Ideas

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.

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...

PI Points of point class "base" don't use the Classic tab in the Point Builder of PI System Management Tools at all. Therefore, there is no need to show it for "base" PI Points.

I would like PI SMT to refresh its cache automatically so it provides consistent information with other client tools without the requirement to manually refresh it or close/reopen.

Text tuning parameters logically cannot have a minimum or maximum, so please show a blank instead of 0 for the min and max of text tuning parameters.

PI Services would benefit from a tabular format so then the (Running)/(Stopped) can be moved into a separate column. This would improve readability and allow the user can sort by service name or (Running)/(Stopped). Also, the inclusion of the full...