LDIB Editor
The LDIB Editor tab in the Central panel of the Configuration Manager contains networking information and some MMS/ICCP information that the Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect (LEC) Server uses to establish MMS/ICCP associations between VMD’s. The information in the LDIB Editor is automatically generated based on the information in the configuration and batch files and can be edited.
Note: Editing information in the LDIB Editor will not write that information to a batch file. So, if a VMD’s networking information is specified in a batch file, any changes to that information made from the LDIB Editor will not persist if the batch file is unloaded and reloaded into the configuration.
There are 13 fields included in the LDIB Editor table for each VMD (local and remote). Each VMD in your configuration may have a value for some or all of the fields listed on the following table:
| LDIB Editor Field | Description |
|---|---|
|
Common Name |
Name for the VMD; only used by LEC |
|
Network Address |
IP address and TCP port of the MMS/ICCP interface (MMS port defaults to102) |
|
TSEL (ASCII) |
2-byte or 4-byte number used to select the correct instance of the transport layer in ASCII format |
|
TSEL |
2-byte or 4-byte number used to select the correct instance of the Transport layer as hexadecimal number |
|
PSEL |
2-byte or 4-byte number used to select the correct instance of thePresentation layer |
|
SSEL |
2-byte or 4-byte number used to select the correct instance of the Session layer |
|
AP Title |
Optional object identifier representing the Application Process Title given to this application |
|
AE Qualifier |
A long integer (32-bit, signed int) is used to qualify the application entity |
|
IS |
Select/Deselect International Standard (Defaults to selected and is mutually exclusive with DIS field) |
|
DIS |
Select/Deselect Draft International Standard (Defaults to unselected and is mutually exclusive with IS field) |
|
Secure ICCP |
Enable/Disable Secure ICCP (Defaults to disabled) |
|
Monitoring |
Enable/Disable monitoring of node value in the Configuration Manager(Defaults to enabled) |
|
UCA |
Enable/Disable Utility Communications Architecture (Defaults to disabled) |
Viewing Network Connection and ICCP Association Configuration Information in the LDIB Editor
If you changed your configuration or loaded a batch file since last viewing the LDIB editor, click Refresh to view the current values. Use the LIDB Editor to check and verify your configuration’s ICCP associations by looking at the TSEL,SSEL, PSEL, AP Title, and AE Qualifier columns.
Changing Network Connection Information
To change the IP address of a VMD or an ICCP Association parameter, it is recommended to change it in the VMD tab of Properties panel in the Configuration Manager or the batch file if one was used to define the VMD and not the LDIB Editor. However, it can be changed in the Network Address column of the LDIB Editor. After making any changes, click Apply. Any changes applied to the LDIB Editor table will override values specified elsewhere in the configuration or batch files. To restore these values if you can, re-specify the VMD parameters in the Properties panel for the given VMD or reload the batch files containing the relevant information.
Writing an LDIB.INI File
If the configuration needs to communicate with an external application using Microsoft’s ActiveX (OCX)controls, the server configuration will need an LDIB.ini file that contains the remote application’s VMD’s association information.
Clicking Write LDIB.ini exports the information shown in the LDIB Editor table as the LDIB.ini file. However, most customer’s LEC server configurations do not require anLDIB.ini file.