Sending a Who-Is

  • You want to start the discovery process of finding BACnet devices on a network.
  1. From the system tree in the left pane, select a BACnet network.
  1. From the Services menu, click Send Who-Is.
  • The Who-Is dialog box displays.
  1. In the Send Who-Is to Device Range fields, enter the start and end device instance numbers.
  1. In the On Network field, enter the network number. Keep the default values if you want to search for every device on the entire BACnet network. Device instance numbers must be unique for each BACnet device residing on the BACnet network.
  1. Click Send Who-Is.
  • A Who-Is broadcast request is sent over the network specifying an instance number or a range of instance numbers. Any devices that have the specified device objects respond with an I-Am to the request, and the Listening for I-Ams list is populated with responding devices.
  1. From the Listening for I-Ams list, select one or more devices.
  1. Click OK.
  • The devices are added to the system tree.