Echelon SmartServer 2.2 - Manual (Page 197)

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Using the SmartServer as a Synchronized OpenLNS Network Tool
You can design, install, and maintain a L ON W ORKS network with OpenLNS CT, LNS Proxy Web
service, or another OpenLNS or LNS network tool and then synchronize the SmartServer with the
OpenLNS network database. This lets you copy network variables in the OpenLNS network database
to the SmartServer’s internal database so that you can use the SmartServer tree to monitor and control
the network (see Adding Data Points to SmartServer Applications in Chapter 4 for more information
on copying data points to the SmartServer).
Once you synchronize the SmartServer to an OpenLNS network database, you can also use the
SmartServer tree to make ad-hoc changes to the network design, and install and maintain the network
using OpenLNS network management services. The SmartServer can automatically propagate the
network configuration changes to the OpenLNS network database via the LNS Proxy Web service, or
you can manually transmit the changes.
Note: You can only make network configuration changes with one network tool at a time to (for
example, OpenLNS CT or the SmartServer). After you complete OpenLNS network management
tasks with one network tool, you can then switch to another tool. In addition, if you perform OpenLNS
network management tasks with OpenLNS CT or other OpenLNS network tool, you must clear the
cache of the LNS Proxy Web service using the EES 2.2 tray tool to ensure that the OpenLNS objects in
your network tool maintain synchronization with the LNS Proxy Web service (see Chapter 3 of the
Echelon Enterprise Services 2.2 User’s Guide for how to do this).
The following graphic demonstrates the SmartServer operating while synchronized to an OpenLNS
network database: