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Support PI tag renaming
Tags created by a PI Connector can be renamed, but these renamed points can be "forgotten" if the Connector's point cache is lost. Updating the Tag Mapping configuration file can avoid this cache loss, but I would like to be able to rename Connector tags without updating this configuration file.
167 votesWe plan to provide users the ability to pick their tag naming convention and not worry about managing a cache file. We are working on implementing this functionality with PI Connector for OPC UA.
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PI Connector for OPC UA Relay Support
As a PI Admin relays allow for improved security of process-network-to-DMZ communication. This will greatly aide in the PI Connector for OPC UA's deployment in production systems.
47 votesWe are currently working on adding Relay support for PI Connector for OPC UA.
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Ability to change which PI tag the PI Connector for OPC UA writes to without having recreate new PI tags
Currently, once PI tags are created by the PI Connector for OPC UA the connector uses the point ID for its mapping from the OPC UA server to the PI tags. Thus, if a configuration change occurs on your OPC UA server (i.e. NodeIDs change) the only way to map the newly named (with no change in the data stream) NodeID to a PI tag is to create a new PI tag instead of simply changing the configuration on a PI tag. As a PI system administrator, I want the ability to change a PI tag attribute (i.e. Extended Descriptor)…
33 votesWe are currently working on incorporating functionality that will allow users to write data to existing tags without having to recreate a new set of tags.
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Support Server Level Failover
To ensure that data continues to flow from the OPC UA server to PI Connector for OPC UA, the connector could be configured to switch to another OPC UA server under the same conditions as the OPC DA Interface
24 votesWe are currently working on enabling server-level failover for PI Connector for OPC UA.
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Selecting a subset of items from the same OPC UA template
When multiple OPC objects share the same template, you can only either select the entire template or not since only the template would be populating the filter file. In the example above, if one were to want to bring CC1001 in PI but not CC2001, then, they would need to be moved to a specific folder in the UA Server or change the template on the UA Server side. There should be a user-friendly way to perform more granular selection
13 votesWe are currently working on this feature.
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