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Designing Networks
Creating a L
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network and then install it using OpenLNS CT. To design a
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network with OpenLNS CT, you create an OpenLNS CT drawing. This entails adding
OpenLNS CT SmartShapes for channels, routers, devices, and functional blocks; making logical
connections between devices so they can send and receive data to and from each other; and organizing
the network into subsystems. You can add OpenLNS CT SmartShapes at any time under any
installation scenario—you can add OpenLNS CT SmartShapes while you are offsite designing the
network, or you can add them when you are onsite commissioning devices and performing network
maintenance.
To install the network, you commission the application devices and routers in it. Commissioning
associates the device SmartShapes created in the OpenLNS CT drawing with the physical devices on
the network.
This chapter describes how to create an OpenLNS CT drawing. Commissioning devices is covered in
Chapter 5, Installing Networks.
Creating an OpenLNS CT Drawing
To create an OpenLNS CT drawing, you add application devices, routers, functional blocks, and other
OpenLNS CT objects to the drawing page. To add an OpenLNS CT object, you drag its OpenLNS CT
SmartShape from a stencil onto the drawing page. If required, the appropriate wizard will then open
and guide you through the process of creating that SmartShape. The following sections describe how
to create the objects in the OpenLNS CT Basic Shapes stencil.
Notes:
• Several of the SmartShapes in the OpenLNS CT Basic Shapes stencil are discussed elsewhere in
this user’s guide. For creating Network Service Device SmartShapes, see Using Network Service
Device SmartShapes in Chapter 3, Getting Started; for creating Data Point SmartShapes, see
Using Data Point SmartShapes in Chapter 6, Monitoring and Controlling Networks; and for using
the Network Merge SmartShape, see
Merging OpenLNS CT Networks in Chapter 7, Maintaining
Networks.