See Using LNS Network Management Services earlier in this chapter for how to do complete these
steps.
2. Verify that you have commissioned the FPM device using the SmartServer or an LNS application
such as the LonMaker tool. See Commissioning FPM Devices earlier in this chapter for how to do
this.
3. Connect the data points in your FPM application using either the Connector shape in the
LonMaker Basic Shapes stencil, the Connector tool on the Visio Standard toolbar, or the
Network Variable Connection dialog box. See the LonMaker User’s Guide for more
information on creating L
ON W ORKS connections with these methods.
4. Monitor the L ON W ORKS connections to observe that the data points in the FPM application and
the data points on the devices to which the FPM data points are bound are being updated
accordingly.
Creating Web Connections
You can connect the data points in your FPM application using Web connections. You can use Web
connections if you want to use polled updates to process data point values, or you can use them if you
are running the network with the SmartServer operating in Standalone mode (L
ON W ORKS connections
are not supported in this mode). Typically, you will create two types of Web connections:
• Output data points on the SmartServer or external devices (the source data points) to the input data
points declared in the FPM application (the target data points).
• Output data points declared in the FPM application (the source data points) to the input data points
on the SmartServer, input data points in another FPM application, or the input data points on
external devices connected to the SmartServer (the target data points).