Patent ID: 8122434

Claim:
Apparatus for configuring a control system, comprising A. a model comprising one or more objects representing one or more devices of a control system, each object having one or more parameters reflecting characteristics of the devices represented by the respective objects, B at least one of said parameters of at least one of said objects being associated with a track attribute indicating whether at least selected configuration information transferred from that object to the a respective device in the control system is to be logged to a change tracking system to which the apparatus is coupled, C. a download service that is in communications coupling with the model, the control system and the change tracking system, the download service transferring to one or more of the devices at least selected configuration information from one or more parameters of one or more respective objects of the model, D. the download service that generates for logging by the change tracking system indicia of at least selected configuration information transferred to the one or more of the devices, where such selection is based on a value of the track attribute associated with the parameter from which such information is transferred.