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PI Interface for OPC DA

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Parameter for restarting the interface if no connection to the OPC server can be established after a defined period of time

We use the Phoenix Contact Firewall with the OPC Inspector. When the OPC server restarts or breaks the connection for a few seconds, the firewall blocks all ports except port 135. After initial connection through this port, new firewall rules are ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

OPC DA, A&E historical recovery

We have seen that the primary OPC interface will be connected but we don't see data coming across since the OPC server itself seems to have a problem. Since the connection is still active we won't failover to the secondary. We have to leave Notifi...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

OPC DA interface to read data for advise and polled tags at startup

If digital tags are part of advise groups and the flag to write "Intf Shut" is enabled in the OPC DA interface, then digital tags can read "Intf Shut" for hours/days/weeks, if the value does not change after an interface restart (for example, 2 pu...
caffreys_col over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Filter by OPC ItemID

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch like the PI APS Connector for OPC DA interface, but unlike the APS Connector, it is not possible to fil...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Subbranch filter depth

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch however it recurses all sub-subbranches. We have an OPC server with around 20k items that we read into ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Automatic restart of the OPC interface whenever OPC server is restarted

whenever the OPC server undergoes any restarts or configuration changes, the OPC interface will delete all old connections, groups, etc. and it will establish a new connection to the OPC server, loading all ItemID's etc (as if it is an automatic r...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 No status

Preferring a primary interface failover member

hen the primary Interface becomes available and healthy again, it becomes "back up". I need the primary Interface to become the "primary" whenever it is healthy. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/thread/42591-revert-back-to-primary-data-collector
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Support for the VT_UI4 data type

As a PI System User I would like to archive and analyse VT_UI4 data using the PI System.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Clamp Value at Limit

Ability to clamp or ignore values outside a threshold. Example would be to clamp the low value to 'zero' attribute and/or a high value at 'span' - many xmtrs read erratically when at limit (e.g., an empty flow transmitter often reads negative)
Pete Long over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status