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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.

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Add a configuration option to the OPC DA Interface so that the user can adjust the maximum advise tag exception delay for Event/Trigger tags

This affect to delay in Event\Trigger points. KCS: Delay in Event Points. When using Event Points, we purposefully do have a delay (if excMax is > 2 s then 2 s else 0.9*excMax) for advise tags (Trigger Point) before they're sent to the PI Serv...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Add a configuration option to UniInt so that the user can adjust the minimum wait time for checking for new events from the Update Manager

This affects the delay in Event\Trigger tags. KCS: Delay in Event Points. The largest and most variable delay seems to come from the time the event is written to the PI Server and the time the interface (UniInt) picks, which is between 0ms-1,000m...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Any Patches/Updates needed to be ready for Microsoft's DCOM hardening in 2023?

By March 2023 Microsoft will enforce a patch that upgrades DCOM security. Some applications that use DCOM (such as the PI OPC interface) will require some updates to continue to work. Are there any updates that I need to apply on any of the PI com...
James_Podobea about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

UniInt Interface to support Kerberos when connecting to network drive for failover file

My ops team tells me that our UniInt-based interfaces (e.g. PItoPI, PerfMon, OPC DA) authenticate to network drives (when reading/writing failover files) using NTLM. I'm told Kerberos is much more secure than NTLM and they would like to see that b...
taterhead247 over 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Easy selection of PI Archives to Backup

Currently, if we want to do a backup of an archive in SMT, we have to tick it. But the customer may has like 500 archives and wants to copy 100 of them. There is currently no friendly-user way to select multiple archives (without unregister them) ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Add ability to honor archive list file locations when adding new server to PI HA Collective

When adding a new server to a PI HA Collective, all archive files selected to be included in the initialization are copied and registered with the new server in one defined location in collective manager.  This can create more manual work for...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

PI SMT - Archive Editor Improvements

Why is the second server of all selected servers the default selected server for the archive editor? (C# index 1 instead of 0?) If I leave the Tagname empty and press the search button the tag search dialog opens fine. But if I enter some text at...
HolgerJoistOmv over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Increase Box Length for Tagname Field in Archive Editor

The Tagname field visible length should be increased within Archive Editor in System Management Tools. The full tag name is limited and cannot tell what is listed because the name is cut off. (See screenshot and steps listed below.) Steps to repr...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Expose connection history information to PI SMT

As PI System administrator, I would like to know the number of clients connection given a time frame. (e.g. * -1 month) Currently, this is only exposed to the pidiag command line utility. It would help me as a pi system admin to see it within a us...
Jinmo Yi over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Replace "timeout parameters" with "tuning parameters" in the description of the PITUNING Database Security table

In PI System Management Tools, under the Database Security plugin, the description of the PITUNING table is: "Controls access to Timeout parameters and the Firewall" "Timeout parameters" is the old name for "tuning parameters", I'm guessing from ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status