PI Interface for EnergyAxis to support REXU-EA meter types.

Currently, UniInt-based interfaces will reload a tag if edits are detected on any of the PI Point attributes. This is not ideal as edits to non-key attributes (such as EngUnits) will still cause a tag to be reloaded, potentially leading to data source issues if large numbers of edits are made.

Requesting to add the option to filter out edits to PI Point attributes that are not used by the interface to avoid unnecessary reloads.

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. When the tool is run into error with certain branches, the tool will stop and disconnected from the OPC server/tunneller. For example: “GetItemProperties(“xxx”) error 0x800706be. The remote procedure call failed. pEnumleaves  Next() returned 0x800706ba”
If we could specify an option for the tool to skip those branches in error and also attempt to reconnect to the OPC server/tunneller, for automation purpose for the tool to continue running instead of exiting.

As a PI System Administrator, I would like to monitor the point count and other parameters for scan class 0 via Performance Counters. Currently, this is only exposed via the UniInt Health Tags.

When primary server is down, secondary server is accessed instead of primary server, which is good. However, in the case of output point with source tag, it stops working, then restarting the interface instance of interest is needed. Of course, if we set up UniInt Failover that backup instance keeps its session with secondary server, this issue can be prevented. But, it will be better if source tag is also switched to secondary server.

Currently, the device status is updated on startup, on change, on shutdown, and on each performance summary interval.

However, for a device status tag created while the interface is running in a good state, the device status tag will remain at 'Pt Created' and not update until the interface status changes or the interface is restarted.

A newly created device status tag should display the current state of the interface without needing a status change. This is especially helpful in cases where the interface cannot be restarted for the tag to pick up a status update.

Allow for monthly scan intervals for scan classes. i.e. "scan monthly on the first hour of the first day of every month".

(Posted on behalf of our customer)

It can reduce the chance of startup failure because of the connection to PI Data Archive time-out. It's also helpful if interface can reduce time to get PI point information from PI Data Archive.

Provide a configuration option in UniInt interfaces, to enable shutdown of the interface if it consistently receives error messages when attempting to write to PI. Recently had an interface successfully connect to PI but not achieve write access to its tags; would've been nice to have this interface gracefully shut down or restart, and allow its UFO failover partner to serve the data flow

I understand that you can remotely view logs using pigetmsg. However this solution does not work for me as the interface is on a controlled network that only allows outbound traffic. I would like a way for the interface node to be able to push out interface logs somewhere such as to my DA, that way I could use SMT to view my interface logs.

Prior to UniInt v4.6.0.60, UFO sync files created during interface startup would inherit file permissions from their parent folder (assuming child inheritance had been enabled on the folder).

With UniInt v4.6.0.60, this behavior changed and now sync files created by the interface do not respect inheritance.  Instead, they are created with a standard ACL containing only the local "Administrators" and "Users" security groups.

For users with complex file permission schemas, this change introduces additional, unnecessary configuration efforts that scale as interface numbers grow beyond the site-level. 

Currently (as of PI to PI Interface AutoPointSync Connector Version 1.5.0.7), it's not possible to sync changes to "Point type". (See pg 5 of user manual).

Please make this possible in a future release.

Regulatory and/or security requirement to separate data collection from data storage using a one-way data flow. Could apply to Interfaces or Connectors, for example PI Interface for Emerson Ovation.
PI Interface/Connector -> one-way data flow -> PI Server/EDS/OCS

For a PI tag with a specific scan class, if no new value is collected by the PI Interface after a period of time (for example 2x the scan class) , the interface will add automaticaly the value "No Data". It will avoid the usage of a dedicated analyze for this, in the PI Server. And like that, the PI user will be aware of the issue, by using any PI Visualization tool.

We noticed that changes to the configuration of newer interfaces / connectors like
- PI EMDVBCS interface 4.0
- PI inbatch interface
- PI Connector Wonderware Historian
are no longer recorded in the PI Audit trail. (see also TechSupport Case # 937205)
This is a compliance issue for the regulated industries.

1. Having the capability of acknowledging the message in the PI Buffer GUI and removing the "red flag" when messages acknoledged.
2. Having the Buffer updated automatically when a tag is renamed, without having to restart the buffer.