This button in the Bacnet Ws Device Manager allows you to control a device’s ability to generate traffic on the network. This could be useful in a diagnostic situation,
where you want to temporarily eliminate all traffic except from a single device. Or you may have a faulty device that is sending
extraneous data, and you wish to “silence it” until you can identify the cause of the problem. When you click this button,
a dialog box appears which allows you to configure the request, as shown in Figure B.6.
Configuration options include the following:
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Enable Disable
You can choose to Enable or Disable the device from sending any BACnet requests. You can also choose to “Disable Initiation,” which allows the device to respond to BACnet requests, while being prevented from initiating any requests of its own. Note that the sending of a single I-Am request is allowed if a Who-Is request that matches the device’s device id is received.
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Duration
You can configure the length of time for which communications will be disabled, after which the communications will automatically be re-enabled for the device.
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Password
Some devices may require a password to disable their communications. If a device requires a password, you may enter it here.
When you click , a request to control the communication is sent to the device. The result is displayed in a dialog box, with either a success message, or a message including the error returned by the device.