As with most “fieldbus” drivers, the status of a ZWaveNetwork is either the normal “ok”, or less typical “down” or “fault” (fault might result from licensing error, or if a non-existent COM port is assigned to Serial Port Config). The Health slot contains historical timestamp properties that record the last network status transitions from ok to any other status. The “Fault Cause” property further explains any fault status.

As in other driver networks, the ZWaveNetwork has an available “Alarm Source Info” container slot you can use to differentiate ZWaveNetwork alarms from other component alarms in the station. See “About network Alarm Source Info” in the Drivers Guide for more details.

The ZWaveNetwork’s monitor routine verifies child ZWaveDevice component(s)—the “pingable” devices in the ZWave driver. The default ping frequency is every 5 minutes, and is adjustable. For general information, see “About Monitor” in the Drivers Guide.

The ZWaveNetwork has the typical network-level Tuning Policy Map slot with a single default Tuning Policy, as described in “About Tuning Policies” in the Drivers Guide. Typically, only a single “Default Policy” exists, however, you can add new tuning policies (duplicate and modify) as needed.

If you have multiple tuning policies, you can assign Z-Wave proxy points as needed to different ones. Under any proxy point’s Proxy Ext properties, in its Tuning Policy Name property, select the desired tuning policy.

If one or more FLiRS (Frequently Listening Routing Slave) devices are found on the network, the driver automatically adds another tuning policy named “flirs”. Proxy points under such a device automatically use that tuning policy. For related details, see Frequently Listening Routing Slave (FLiRS) device considerations.

The ZWaveNetwork has the typical Poll Scheduler slot, as described in “About poll components” in the Drivers Guide. It enables/disables polling, determines fast/normal/slow poll rates, and maintains statistics about proxy extension polls.

By default, a newly created ZWave proxy point uses the “Normal” poll rate. If needed, you can assign proxy points to different poll rates. Under any proxy point’s Proxy Ext properties, select the rate in its Poll Frequency property.

The ZWaveNetwork has several “message handling” network-level properties common among serial drivers, described separately as follows: