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Status Completed
Product AVEVA™ PI Vision™
Categories Installation & Upgrading
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2022

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Allow installer to (optionally) bypass Certificate checks

In nearly all installations in the last three years we have restrictions on the servers where we need to install the SSL certificates, that make it impossible to verify the validity (e.g. no access to revocation servers). The certificate is accepted by clients as those have different authorisations. I would like to optionally bypass the certificate checks in the PI Web API Configuration utility to allow using certificates that cannot be validated. This will save a lot of time to bypass the utility and manually remove and bind a certificate.
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Aug 19, 2022
    This enhancement request was included in PI Vision 2020. On a clean install, the setup kit will create a self-signed certificate, and apply it to the target IIS web site where PI Vision is being installed. On upgrade, where the previous version already had a certificate set for the PI Vision site, that certificate is used for the new version's PI Vision web site. For additional information on PI Vision 2020, please see the release announcement here: https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000031641
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  • Guest
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    |     Aug 19, 2022
    Hi Roger - is your feedback specific to the PI Vision install or for all PI Web API installs? In PI Vision 2020, we are planning to remove the dependency on PI Web API and will no longer prompt for a certificate selection in the installer, so I can plan to mark this item as done with the new release. If you would like to keep this feedback for PI Web API, then we can move it to the Dev Tech forum.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 19, 2022
    PS: This applies both to PI Vision and PI Web API installers if both use the same rules to check the certificate.
  • Kenneth Barber
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    |     Aug 19, 2022
    Interesting. Making sure that a certificate is valid is a security measure, but forbidding the PI Vision server to communicate with the outside world is also a security measure, and, arguably, the more important one.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 19, 2022
    Still fails with no internet access when replacing a valid non self signed cert with a new one even though it's in PFX format and therefore should need no external access. This on standalone Web API configuration tool at latest revision. PI server doesn't have internet access, on purpose, PFX format being used as it should be accepted without internet access...