Services 2.0

2 Introduction
Introduction
Echelon Enterprise Services 2.0 includes the new i.LON AdminServer and the LNS Proxy Web
service.
The i.LON AdminServer is a new Web application that you can use to manage and deploy
SmartServers. You can use the i.LON AdminServer to perform batch operations on your
SmartServers. For example, you can backup or upgrade multiple SmartServers at the same time, or
you can create a template of one SmartServer and deploy that template on multiple SmartServers
simultaneously. In addition, when you deploy a template, you can have the SmartServer automatically
or semi-automatically install the devices in the SmartServer or LNS network database included in the
template. This automatic network installation feature is supported for single-channel networks
containing up to approximately 20 devices.
The LNS Proxy is a Web service enables the SmartServer to directly communicate with LNS Server
computers running LNS Turbo Server (version 3.25). This means that you can use the SmartServer as
a powerful standalone LNS network management tool to design, install, monitor/control, and maintain
L
ONWORKS networks, or you can integrate the SmartServer with the LonMaker tool or other LNS
network tools and use the SmartServer to monitor and control the network.
What’s New in EES 2.0
In addition to the new i.LON AdminServer, EES 2.0 features the following new features for managing
your SmartServers and L
ONWORKS networks:
• Rapid Deployment. Automatically install single-channel LNS managed or standalone networks
containing up to approximately 20 devices.
• Fast Data Log Transfer. Automatically download data logger data to your computer.
• LNS Device Templates. Create device templates in the LNS tree.
• Improved LNS Proxy Synchronization. Clear the cache of the LNS Proxy Web service if the LNS
objects in your network tools lose synchronization with the LNS Proxy Web service.
Rapid Deployment
You can use i.LON SmartServer 2.0 to automatically install single-channel LNS managed or
standalone networks containing up to approximately 20 devices. i.LON SmartServer 2.0 features a
new device discovery method for acquiring the Neuron IDs of the devices on the network. With the
device discovery method, the SmartServer searches the physical network for uncommissioned devices
and matches them based on program ID to pre-configured devices stored in a SmartServer or LNS
network database. The SmartServer then automatically installs the discovered devices.
Automatic network installation eliminates the cumbersome manual tasks associated with network
installation such as matching up device configurations in a network tool with the physical devices on
the network, and pressing service pins on the devices to commission them.
See
Using Rapid Deployment in Chapter 2 for more information.
Fast Data Log Transfer
You can use i.LON SmartServer 2.0 to automatically transfer binary or CSV format alarm and data
logs to a computer running the LNS Proxy Web service included in EES 2.0 and automatically extract
selected data to a .csv or XML file. To use the fast data log transfer feature, you create a Web
connection between the SmartServer and LNS Proxy Web service (in LNS mode) or between the
SmartServer and a WebBinder target that is set to the IP address of the LNS Proxy Web service (in
Standalone mode), and add then attach the desired data log file to the Web connection.