Nrio Device Manager

The default view on a M2mIoNetwork or NrioNetwork, the Nrio Device Manager provides a table based view of “device level” NrioModule components. If an M2mIoNetwork copied from the nrio palette, the only needed NrioModule is already configured, ready to access the onboard I/O of an “M2M JACE”.

Figure 5. M2mIoNetwork in Nrio Device Manager

As shown in Figure 5, the default name for the child Nrio16Module is “LocalIo16,” and you can further edit by double-clicking and entering a Description value. This component “auto discovers” the onboard JACE IO module, and you can double-click the Exts icon to go to its Nrio Point Manager view.

For an NrioNetwork, used to support remote I/O modules (devices available at some later date), the Nrio Device Manager also provides a “Learn Mode” to find such RS-485 connected devices (Figure 6). In this case, this view allows you to discover and add one or more “device-level” NrioModule components to the station database (Figure 7).

Figure 6. Adding NrioModule discovered using Nrio Device Manager

Figure 7. Add dialog for NrioModule(s)

For general information, refer to “About the Device Manager” in the Drivers Guide.

After adding all discovered NrioModule(s), you use the Nrio Point Manager view of each NrioModule to add Nrio proxy points—one for each available I/O hardware point (terminal address).

See the following sections for more details on the Nrio Board Manager view: