Diagnosing network problems with metrics
bacnetUtil provides tools to monitor the health of the BACnet ports in a station, and diagnose port problems. Three bacnetUtil tools count tokens and messages.
Prerequisites: Your BACnet network has been set up and all devices are configured and communicating.
Some networks do not allow the Wireshark utility to be installed on their control networks. Investigating certain BACnet communication
problems without proper network diagnostic tools can be difficult. The bacnetUtil module is intended to provide diagnostic resources for these networks.
Perform the following steps:
- To prepare the Nav tree, expand .
- To set up an MS/TP port, open the bacnet (
- Drag the MstpPort container to the Network container in the Nav tree.
- To add metrics, open the bacnetUtil palette, expand the Metrics container in the palette, and drag the Tokens, SentMessages and Received Messages components to the MstpPort node in the Nav tree.This starts the system monitoring tokens, sent and received messages.
- To view a chart, right-click the component (Tokens, SentMessages or Received Messages) and click .It may take a few moments for the chart to appear.