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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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Ability to manage non-impersonated linked tables without PI AF Server Admin privilegies

PI AF Admin would like grant permissions for users that are not level server admins to create and edit non-impersonated linked tables. Currently this only allowed for AF server admins or using impersonated linked tables. User guide: https://liv...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 3 No status

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 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

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

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

Provide a configurable export of PI Message log to syslog server.
Guest about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 1 No status