Lon Router Manager

This view is one of four views of the LonNetwork and provides support for discovering and adding Lonworks routers to the station database, and for managing router addresses. If no Lonworks routers are installed on the physical network, you can safely ignore this view.

Figure 59. Lon Router Manager view of a LonNetwork

You access this view by right-clicking the Lon network node in the Nav tree followed by clicking Views > Lon Router Manager.

In many ways, this view works like the Lon Device Manager. However, the Lon Router Manager is unique in that it is for management of Lon routers only, meaning that it does not include other (non-router) Lon devices.

Columns

Column	Description
Name	Reports the name of the Lonworks router.
Status	Reports the condition of the entity or process at last polling. `{ok}` indicates that the component is licensed and polling successfully. `{down}` indicates that the last check was unsuccessful, perhaps because of an incorrect property, or possibly loss of network connection. `{disabled}` indicates that the `Enable` property is set to `false`. `{fault}` indicates another problem. Refer to `Fault Cause` for more information.
Type	Identifies the type of device: Dynamic Device, Ip Local Device, etc.
Mode	Reports type of function of the router: `Normal`, `Init Router Table`, `Temporary Bridge` or `Unknown`.
State	Reports the current condition of the router.
Near Chan	Identifies one side (half) of the router. A router typically does not perform at the wire-rate because of latency, including the time to receive and buffer the incoming packet at the near side, the time to forward the packet between the halves, and the time to buffer and transmit the packet at the far side. (from Echelon Lonworks Router User Guide)
Nare Adr	Reports the address of one side of the router.
Far Chan	Identifies the other side of the router.
Far Adr	Reports the address of the other side of the router.
Fault Cause	Indicates the reason why a system object (network, device, component, extension, etc.) is not working (in fault). This property is empty unless a fault exists.
Near Neuron Id	Displays the unique 48–bit ID for the near side of the router.
Far Neuron Id	Displays the unique 48–bit ID for the far side of the router.

Buttons

As in the Lon Device Manager, there is a second row of buttons below ones common to most device managers. These buttons are available when not in learn mode (split panes, Discovered and Database). These buttons are:

New creates new router records.
Edit changes existing router records.
Discover runs a discover job to locate installed devices, which appear in the Discovered pane. This view has a standard appearance that is similar to all Device Manager views.
Cancel ends the current discovery job.
Add inserts into the database a record for the discovered and selected object.
Match associates a discovered device with a record that is already in the database.
Commission sets a selected device’s internal tables (including address-related) to a functioning but unbound state. You perform this on any newly-added Lon device except those created by a Quik Learn of a previously managed network, where the initial state of the device is already Config Online.
Replace Downloads network management data to a selected device it is used when replacing a device, or when re-synchronizing nv bind information.
Quik Learn combines online node discovery and Lon device (database) creation in one operation. Specifically, it searches locally-installed lonvendor modules to find possible Lon Xml files. This differs from a Discover and Add, where the system searches all modules used by the framework.
TempBridge creates a temporary bridge. If the packet is sent on a domain to which a bridge belongs, this type of router forwards packets received on one channel to the other channel. You would use a bridge to span domains. In a single domain network, a bridge functions essentially the same as a repeater. (from Echelon Lonworks Router User Guide
Update Refreshes the view.