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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

Welcome to our new feedback site!


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.


This page is for feedback specifically for AVEVA PI System. For links to our other feedback portals, please see the tab RESOURCES below.

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Security

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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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

We need a method to send pi message log to syslog server

Provide a configurable export of PI Message log to syslog server.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Hide Certain PI Point Attributes from Users

Implement a way to hide the contents of a PI point attribute, specifically the Instrumenttag attribute. With many PI interfaces, the InstrumentTag attribute will store the IP address of the source, and we (as well as many other utilities) have a r...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

User rights for viewing analytics

In many cases analytics should not be visible to everyone having right to view an AF-Database. Should be possible to direct whom should have view access to analytics. This is an extension to the obivious right to change analytics :)
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 2 No Status

Security tool that allows management of PI Data Archive, Vision, and AF security settings

PI System Administrators would benefit from a client or PI SMT extension that supports auditing and modifying user access. This includes mapping Active Directory roles to PI Identities, managing PI Database and Point access, managing AF Database a...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No Status

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 over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No Status

Rename or add descriptions for Read, Write, Read Data, and Write Data permissions in PI System Explorer

In PI System Explorer, the definitions of the Read, Write, Read Data, and Write Data permissions are not clear from their names. Their names are also misleading. For example, Read permission can be interpreted as "General Read", making Read appear...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 Declined

Allow sorting of Database Security Identities

There should be some type of sorting feature for the Security Identities/Securities listed in the Database Security section of System Management Tools. A simple fix would be to allow us to remove an identity, re-add it and have that appear on the ...
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Declined

Maximum security should be the default for the PI Data Archive and PI System Management Tools

Maximum security by default would help encourage security best practices by: Making the best decision for customers that do not know or care about security "Rewarding" security-conscious customers with not having to expend effort to maximize secur...
Kenneth Barber over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No Status