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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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PI System connector creates additional data on start up

When PI System connector is stopped and started (as a service or in UI), duplicate event is received and archived by the target PI Data Archive. The write mode for the PI Connector Relay is append, in this case history recovery will include/send t...
Guest about 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 Declined

Add the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status"

In the connectors there was the option "Ignore Bad_WaitingForInitialData Status", as described here. For gen 1 there was a need to edit the config files directly, and in gen 2 the option was integrated into the UI. Instead for the adapter I recent...
sahilp almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status

Connector level failover - PI System Connector

Support connector-level failover in PI System Connector. Similar to UniInt failover (interfaces). Failover options should support hot, warm and cold failover.
GaryYegiazaryan over 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 2 No status

Configurable Hostname/IP Identifier for OMF Health Egress

The health tags and AF structure is created with the following naming pattern by default: <machine hostname>.<adapter type> To support modern containerized deployment models, please consider adding a configurable field that allows cust...
Bharat Rawat 6 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 0 No status

Allow PI System connector to actively rectify streams if point type changes are made during runtime

Point changes on the source currently necessitate a restart of PI System Connector to rectify the streams. Allow the tau framework to handle these changes at runtime without restarting the connector. Currently, if the point type changes are made ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Connectors / PI System Connector 0 No status

PI Adapter for Apache Kafka

Create a PI Adapter that supports reading data from Apache Kafka. Please comment with any specific data, requirements, or use cases that this adapter would need to support!
Ellery Murdock about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 0 No status

Provide a streamlined way to rename streams and push the changes to the endpoint

The current process forces the user to modify the adapter configuration (DataSource for the prefix, DataSelection for the stream name) and the endpoint (PIDA, OCS). The adapter should support modifying directly the stream name and push those chang...
Gabriel Verreault about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 Future consideration

Add parameter "Max Monitored Items per Subscription"

The connector for OPC UA includes a parameter “Max Monitored Items per Subscription”, which is very helpful in managing UA servers which may have limits on the maximum items per subscription. This parameter needs to also be available in the adapters.
sahilp over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 3 Future consideration

API to check Adapter buffer statistics

We can check buffer statistics with PI Buffer subsystem (pibufss -cfg, qs) and also with PI Connector/Relay, to verify whether Buffer is healthy, events in queue and etc.Adapter does not has any API to check this.
Ee Sheing Lee over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 No status

Support Kerberos for adapters on Linux

Adapters are supported on Ubuntu, which also provides support for Kerberos (https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/explanation/intro-to/kerberos/) Adding Kerberos support would increase the options for deploying adapters securely.
Mike Horrocks about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 0 No status