At the bottom of the ZWave Device Manager are buttons, which apart from the button are:
Discover, ScanForDevices, ReplicateReceive, TransferPrimary, OptimizeNetwork
These provide network management functions, described as follows:
The Discover button launches a discovery job, which does the following sequence:
Reads the node list from the Z-Wave interface (Z-Wave option card/ Z-Wave serial gateway).
For each slave node, add a Z-Wave device to the station, if it doesn’t already exist.
For each device added to the station, request the “Node Information” data from the device.
Node Information includes a list of command classes that the device supports.
For each command class that the device supports and that the driver also supports:
Create one or more components and/or control points (proxy points) to model the data for the command class.
If the components or proxy points already exist, it just updates the data within the component.
Sends a request to read the data contained within the command class.
For each device that supports Association:
Reads the association information.
Once discovery is complete, the Z-Wave network should be complete with devices and proxy points to monitor and control the slave Z-Wave devices
performs the same sequence as a Discover, except it does not read associations.
The button is to initiate a replication process. Replication is a Z-Wave process of copying the network topology information from the Z-Wave primary controller (that was used to install the Z-Wave network of devices) to the JACE’s Z-Wave interface (JACE Z-Wave option card or external Z-Wave serial gateway).
The replication process is initiated clicking the ReplicateReceive button just after pressing the button sequence on the primary controller to send the replication messages.
This launches a “Replication Job” that initiates a sequence of RF messages to transfer the node table into the JACE’s Z-Wave interface from the primary controller.
Once replication is complete, it automatically launches a discovery job (see Discoverfor details).
Some primary controllers have the ability to transfer “primary controller responsibility” during replication. In this case, the JACE’s Z-Wave interface (JACE Z-Wave option card or external Z-Wave serial gateway) becomes the primary controller for the network. The user may do this if portable primary controller used to install the network is not left at the site (it may be used to install other sites).
The button becomes active if the JACE’s Z-Wave interface has been given the role of primary controller. Clicking this button initiates a replication process to transfer the network topology information and primary controller role back to a portable controller that can be used to add or remove Z-Wave devices to the network.
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