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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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System Management

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Prevent piarchss from logging messages about overflow record insertion

When backfilling historical data, piarchss logs messages like this one: Inserting overflow record 4035947. Point: 41455, archive start: 4-Jan-17 20:34:10, first event time: 25-Jan-17 09:49:00, record event count: 100, overflow count: 98 When a la...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Performance Counter for Critical, Error, and Warning messages.

In addition to a performance counter for total messages sent into the PI log, it would be very useful to have performance counter to determine which of these messages are Critical, Error, or Warning messages. This way, users can monitor specifical...
Alan Izar over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

export version, configuration and health information for reporting

would like to build report based on the available information. Ex: version installed, configuration of the PI software and their health status.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 Declined

Suppress [-15011] PIvalue Type is Not Numeric

An option to suppress "[-15011] PIvalue Type is Not Numeric" when there is a non-numeric OOO event (e.g. string or digital value) between the pibufss last compressed event and snapshot event. While these messages are only informational they can qu...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Make message logs easier to export in bulk

Tech support often asks customers for message logs in bulk. The PISDKUtility and SMT are not good for this because they run out of memory if you try to load too many messages. The only way to export the logs is to use the command line pigetmsg uti...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 Declined

Delete precommit folder after backup whether backup is successful or not

No description provided
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Allow PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) to be managed by Powershell tools for the PI System

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

several Instances for PI Relay

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Data Collection Manager User management

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Add a "save changes" warning to the SMT Point Builder

In the Point Builder, if the user makes a change to one tag and they click on a different tag, ask them if they want to save/discard changes.
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 2 Declined