GE DEH-211 manual Adding Software Nodes, EPM Device- Special Considerations

Adding Software Nodes

Software nodes identify the various software components in the network. Stationless Secondary nodes, although they are physically separate computers, do not run a Communications Server and are therefore not considered Workstations by Network Builder. Instead, Stationless Secondary nodes appear in the network diagram as software nodes under the Primary Workstation. Full Station Secondary nodes appear as Workstations because they do run an instance of the Communications Server.

Acknowledging the Add Workstation dialog brings up a message box asking if you want to set up the default software nodes – choose Yes to display the software nodes dialog (shown below). Select only ION Designer and Pegasys ION_Link DDE Server as shown, then click OK to proceed. The other options are not supported in PMCS 6.9.

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