AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Tag Name Search Count recorded in PI Tag

Could the feature of counting the number of pi tags (by prefix) and display it in PI Tag or PI Vision. In Microsoft Excel's PI Builder, I would query for pi tags starting with "dist*" and get a count.
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Allow specifying a range of older archive files to backup in piartool

The piartool -backup command has multiple parameters that allow for specifying a number of archives to copy. For example it is possible to specify a number of archives to backup starting at the current time (-numarch), or each archive number can b...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Restore Write access to Module Dabase after uninstalling AF link

MDB to AF synchronisation is not needed anymore and new installation of data archive are free to not install it. Existing installations must maintain this link in order to allow PI-ACE to function properly and add new context. PI-ACE cannot be rep...
alouette_pelr about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

AI Detection for Stale Points

As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Include usernames in pidiag -xa export of PI Archive audit trail

As a PI Administrator in a regulated environment, it would be helpful if the Archive audit trail data exported by the pidiag -xa command included the username associated with each action. Currently, the pidiag -xa exports of archive audit logs do ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make a way to know the statistic of use of every PI TAG in Data Archive

When you have thousands of tags in your Data Archive, you need to know wich tags are beign used and witch don't. It would be very usefull to have some diagnostic that shows wich tags are being cosumed more and from wich client.
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status