Creating a Network with the IzoT Commissioning Tool
You can create a CPM 4200 device that installs itself using the Interoperable
Self-Installation (ISI) protocol, or you can create a device that is installed
with a network management tool. You can also create a device that
supports both installation methods, that is, you can create a device that
installs itself in self-installed networks, or is installed by a network
management tool in a managed network.
For installation into a managed network, you can use the IzoT Commissioning
Tool (CT) or another tool that can install and monitor LonTalk/IP or LON
devices. See the IzoT Commissioning Tool User's
Guide for more information about IzoT CT. However, if your CPM
4200 device supports the Interoperable Self-Installation (ISI) protocol,
a network management tool is not required.
To install a CPM 4200 device in a network with IzoT CT, follow these
steps:
- If you have not installed the OpenLNS Commissioning Tool and the
IzoT Net Server, install them as described in
Installing the IzoT CPM 4200 SDK. The IzoT Commissioning Tool
is what you have installed after you install both OpenLNS CT and the
IzoT Net Server. In any dialogs, it is still called the OpenLNS Commissioning
Tool or OpenLNS CT.
- Click the Windows Start menu, type OpenLNS
in the search box, and then click the OpenLNS
Commissioning Tool link under Programs.
- Enter a name for the network in the Network Name box. The figure
above has a network name of CPM 4200
Test, and then click Create
Network. The following dialog appears:
- Select Network Attached,
select the LonTalk/IP interface you created as described in Installing
the IzoT CPM 4200 SDK as the Network
Interface Name, and then click Next.
and The following dialog appears:
- Select OnNet and then click
Finish. An initial network
drawing with your network interface and a single channel appears.
- Right-click the channel and then click Properties.
The following dialog appears:
- Change the Channel Name
to a name that identifies it as a LAN channel such as LAN
or WiFi, change the Transceiver Type to IP-10L,
and then click OK.
- Drag a Device shape from the OpenLNS CT Basic Shapes stencil or
the NodeBuilder Basic Shapes stencil to the drawing. The following
dialog appears:
- Change Device Name to a
name that identifies your device, such as Chiller
in the above example, and ensure that Commission
Device, Create New Deice Template,
and Auto Detect Channel are
all selected, and then click Next.
The following dialog appears:
- Ensure Upload from Device
is selected, and then click Next
and the following dialog appears:
- Click Next and the following
dialog appears:
- Click Next and the following
dialog appears:
- Click Next and the following
dialog appears:
- Ensure that Online is selected
as the State, and then click
Finish. The following dialog
appears:
- Press the Service button on your CPM 4200 device. On a CPM 4200
EVB, the Service button is labelled SW1 and is the lower right hand
button of the bank of four buttons. The device sends a Service message
that IzoT CT receives, and then IzoT CT commissions the device into
the network.
- Drag a Functional Block shape from the OpenLNS CT Basic Shapes
or the NodeBuilder Basic Shapes stencil stencil to the drawing and
the following dialog appears:
- Select a functional block from your device as the Functional
Block Instance, ensure that Create
all Network Variable Shapes is selected, and then click Finish. IzoT CT adds the functional
block to the drawing, similar to the following figure:
- Right-click the new functional block and then click Browse.
The IzoT CT Browser opens.
- Click the Monitor All On
button in the toolbar. It is the button immediately to the left
of the hand icon, which is the Monitor
All Off button. You can now use the IzoT CT Browser to monitor
the network inputs and outputs for your device, and to update any
of the network inputs. The network inputs are highlighted in blue
(for datapoint inputs) or green (for property inputs). The IzoT CT
Browser is a separate application from your drawing, so you can return
to your drawing and make more changes to the network while the IzoT
CT Browser remains open.
- You can add additional functional blocks, devices, routers, and
channels to the IzoT CT drawing. You can also add connections to enable
devices in your network to communicate by exchanging datapoints using
the connections that you define. See the IzoT
Commissioning Tool User's Guide for more information.