AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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Modernize PI system logging

PI system logging is currently fragmented across multiple location. This makes troubleshooting and log correlation difficult. Solution: Make logging consistent across all PI system applications. (ex: all logs stored in windows event log; all logs ...
GaryYegiazaryan about 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 1 No status

multiple instances of analysis service

As a PI administrator I would like to be able to create multiple instances of "PI Analysis Service" windows service for these reasons: - avoid new potentially problematic analysis from affecting the ones that are operational and working correctly ...
Phillip Riesinger about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 6 No status

Remove installation kits' dependency on write permission to root C:\.

Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 4 No status

PI Auditviewer Usability Enhancements

From a pharma/biotech user perspective, I am finding that the PI Auditviewer application is difficult to use and conduct an investigation with over an extended time period.  I believe the application needs an overhaul to allow for, at minimum...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Allow exclusion of message types when searching PI Message logs

As a PI System administator of a busy PI Data Archive, I find that my message logs are unwieldy. I can miss important messages in the flood of connection messages and other repetitive messages. I would like to be able to search my message logs whi...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Improve PI Data Security

The assignment of a PI tag on which the currently logged in user has no authorization as PI point reference to an AF attribute must not (as currently) be possible. It is possible to bypass the PI Archive authorization mechanism (point and data sec...
GünterSendlinger about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

AF should react better to unhandled exceptions from a linked table provider

When an OLE DB or ODBC provider returns an unhandled exception for a linked table to the PI AF Application Service , it would be better for it either handle the exception and not crash, or to log the exception, the linked table name and provider n...
Guest about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 2 No status

AF Templates should show creation and modification dates and creators and changers

AF Templates should show creation and modification dates and creators and changers. Currently AF Elements show creators and modifiers, but AF Templates do not show this information in PI System Explorer. This would make it more obvious when change...
jdjohnstn about 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

Include Windows Counters/OMF Health for Message Log Event Rate

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...
Mike Horrocks about 1 year 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