Commission as replacement

This dialog opens when you run the Commission as replacement command on a selected switch. The dialog contains the following fields and controls.

Field Description
Commission Switch MAC Address

The MAC address of the selected switch to commission.

Displayed across the top of the dialog.

Switch Name Name of the switch module to be assigned to the decommissioned switch. The drop down list shows only modules of previously commissioned switches that are not currently communicating.
Switch Location The configured location (or description) of the selected switch. This field is read-only.
Commission button Accepts the entries in the dialog, writes information to the switch, and creates and downloads the switch module.
Cancel button Closes the dialog without accepting any entries.

If this dialog is invoked by dragging and dropping a decommissioned switch to a commissioned switch, the Switch (Module) Name and the Switch (Module) Location contain the information for the commissioned switch