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Product AVEVA™ Adapters
Categories AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA
Created by Nick Ciampa
Created on Jan 28, 2026

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Automated discovery on a schedule

Enable Regular Discovery: While not continuous by default, discovery can be scripted or scheduled to run periodically for dynamic environments

include this as a feature, so that automatic discovery and automatic addition of new discoveries can be performed without manual action or scripting the process

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  • Kenneth Barber
    Aug 18, 2026

    This, or something better than this, is needed for AVEVA Adapters in general. The solution that I would rather have is something similar to what PI Connectors do so that the data source does not need to be queried/processed separately for data discovery and for gathering data to archive.

    PI Connectors will create a new tag if the tag to which it was trying to send data does not already exist (e.g. data for a new piece of equipment).

    AVEVA Adapters will create a new tag if the data in the data selection does not correspond to an existing tag. However, data selection cannot be configured to automatically update to include new streams of data from the data source. The closest that it gets is to enable auto-select for a data discovery, but a data discovery still must be run manually and can be run only once. As you mentioned, the workaround is to use a scheduled script to run discoveries automatically and periodically.

    I would rather have a way to tie together data discovery and the querying of data to archive for an experience more similar to PI Connectors. That is, query the data source just once, and with the results of that query, the AVEVA Adapter can discover new data, auto-select it, and save the data that it just retrieved to the stream that it just created. I'm not saying that AVEVA Adapters should be changed to work only like PI Connectors, but it should be available as an option.

    After writing this, I realized that this should probably be its own suggestion, so here it is:

    https://pisystem.feedback.aveva.com/ideas/PIADAPTERS-I-207

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