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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Security

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Have Platform Common services for PI use least privilege access on the Azure directory

Some Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) administrators will be hesitant to give the registered application for the AIM Server Directory.Read.All privileges. It should be feasible to give the application lesser privileges on the directory while stil...
Housnat Aboubacar 3 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Implement High Availability in AVEVA Identity Manager (AIM)

A few limitations make difficult to architect AIM with PI 2023: No support for NLB No support for failover cluster No support for multiple independent AIM instances As of today, AIM is a single point of failure and so HA is required to preven...
Fabio Venturuzzo 4 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Auditviewer separation of roles

I want to separate the security roles between 1) the ability to run an Auditviewer report and (potentially) associate a change control record to a configuration change and 2) the PI Admin Role in order to minimize security risk.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No status

Move Auditviewer function away from local PI System access

I want to run the Auditviewer function as a unprivileged remote user, moving away from the current requirement to run as a local user on the PI Data Archive Server.  This is so I can minimize security risk associated with local user access on...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Add configurable defaults for PI Point "Pointsecurity" and "Datasecurity"

Read access to the PIPOINT table is required for most identities. Pointsecurity and Datasecurity currently use the settings on the PIPOINT table as the default. New points will generally give read access to most identities because of these default...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Have an option in AF Security to not pass down database security to newly created objects

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Have pre-made PI Identities with minimum permissions by default

It currently takes more effort to follow AVEVA's recommendation of setting minimum permissions for all PI service accounts than it is to use fewer service accounts with more permissions. To help steer PI administrators in the right direction, plea...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No status

Allowing users to edit IP Address for creating a trust with Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager

When creating a trust for the Buffer Subsystem with the Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager, the Wizard auto-populates the IP Address of the machine. Include an option to edit the IP Address that is auto-populated for machines that have mu...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Change process to release security patches

Hello, whenever Osisoft identifies security issues on PI / PI AF, they deliver fixes through the next release of these applications. This is not convenient as upgrading to a new release is a risk that we don't like to be forced to take and has a ...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No status

Be able to configure PI AF security in a single PI System Explorer window

Currently, there are 2 windows to configure PI AF security, and it is a pain to switch between them: File → Database → Edit Security, which is used to assign permissions to identities File → Server Properties → Identities tab and Mappings tab, whi...
Kenneth Barber about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined