Data Archive

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...

Want to be able to allow some users the ability to create and modify tags, but to avoid the issues with deleted tags being hard to recover or accidents, remove their ability to delete tags. Currently, PI Tag Security has only two options: Read/Wri...

PI System Management Tools currently displays comma separators for large numbers. For example: 1,000,000. As a PI admin/user, it would be beneficial if there was an option to remove these commas.

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 ...

Currently the NoReplace event mode will Append data if a value with the same timestamp as the snapshot comes in. Customer would like an event mode that would discard the value if there is existing data with the same timestamp regardless of the val...

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 ...

Hello, About the tuning parameter pointDB_RemoveEmptySource the following Article : https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01008 Indicates : Perform any of the following actions to trigger removal of empty point sou...

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 ...