System Management

We have hundreds of digital state sets, many of them the same with the exception of their name (e.g., Manual_Auto, ManualAuto, Manual-Auto, Manuel-Auto, ManuelAutomatique; all with states 0: Manual and 1: Auto). In order to clean up these states, ...

In point builder, the number of tags you are working on is displayed in the top right corner. I'd like to suggest the same on the stale tags window. Why? I do systems administration on 380 controls machines across 68 power plants. Of those 380 mac...

Development native PI application for define best configuration for tags exception and compression with resource for turn off compression and define statistical setup for each tag behavior. Graphics resources and treatment using group of tags like...

Have a way to automatically have services restart, potentially tied to a health trigger value in a tag.

Have a way to detect if data is missing.

In the description of the tuning parameter Archive_AutoArchiveFileSize, "occurs" is misspelled as "occurrs". This misspelling is also followed by a semicolon instead of a period.

Go to PI System Management Tools. In the View menu, we see "Plug-Ins". If we click on Settings in the View menu, we see "plugins".

In PI System Management Tools → Operation → Tuning Parameters, add a "Unit" column and a "Takes Effect" column. Not only does this prevent having to click on the tuning parameter to know its unit, but it also shortens the tuning parameter's descr...

Currently, every PI System Management Tools plug-in has buttons at the top. To know what a button does, you must hover over it and read the tooltip. If the PI SMT is maximized, the buttons usually use up very little of the horizontal space availab...

In the PI Annotations Editor, which is accessible by clicking on "Annotations" after right-clicking on a value in the Archive Editor, if you make changes to the annotations and try to close the PI Annotations Editor without saving, the following m...