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with the e2 and e3 releases of the i.LON 100 software. For more information on using device
templates to copy external data points to the SmartServer, see Creating External Data Points from
Device Templates in Chapter 4, Using the SmartServer Web Interface.
6. The data points and their parent channels, devices, and functional blocks are added to the network
tree of the target SmartServer. The parent objects are only added if they do not already exist in the
internal database of the target SmartServer.
7. Copying data points from the OpenLNS tree to the SmartServer tree also creates or updates the
data points and their parent objects in the SmartServer’s internal database. Specifically, new or
updated XML files representing the general and L
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and their parent objects are saved to the /config/network/<Network>/<Channel>/<Device> folder
on the SmartServer’s flash disk. This means that you can now directly make changes to these
objects in the SmartServer tree, and they will be propagated to the OpenLNS network database
(the changes are propagated automatically if you are using LNS Auto mode, or they are
propagated when you manually synchronize the SmartServer to the OpenLNS network database).