About bacnet palette components

In Workbench, open the bacnet palette to see the various Bacnet components (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Components in bacnet palette (AX-3.8 shown)

Even without showing the many other components under the Config and Server folders, this demonstrates that Bacnet is one of the more comprehensive NiagaraAX field bus drivers. However (like most NiagaraAX drivers), you seldom need to work from the palette. Instead, the various Bacnet manager views simplify component creation, enforcing proper component hierarchy.

The few scenarios where you may need to work from the bacnet palette including the following:

When adding another network port, found under folder NetworkPorts.
When adding a specialized history extension (BacnetLogExtension) to any point in the station, in order to make its Niagara history exportable as a BACnet-compliant Trend Log object. See BacnetTrendLogExt for more details.
When adding a BacnetDestination to the station’s AlarmService, found under folder Alarming.
When adding a “WorkerPool” under a “Worker” slot (AX-3.8 only). See Bacnet Workers for related details.