This section describes the “server side” operation of the NiagaraAX Bacnet driver. If the host platform is licensed as a BACnet server, you can “export” any number of selected types of objects in the station (regardless of location) to appear as BACnet objects. As such, these objects can service client requests from any networked BACnet devices. Exporting of Niagara schedules and calendars is included. Histories can be exported also, where they appear externally as BACnet Trend Log objects.

For related licensing details, see Bacnet server (export) ability. Note that at the time of this document, the AX-3.6 and later BACnet AWS Supervisor (BacnetAwsNetwork) and BACnet OWS Supervisor (BacnetOwsNetwork) are not typically licensed for “server side” (export) operation. Therefore, the remainder of this section has little practical application for those two network types, unless some special license exception has been made.

Server operation of the Bacnet driver is concurrent with client configuration and operation—often, you may choose to do both. In special cases in a station running in a JACE, you may configure it for BACnet server operation only.

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