Ideas

Currently, PI System Management Tools supports buffering but not data fanning (does not send data to all collective members). When using a PI Collective, customers would like to make changes to PI Point values in Archive Editor in the Primary Dat...

In the event of all the threads being consumed on a PI server a PI admin is unable to manage a PI server remotely. They must remote into the server and manage it from there. However, even from the server there are times where simple tasks like ope...

It would be nice if we could reference an attribute or analysis variable to provide the value for the "True for 'x' minutes" parameter, rather than having to hard-code this value. This would be especially helpful in cases where we have numerous el...

Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...

Currently, the procedure to recover buffer queue files consists of parsing the queue file into a temporary archive and then merging this archive with the registered archive files that overlap with the impacted period. This final merge requires to ...

Posted on behalf of a customer. As of PI Server 2018 SP3, simulator interfaces have been removed from the PI Server setup kit, and the default PI Points are no longer installed. These were very important to check if the server installation went w...

Data Read and Date Write (Buffering) from/to PI Data Archive is based on the priority settings in PI SDK and PSE. We have a architecture of 6 member PI collective and all the source data is not buffered to the individual collective. Hence for othe...

As a PI Administrator in a regulated environment, it would be helpful if the Archive audit trail data exported by the pidiag -xa command included the username associated with each action. Currently, the pidiag -xa exports of archive audit logs do ...

You should be able to urge EFs using more complex search criterias' than the ones provide in the latest PI Server 2018 SP3 (StartTime, EndTIme, EF Template). Most important criteria would be EF categories, but also some honorable mentions: 1. EF ...

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...