Commissioning a router sets a router’s internal tables to a functioning state. You perform this on any newly-added router
except those created by a Quik Learn of a previously managed network, where the initial state of the router is already Config Online.
Prerequisites: The router is connected to the network and ready to communicate.
- To examine the router’s internal tables, expand , right-click the Lon network and click .
The Lon Utilities Manager view opens.
- Select the router from the
Device drop-down list.The internal tables appear in the Results pane.
- To commission the router, click the drop-down menu at the top right of the view and click
Lon Router Manager.The Lon Router Manager view opens.
- Select the router in the table and click the Commission button.
A commission command performs the following steps:
- If using a service pin, the process waits for a service pin message to obtain the router’s
Neuron Id, otherwise, it uses the Neuron Id already stored in the station database.
- The commission job initializes the router’s domain table, both far and near side, as follows:
- It sets Domain Index zero to the Lon network’s working domain.
- If the device has two domains, it sets Domain Index one to either not in use if the working domain is the zero-length domain, or to zero-length domain if the working domain is not the zero-length domain.
- Finally, the job configures the Netmgmt Authentication Key and the device’s subnet/node address in all active domains.
- Next, the job updates configuration device data as follows:
Channel Id: per the property as defined under LonNetmgmt.Node Priority: per the Lon device property.Location: per Lon the device property.Authenticate: per the property under LonNetmgmt.
- The job sets the router table per the current network configuration.
- Finally, it sets the router state to
Configured, online.