I am running several cooling units in my datacenter both of which have a modbus interface card installed. I've successfully used the i.Lon SmartServer to interface with the RS-485 network for both control and monitoring through the internal SmartServer webpages. However, we now need to expand the system to retrieve these modbus points in a central energy management server. The problem I am encountering is that when I access the SmartServer through Circon's Network Integrator, none of the modbus points appear. Is there a way to configure the SmartServer to act more as a gateway to pass the modbus points onto a server via RNI or am I trying to use the SmartServer for something it was never intended to do? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 Hi

I don't know how Circon's Network Integrator works, but from what you write it looks like it reads LON data points via RNI. In order to get the MOD data points that way you have to mirror them to LON data points. Create dynamic LON data points (e.g. under an iLON App webserver block) with the correct types. Then create web bindings from the MOD data points to the LON data points. Those can now be read via RNI. In order to be able to write the MOD data points you have to create (other) mirrors where the web binding runs the other direction.

Other ways of getting the MOD NVs out of the SmartServer are

• Use an enterprise application that  directly reads/writes the data points using SOAP (the read is a pull)
  
• Configure a web binding from the MOD data points to the enterprise application.That will push the data via SOAP to the enterprise application.

Obviously you'd have to have a dedicated enterprise application that speaks/understands SmartServer SOAP in order for the above to work.

      Regards

     Thorsten