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Product Customer Portal & PI Square
Categories Knowledge Base
Created by Kenneth Barber
Created on Aug 26, 2022

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Write a KB article that shows the succession of products

OSIsoft has made many products over the years, and many of those products have been deprecated and/or succeeded. The deprecation/succession documentation is currently scattered. Based on personal experience, this is extremely confusing for someone new to the PI System. Some newbies might set up a PI System using older products, only to learn later that they should have never used those products and that they should migrate to a newer product. The more cautious newbies will be confused as to why so many products overlap in function, and each one will need to do their own research to find out which program is recommended. This is absurd.

Please write a KB article showing the succession of products. I suggest a table with 3 columns: Predecessor, Successor, and Initial Release Date Of Successor. The Successor column should only ever have 1 product. All predecessors can be stuffed into the same cell in the Predecessor column, ordered by initial release date. A separate KB article might be needed for PI Interfaces, since there are many that are deprecated. I will share in the comments the succession list that I have compiled over the years.

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  • Kenneth Barber
    Oct 2, 2022

    This list is not guaranteed to be correct. Here it goes:

    • PI Prerequisites Kit → built into install kits

    • PI Server = PI Data Archive → PI Server = PI Data Archive + PI Asset Framework

    • Float16 → Float32 & Float64

    • PI Users & PI Groups → PI Identities

    • PI Trusts → PI Mappings

    • PI Firewall → other firewalls

    • PI Module Database (MDB) → PI Asset Framework (AF)

    • PI Batch Subsystem → PI Batch Database → event frames (PI AF)

    • Zero, span, typical value → limit traits (PI AF)

    • PI AF Collectives → SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups

    • PI AF models, layers, ports, & connections → (none)

    • Sigmafine → (none)

    • PI Advanced Calculation Engine (ACE) → PI Analysis Service

    • PI Performance Equations → PI Analysis Service

    • PI Alarm & PI AlarmView → PI Notifications → notification rules

    • PI Statistical Quality Control (SQC) → notification rules

    • PIPC logs → PI Message Subsystem (PI SDK message logs) → Event Viewer → log files

    • PI API → PI SDK → PI AF SDK

    • About PI-SDK → PI SDK Utility

    • API Buffer Server (BufServ) → PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) → built into PI Connectors, the PI Connector Relay, and AVEVA Adapters

    • Phase 1 UniInt failover → Phase 2 UniInt failover

    • PI Interface Status Utility & watchdog points → UniInt health points

    • PI OPC Tool → PI OPC Client Tool

    • MCN Health Monitor (PI Performance Monitor interface + PI SNMP interface + PI Ping interface + PI TCP Response interface) → PI Connector for PI System Health? → ???

    • PI Interface For HTML → PI Interface For UFL → PI Connector for UFL → AVEVA Adapter For Structured Data Files

    • PI Interface For Flat File Data → PI Interface For UFL → PI Connector for UFL → AVEVA Adapter For Structured Data Files

    • PI Interface For BACnet → PI Connector For BACnet → AVEVA Adapter For BACnet

    • PI Interface For Ping → PI Connector For Ping

    • PI To PI Interface and its APS Connector → PI System Connector 2 (kind of) → PI System Connector 3

    • PI Interface For DNP 3.0 → AVEVA Adapter For DNP 3

    • PI Interface For Modbus → AVEVA Adapter For Modbus TCP

    • PI Interface For RDBMS → AVEVA Adapter For RDBMS

    • PI Connector for OPC UA → AVEVA Adapter For OPC UA

    • PI Interfaces → PI Connectors → PI Adapters (renamed to "AVEVA Adapters")

    • PI AF Builder & PI Tag Configurator & PI Module Database Builder → PI Builder

    • PI OLEDB Provider → PI OLEDB Enterprise → PI SQL Client

    • PI Web Services → PI Web API

    • PI BatchView & PI ProcessBook → PI Coresight & PI Coresight for iOS → PI Vision

    • PI ActiveView → PI WebParts (formerly RtWebParts) → PI Vision

    • PI Manual Logger Mobile → PI Manual Logger Web → PI Vision (future?)

    • Qi → OSIsoft Cloud Services → AVEVA Data Hub → AVEVA CONNECT

    • PI Cloud Connect → AVEVA CONNECT?

    • Any OpenVMS PI program (includes PINet) → (nothing)

    • PI DataSheet Control → ???

    • PI ProcessPoint → ???

    • PI ProfileView → ???

    • PI System Directory → ???

    • RtBaseline Services → PI Data Services

    • vCampus → PI Developers Club

    • PIoneer program → PI Champions → (nothing)

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  • Kenneth Barber
    Aug 26, 2022

    I deleted the contents of this comment because my next comment is a repost of what was in this comment and I didn't notice at the time that I could just edit this comment, but now I can't get rid of this comment because I can't delete my comments.

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