Depending on the driver type, a network typically includes other components that define communications settings. Access these components on the property sheet of the network. More details are in the following subsections:
Communication components contain properties and possibly other components that configure and represent communications ports, or other protocol layers. These components will vary from driver to driver. Often, you must configure (or verify) these components to allow online operations.
For example, the NiagaraNetwork contains the NiagaraFoxService, a BacnetNetwork contains a BacnetStack (Bacnet Comm), a LonNetwork contains LonCommConfig (Figure 15).
See the driver document for specific details on configuring a network’s communications components.
Depending on the driver, other specific properties (or even component containers) may be found in the network component’s property sheet.
For example, the NiagaraNetwork has container components Fox Service and History Policies, a ModbusAsyncNetwork contains a number of properties for timeouts and byte-order conventions, and a LonNetwork contains a LonNetmgt component with various child properties (Figure 16).
For more details see Niagara Network, or the corresponding driver document for driver-specific properties and components of a network.