To setup Lon over IP with a third-party Config Server

With the station opened in Workbench:

1. Open the lonIp palette in the palette side bar.

   Drag or copy a “LonIpNetwork” into the station’s Drivers container.

2. Double-click the LonIpNetwork for its Lon Device Manager view.

   Then double-click its Local Lon Device to edit its Channel Id, Subnet, and Node address to be consistent with the LonIp channel the station will join as a member. Save when done.

   Channel Id and subnet must match other devices on the channel, and the node address must be unique for that subnet.

3. Open the property sheet of the network’s Ip Channel, Network Config component.

   To do this from the Nav tree, expand the LonIpNetwork, then its ipChannel, then double-click Network Config.

   Enter the IP address of the Config Server in the Config Server Ip property field, and then Save when done.

   If behind a NAT (Network Address Translation) router, other Network Config properties need editing. See Setup notes if a NAT router firewall .

4. At the Config Server, add a member to the IP channel for the JACE station. Refer to the vendor’s documentation for the Config Server for this step.

   Once contact is made with the Config Server, and the station becomes a member of the channel, the Member Table under the network’s ipChannel will become dynamically populated.

   From this point forward, other Lonworks functions will perform as if directly connected to a Lon trunk, that is, as if using the standard LonNetwork.

   To see channel members in the table, double-click the network’s ipChannel for its Member Manager view. Unlike in the other LonIp setup method (where Niagara operates as the Config Server), you do not need to edit or add any members in this view.