System Management

I have three large customers who have experienced PI Data Archive performance issues when large numbers of tags are being created. Specifically, record locks seem to take an extra large time (e.g., more than 15 minutes) to clear, and data updates ...

Currently users have to use the command line tools to clear buffer point errors. It would be useful and enhance O&M if these errors could be cleared directly from the UI rather than just viewed.Bonus points for allowing users to clear all, mul...

There are other similar ideas out there on this site but I would like to see the ability to skip numbers in the Digital States Enumeration. We have areas of the plant that have states which don't map well to a 1,2,3.... set of states. Some are bit...

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...

The description for the MarkArchiveGaps tuning parameter for a value of 2 is unclear. A user might interpret: 2 - Gap markers only when there is an actual gap between two consecutive archives. to mean that markers are shown when a tag does not h...

Provide a way to have an online, dynamic inventory of installed PI System components, especially interfaces.

PI System Management Tools is more of a client-side program, so it does not make sense for it to be packaged with a server-side program like the PI Interface Configuration Utility. This increases the size of the install kit, increases the extracti...