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major advantage of using the Setup - LON Device Driver Web page to manage a device is that
you can enable smart network management for one property or a set of properties. The
SmartServer will then automatically issue the appropriate network management commands and set
the device properties to the state considered to be desired. See Chapter 5, Using the SmartServer
as a Network Management Tool, for more information on configuring devices with the Setup -
LON Device Driver Web page and using smart network management to install and auto-manage
devices.
Using Device Templates
You can configure a device in the SmartServer tree or OpenLNS tree, save it to a device template
(.XML file) that is stored on the SmartServer flash disk or your computer, and then use the device
template to create new devices that have a specific pre-defined configuration. You can also use device
templates to automate the creation of external data points on the SmartServer (this feature provides the
functionality offered by the i.LON 100 PointFactory Plug-in, which is compatible with the e2 and e3
releases of the i.LON 100 software).
This section describes how to perform the following tasks related to using device templates:
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Create device templates.
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Create devices from templates.
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Create external data points from a device template.
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Copy device templates to another SmartServer.
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Delete device templates on a SmartServer.
Creating Device Templates
You can save one device to a template at a time. The template will include the device, and it will
include the functional blocks and data points currently displayed in the device tree. The template saves
the current driver properties of the device and the functional blocks, and it saves the current
configuration and driver properties of the data points.
Note: If you save the SmartServer’s internal App device [i.LON App (Internal)] to a template, the
configurations of the built-in applications (for example, Data Logger, Scheduler, and so on) will not be
preserved in the template. The template will include the functional blocks on the SmartServer App
device that were displayed in the SmartServer tree at the time the template was created and it will
include their data points, but the actual applications will be unconfigured.
You can configure the SmartServer’s built-in applications on a single source SmartServer, and then
automatically or manually deploy that SmartServer App device configuration to one or more target
SmartServers. You can automatically deploy the SmartServer App device configuration using the
i.LON AdminServer (see Chapter 2 of the Echelon Enterprise Services 2.2 User’s Guide for more
information). You can manually deploy it by copying the SmartServer App device’s XML file to the
target SmartServers via FTP (see Manually Deploying a Network Configuration on Multiple
SmartServers in Appendix D for more information on how to do this).
To create a device template, follow these steps:
1. To automatically install devices created from the device template, follow these steps:
a. Erase the Neuron ID of the source device. To do this, right-click the source device, point to
Manage, and then click Release Neuron ID in the shortcut menu. This decommissions the
source device.
b. Logically detach the network interface from the network. To do this, click Driver, click the
network in the navigation pane, clear the Use Network Interface check box in the Setup –
LON Network Driver Web page, and then click Submit. This prevents the SmartServer
from associating a Neuron ID with the device template when you complete step d.
c. Open the source device’s Setup – LON Device Driver Web page. To do this, click Driver
and then click the source device in the navigation pane.