Updated: April 16, 2013

Minor updates to note/caution that if you install a “clean dist” file in a JACE-603 or JACE-645, that you cannot directly commission if for Niagara R2. Instead, you must first install NiagaraAX build 3.6.44 or later, using the Commissioning Wizard in Niagara Workbench. Following the subsequent reboot of the JACE, you can then recommission it for Niagara R2. This was “footnoted” in the section Overview, mentioned in a Note in the section Platform Administration view, and also added to a Caution in the section Distribution File Installer.

The “as-shipped” description for an RB-603 or RB-645 retrofit board in the Overview section was modified to remove mention of any installed AX license—only the Niagara R2 license is installed in the unit. Related to this, it was recommended that you backup that installed Niagara R2 license to your Workbench PC, even before doing any other commissioning. Now, this is also mentioned in the section Open a platform connection, with the related procedure located in the section Copy the installed R2 license file.

Initial Document: March 1, 2012

Document to support Niagara R2 commissioning of RB-603 and RB-645 “retrofit boards” installed in existing R2 JACE-403 and JACE-545 controllers (effectively then JACE-603 or JACE-645 controllers). Alternatively, these controllers can have NiagaraAX installed instead—in which case please refer to the JACE NiagaraAX Install & Startup Guide instead of this document.