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238 Maintaining

Networks

3. Choose the synchronization operation(s) you want to perform by selecting the following options.

LNS Database

The network database resynchronization options are only available if
the LonMaker tool is running on the same computer as the LNS
Server.

Validate LNS
Database

Validates the structure of the LNS network database.

Validate and Repair
LNS Database

Validates the structure of the LNS network database and repairs the
database if any errors are detected.

LonWorks Network

Synchronize Network
to Database
(recommission
devices)

Commissions the physical devices in the LonWorks network to
make them consistent with the LNS network database. To use this
option, the LonMaker tool must be OnNet.

Update Location
Path and ID in
Devices

Stores the current subsystem path in the SCPTlocation
configuration property of application devices that have a
SCPTlocation configuration property, and stores the current
subsystem ID in the Location field of application devices and
routers. This option is only available if at least one of the check
boxes in the network properties: Recovery options category is
selected.

If an application device and its functional blocks span multiple
subsystems, the LonMaker tool updates the SCPTlocation
configuration property with the subsystem path in which the device
shape is located.

The subsystem ID is the first 15 bits of the LNS subsystem handle
(in a very large network with many subsystems where more than