ZFR1800 Series Wireless Field Bus System Technical Bulletin 49
Optimizing/Reforming a Network
You can reform or optimize a network using the ZFR1810 Coordinator’s Network
Optimize/Reform Button or the Metasys Site Management Portal.
Optimizing the Network
When you optimize the network, the ZFR1810 Coordinator:
• clears its internal (persisted) routing tables
• clears its statistics
• initiates a relearn sequence to all ZFR1811 Routers
During this relearn sequence, the ZFR1811 Routers also clear their routing tables
and attempt to find better signal paths to the ZFR1810 Coordinator.
For more details, see Optimizing the Network and Optimizing/Reforming a
Network from the Metasys Site Management Portal.
Reforming the Network
You can also initiate a network reform function, which affects the ZFR1810
Coordinator and all of the ZFR1811 Routers operating on the PAN.
IMPORTANT: When you initiate the network reform function, the wireless
network reforms, and field controllers may go offline for approximately
15 minutes. If a ZFR1811 Router does not come back online after a network
reform, set all PAN OFFSET switches on the ZFR1811 Router to ON, cycle
power, then set the switches back to their original settings. For details on the
manual reset, see Troubleshooting.