Echelon i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Power Line - Manual (Page 52)

38 Maintaining a Power Line Repeating Network
Maintenance Overview
You can perform routine maintenance to update, repair, and optimize an installed power line repeating
network. You can use the SmartServer to maintain the network and its devices. For example, if a
device fails, you can replace it on the physical network and then logically replace it on the
SmartServer, preserving the device’s configuration.
This section describes the following network maintenance tasks you can perform with the
SmartServer:
• Analyze the power line repeating network using the Power Line Repeating Analysis Web page
• Adding devices
• Upgrade devices
• Replace devices
• Decommission devices
• Set devices offline
• Test (query and wink) devices.
• Delete devices
• Switch to LNS management mode and synchronize a network to an LNS database.
Analyzing a Power Line Repeating Network
When running on a PL-20 repeating network, the SmartServer transmits network messages to the
repeating devices with which it can directly communicate, and those repeating devices in turn relay the
messages to repeating device located further down the power line, and so on until the message reaches
the target device. The following figure illustrates a repeating chain that could be used to relay a
network management command from the SmartServer to a target device (Repeating Device 6). In this
example, the repeating chain consists of Repeating Device 1, which relays the message to Repeating
Device 3, which relays the command to Repeating Device 5, which relays the message to the target
device, which is Repeating Device 6.
You can use the Power Line Repeating Analysis Web page to view the repeating chain a device is
using to communicate with the SmartServer. In addition, you can use this Web page to analyze and
debug the power line repeating network.
To open and use the Power Line Repeating Analysis Web page, follow these steps:
7. Right-click the SmartServer icon, point to Setup, and then click Power Line Repeating
Analysis on the shortcut menu.