Owner manual
Introduction 
The MPR-50’s Monitor observes and reports on the health of Routers 1–5 through 
Status LEDs and through the network.  The Monitor can be commissioned by a 
network management tool and operates independently from the MPR-50’s five 
routers. 
The Monitor is a L
ONMARK certified application organized as six functional blocks. 
In addition to the Node Object, it contains one Channel Monitor functional block 
each for Routers 1–5. 
For the sake of efficiency, bit arrays, network variable arrays, and configuration 
property arrays are used. It is important to understand that the L
ONMARK resource 
file and LonMaker tool indices start at zero while, for ease-of-use, the Routers are 
numbered one through five on the enclosure, as well as on the LonMaker shapes. The 
following table shows the indices to these arrays: 
Array 
Index 
Enclosure Markings  Visible Router and Channels Names in the 
LonMaker Stencil 
0  Router 1 – TP/XF-1250  Router 1 (1250) and Channel 1 (1250) 
1  Router 2 – TP/FT-10  Router 2 (FT) and Channel 2 (FT) 
2  Router 3 – TP/FT-10  Router 3 (FT) and Channel 3 (FT) 
3  Router 4 – TP/FT-10  Router 4 (FT) and Channel 4 (FT) 
4  Router 5 – TP/FT-10  Router 5 (FT) and Channel 5 (FT) 
Self-Installation 
The Monitor self-installs and does not need to be installed by a network management 
tool in order to provide status via the front panel LEDs. To obtain status from the 
Monitor remotely, it should be installed by a network management tool. The 
Monitor intelligently manages its own installation state so that the user does not 
need to manage it. 
Service Button 
Momentarily pressing any of the Service buttons causes the associated Monitor or 
router to transmit a service pin message (a router transmits two service pin 
messages—one onto the MPR-50’s internal channel and one onto its external 
channel). Since the Monitor is attached to the internal channel, a service pin 
message from the Monitor will be routed onto a particular external channel only if 
the associated router that connects the internal channel to the external channel is 
configured to route messages. 
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