The Lonworks Service is applicable if your Workbench PC has a Lonworks adapter. You can view it by selecting Lonworks Service from the Tools menu. It provides the identical “LonNetwork” access as if you had a local (PC) station running (Figure 362).

For example, you can use the Lon Device Manager to discover, add, and upload Lon devices, examine nvs and ncis as LonComponents, and even perform writes and do other configuration (make bindings between devices, commission devices, etc.).

Any configuration you perform is not stored (persisted) in a station database, as this is “station-less” access (modeled completely in RAM). When you close Workbench, all modeling is lost—consider the Lonworks Service like a “hand held device” in this respect. For this reason, do not use this tool to access a Lonworks network already managed by a station, but instead open that station, and access its LonNetwork.

Refer to the NiagaraAX-3.x Lonworks Guide for more details.