Creating an Initial BACnet/SC Network and Adding Entities Manually

  1. You need to have already created a solution that contains at least one entity of type “Building” and three entities of type “Controller.”
  1. Open your existing solution.
  2. In the “Solutions” menu, click the “Configuration” menu item.
  3. In the tree structure, select the first entity of type “Building” and open the structure below it.
  4. Under the first entity of type “Floor,” create an entity of type “Network.”
    (Optional: The “Network” entity can also be created in other locations in the upper part of the tree structure.)
  5. Click the “CONFIGURATION” tab.
  6. Name this entity “Network UG 9.”

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  7. Click the “BACNET” tab.
  8. Click .
  9. The current view is fixed.
  10. In the tree structure, select the entities of type “Controller” that you want to add to the “Network” entity.
  11. Drag and drop the entities of type “Controller” into the “Network Participants” area.
  12. The controllers have been added to the network.
  13. The controllers are referenced in the tree structure under “Network UG 9.”
  14. The controllers are listed in black font because they were added manually.

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  15. From the “Mode” drop-down menu, select the SC option.
  16. From the “Primary Hub” drop-down menu, select the controller you want to use as the primary hub.
  17. From the “Failover Hub” drop-down menu, select the controller you want to use as the failover hub.
  18. Click [Apply].
  19. All the settings you made are written to the corresponding controllers.
  20. The first network is configured.