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Troubleshooting
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5 Troubleshooting
5.1 Replacing defective devices
If a dLAN device in a dLAN network (local or remote) fails and has to be re-
placed, you can configure a locally available dLAN device as a replacement de-
vice using dLAN AVpro manager by transferring the configuration of the
defective device to the replacement device on a 1:1 basis. If you follow this pro-
cedure, no further configuration steps are needed onsite. The system integrator
needs only to replace the defective device with the prepared replacement device
in the respective dLAN.
The practical procedure for the advance configuration of the replacement device
depends on whether or not the database of the respective dLAN network is
available:
 If the database of the respective network is available, you can transfer the
configuration of the defective device from the database directly to a
locally connected device in dLAN AVpro manager (see Chap. 5.1.1).
 If no database of the respective network is available, you have to configure
a suitable locally connected dLAN device manually, so that it can later be
exchanged for the defective device onsite without the need for additional
configuration measures there (see Chap. 5.1.3).
5.1.1 Replacing the device in the network (with the database of
the network)
If the database of the respective network is available, you can call up this data-
base and replace an existing dLAN device there with a dLAN device that is con-
nected locally to the computer running your dLAN AVpro manager.
a) To do so, right-click on the device to be replaced in the network tree of the
network view. This opens the device's context menu.
b) In the context menu, click on the menu item Replace device. This transfers
the configuration of the defective device from the database to the locally
connected dLAN device. At the same time, in the network view of the remote
network, the MAC address of the defective dLAN device is replaced with the
MAC address of the local dLAN device.