Echelon i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Power Line - Manual (Page 74)

60 Maintaining a Power Line Repeating Network
3. Click Submit.
Deleting Devices
You can delete a device to logically remove it from the network. To do this, right-click the device, and
then click Delete. The device is removed from the SmartServer. If you delete a device that was
serving as a repeating agent, the SmartServer automatically identifies alternate repeating devices to
relay network messages to those target devices that were using the deleted device in their repeating
chains.
Switching to LNS Mode and Synchronizing to an LNS Database
You can switch the SmartServer from standalone to LNS mode and then synchronize the network
attached to the SmartServer to an LNS database.
You may want to switch a power line repeating network to LNS mode if you determine that the
repeating function is not required. A scenario in which this may occur is if you originally designed the
network as part of a mixed-distribution system (for example, street lighting and homes). In this case
repeating would be required to overcome the noise generated by the devices in the homes on the
system. If the system architecture was changed to dedicated distribution (street lighting only), the
repeating function might not be required anymore and LNS services could be used to manage the
network.
After you switch a power line repeating network from standalone to LNS mode, you can select an LNS
database on an LNS Server to be synchronized to the network. The changes made to the LNS database
depend on whether it is empty (contains only the default “LNS Network Interface” and default
“Channel 1”).
• If the LNS database is empty, the following changes are made to it:
o The domain length and domain ID properties in the database are changed to those currently
used by the network attached to the SmartServer;
o The default “Channel 1” in the database is re-named to the name of the first L ON W ORKS
channel on the SmartServer tree, which is usually “LON”.
o The transceiver type in the database is changed to the one used on the first L ON W ORKS
channel.
o All other LONWORKS CHANNELS and devices on the SmartServer tree are merged into the
database.