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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interfaces

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Support dynamic indexes from Linux devices for PI Interface for SNMP

When the interface machine needs to be restarted for any reason, the connection to the source (when a Linux device) is lost because Linux uses dynamic indexes and the Interface does not have a way to manage that. Tags need to be reconfigured every...
Laurie Dieffenbach over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

Create 'Close Event Frame delay' setting

When you create PI Point Data Reference attributes in event frame templates that are used by PI Batch Interfaces, the PI Batch Interface will be responsible for resolving and capturing this PI Point data as soon as it closes the corresponding even...
Rafael Batista 8 months ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 No status

Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera Choconta about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Enhance the PI-ICU to include a rolling buffer regardless of connection to the PI Data Archive

During a Disaster Recovery test our team discovered that there will be up to 24 hours of data loss since our VM's are cloned once a day and the PI-ICU interfaces don't start caching data until the data archive has been disconnected. Essentially - ...
Guest almost 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

PI UFL ._OK file rename should be after parsing to avoid data loss during shutdowns

My understanding of UFL (confirmed by tech support) is that it will rename files to ._OK extension before loading lines into memory. This means that if the service is stopped (such as during an update) and it has not completely read into memory an...
Davin Ross over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

choose PI API Version during installation

At the moment PI API 1.x without Windows Integrated Security is installed as standard. For customers who want to use PI API 2.x with Windows Integrated Security an additional installation is needed. please include both APIs in install-pack and ask...
FranzK about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / Installation 2 Declined

Request for customizing the order of the interface instances in PI ICU interface list.

The interface instances` names contain the plants `names and I want to put the interfaces with the same plant name together in the list.
Guest about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 1 No status

Option for PI Interface for UFL to purge read-only files

Create an option to allow the PI Interface for UFL to delete files with the read-only attribute.
Guest about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

PI UFL Interface to extract data from csv files from multiple sub-folders within the main folder.

In case of csv files in subfolders within Main Path for UFl, PI UFL Interface should be able to search the csv files with placeholder and extract data from csv files from multiple sub-folders within the main folder.
Guest about 3 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status