Concurrent with this document update in the AX-3.6 maintenance release timeframe, the “BACnet Supervisor” based on the bacnetws module is being superseded in favor of two new Supervisor products, each of which are BTL (BACnet Testing Laboratories) listed. An offline utility allows migration of a BACnet Supervisor database to one compatible as a BACnet AWS Supervisor or BACnet OWS Supervisor. See BACnet AWS and OWS Supervisors for further details. This appendix describes the BACnet Supervisor, which is not BTL listed. Sale of this product stops with the release of the BACnet AWS and BACnet OWS Supervisors. The bacnetws module will continue to be available through the 3.7 release of NiagaraAX, with the following caveats:

For these reasons, it is strongly recommended to migrate away from bacnetws-based products, either in usage or in development, at the earliest opportunity.In a few cases where a BACnet Supervisor was implemented using BACnet server functions (exporting BACnet objects), a license exception may allow migration to a BACnet AWS Supervisor with this same ability. However (at the time of this document), this would invalidate its BTL listing. Although BTL testing and listing of server operation may be added at some future time, the currently completed testing and listing applies only to BACnet client operation.

This appendix describes the features and functionality specific to a BACnet Supervisor, and has the following main sections: