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PI Connector for OPC UA

Ability to monitor which OPC UA Connector is active in a failover pair

As a PI administrator, I need to monitor which OPC UA Connector in a failover pair is currently active. When the primary OPC UA Connector goes down, I need an email notification, and vice versa when the secondary OPC UA Connector goes down.
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 No status

Allow PI Connector for OPC UA to browse OPC UA Servers using Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing

Background: Some OPC UA Servers have the concept of Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing.The UA Nodes do not exist in the OPC UA Address Space.Nodeids are created\added to the Address Space only when a Client makes a request for the N...
Dan Lapsley 6 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

OPC UA server failover based on watchdog tag

Gen2 PI Connector for OPC UA support OPC UA server level failover. How the Connector determine when to failover to the other OPC UA server: As per 6.6.2.4.2 ServiceLevel , this is used by the client to determine whether to connect/disconnect fro...
Ee Sheing Lee 9 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 1 No status

OPC UA - Add Option to not browse item before creating a monitored item

Need an option in Tag only Mode to force connector to create a monitored item without browsing item. Some OPC servers require creating a monitored item BEFORE the item can be browsed.
JTWhite about 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Eliminate need for Tag Filter File in PI Connector for OPC UA Gen 2

For the user who just wants to pull all available tags from the OPC UA server, I should not have to enter a tag filter file when running a PI connector in tags only mode.
George Hauck 6 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Warm and cold PI Connector for OPC UA failover

Currently only hot failover is featured for the PI Connector for OPC UA but this creates a lot of strain on the data sources. We need to be able to select warm/cold failover mechanism.
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Enable/Disable Compression on Tags

First, compression should be on by default for tags, like it is for tags created via other means. Second, if folks do want it off, it should be a setting to enable globally right from the Connector.
Kelsey Bobeck 3 months ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Write back to source system

OPC UA PI connector to have a feature to write back data to the source system. Example Watchdog data
Navanita almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

OPC UA 2.x - Health information and connector statistics

In the PI Connector for OPC UA 1.3.x, some very useful statistics are available - Events in DA queue, Data rate, Variables Numbe - but 2.0.x these items are not available anymore. Those items should be available for data selection to be monitored ...
Gabriel Verreault almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 0 No status

Switch for using Name of AF Attributes from Browsable Name or Display Name

Add a Switch to the OPC UA Connector that we can choose if we want the AF Attributes to be created using "Browsable Name" or "Display Name". Using the Display Name would make it much easier for us to locate the Attribute and refer to its OPC Tag a...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for OPC UA 2 No status