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How to use the SNMP Interface to Monitor any 3rd Party Device
2/13/2008 |
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Ken Morikawa from the Data Center & IT Solutions Group of OSIsoft presents a webinar on how to use the PI SNMP Interface to monitor real-time data from any 3rd party device that publishes its data using the SNMP protocol. The webinar includes a brief overview of the IT Organizer plug-in to PI SMT (System Management Tools) and the IT Overview add-in to PI ProcessBook, tips on SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), and instruction on how to monitor any SNMP enabled-device.
All PI users get the basic version of the PI SNMP Interface and can use it on their PI Server to monitor up to 32 data points on any 3rd party SNMP-enabled devices (such as network cards, routers, switches, and printers). If you license the full version of the PI SNMP Interface (as part of the MCN Health Monitor or IT Monitor products) you can use the interface to monitor an unlimited number of real-time data points and you have the option to run the interface on a remote PI Interface node.
Here is the agenda for the webinar:
Brief Review of IT Organizer & IT Overview
SNMP Tips (Simple Network Management Protocol)
SNMP 101 - Terminology
How to monitor any SNMP enabled device – Methodology, including:
- Vendor MIB files
- MIB browsers
- How to use MIB files
- How to create an SNMP point template
- ProcessBook display tips
Products: PI SNMP Interface, PI SNMP Interface (Basic), IT Organizer plug-in to SMT, IT Overview add-in to PI ProcessBook.
Speaker: Ken Morikawa |
Interface Update Session: Health Points and Disconnected Startup
10/04/2007 |
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With the release of version 4.3.0.0 of UniInt (Universal Interface) back in May of 2007, an interface built on that release now supports new features. Health Points to monitor the performance of the interface can now be easily created. Such interfaces can now be configured for disconnected startup.
In this webinar we present how to determine what version of UniInt your interface is based on. We teach how to create the Health Points, including the new "Interfaces Information Point" that is used to record the status of all of the interfaces in your PI System in one place. We will teach what trusts are required on the PI Server to enable Health Points (and other points whose data is gathered by the interface) to send data properly to the PI server.
We also describe how to configure your interface to cache a local copy of the point database so that it can start up and begin buffering data immediately without the need for a connection to your PI Server. (This features is known as "disconnected startup" and is implemented using the PI Interface Configuration Utility.)
Products: Interface Configuration Utility, PI OPC Interface (used as an example interface)
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
DataLink for Excel Services Training
9/13/2007 |
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DataLink for Excel Services enables users to retrieve data from the PI Server and utilize DataLink functions on a thin client machine with nothing more than a web browser because all of the necessary components are installed on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).
In this webinar you will learn how to add an Excel Web Part that references a DataLink spreadsheet. We also teach how to query for new data by modifying named parameters through connected web parts. This webinar teaches how to create the demonstrations you may have seen at our User Conference 2007 or at the 6 JUN 07 webinar.
We teach how to create the spreadsheet, publish it for Excel Services, upload the file to a SharePoint document library, host the spreadsheet in an Excel web part, and make connections to other web parts to allow the user to change DataLink data that is displayed. DataLink for Excel Services supports all the functions provided by the PI DataLink and PI BatchView Excel Add-Ins.
Products: RtWebParts, DataLink
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
OPC Clients Connect to PI with the OPC DA/HDA Server
6/28/2007 |
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PI OPC DA/HDA Server is an OPC server for the PI Server. It allows OPC Clients to read and write data using the OPC Data Access (DA) and OPC Historical Data Access (HDA) standards. This webinar will teach you how to configure and use this product.
OPC DA/HDA Server is part of the PI DA (Data Access) Server Module that is included in the PI Enterprise Server Professional, PI Enterprise Server Framework Pack, and Enterprise PI System. You can use it to read current values and historical values, get computed aggregate values, sign up to receive new values as they become available, and insert, replace, or delete archive values. The OPC DA/HDA Server can serve data from multiple PI Systems simultaneously.
Product: PI DA (Data Access) Server Module
Speaker: Steve Pilon |
The PI WMI and the Traceroute Interfaces
5/24/2007 |
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In this webinar we describe two interfaces that can be used to gather important performance information about your computers and your network. The interfaces are the PI WMI Interface and the Traceroute Interface.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) exposes management information about hardware and software running on a Windows computer. The PI-WMI Interface is used to monitor and store this information in PI. This webinar teaches how to configure the PI WMI Interface and how to build PI WMI Interface tags that will contain the WMI data scanned by the interface. (Note: see http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/WMI-intro.mspx to read more about WMI from Microsoft.)
Traceroute is a network tool that attempts to determine all routing points on the network path from a source machine to a specified destination. OSIsoft’s PI Traceroute Interface periodically executes traceroutes for network destinations specified by the user and stores the data it collects in the PI Server. Data is transferred in a single direction and consists of traceroute hops (routing points) and latency. This webinar teaches how to configure the Traceroute Interface and how to build the PI tags that will contain the data derived by the interface.
Products: PI WMI Interface (included in the IT Monitor Advanced and Professional packages) Traceroute Interface (included in the IT Monitor Professional package)
Speaker: Steve Pilon |
Real-time Notification with Rt Alerts
3/29/2007 |
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RtAlerts is an online event monitoring and alert management system that proactively notifies users about important events and condition changes in their plant or process through email. In this webinar Louis Blais , Field Service Engineer, demonstrates how to set up rules for tag monitoring and e-mail notification through a simple Web interface.
Using RtAlerts you can define an RtAlerts rule. This rule defines specific triggering criteria using the PI Performance Equation syntax. The contents of the e-mail message and the recipient list are also defined in this rule. You can also add filters to prevent unnecessarily repetitive alerts.
Products: RtAlerts
Speaker: Louis Blais |
Tag Tuning Best Practices: The Effect on Data Storage when You Change Specific Tag Attributes
1/02/2007 |
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A few PI System tag attributes affect how your real-time values appear in your visualization tools and how those values are stored for future retrieval. In this webinar we present the tag attributes that affect the quality of your data and our recommendations on how to configure those attributes to match your goals.
The webinar will start with a primer on the optional (and highly recommended) data compression that is built into every PI server. Then best practices in point configuration are presented.
Here are a few of the topics that are included. What are recommended exception and compression settings. What to consider when you turn off the exception test. How the step attribute changes the compression test. The relationship between compression specifications and scan rate. How a change of pointtype affects existing values. Potential "gotchas" when you change certain attributes of a tag. When attributes such as shutdown, filtercode, and displaydigits affect (and do not affect) your data.
Products: PI Enterprise Server
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
Analysis Framework Element Templates and the AF Plug-in to ProcessBook
11/30/2006 |
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In this webinar we demonstrate how to create simple Analysis Framework (AF) element templates to represent three types of tanks. We then use those definitions to generate assets that will represent specific tanks in a ProcessBook display using the AF Data and Modeler Add-in to ProcessBook.
We teach how to create "element templates" that define an asset and the attributes of that asset. An attribute can be a hard-coded value such as the diameter of a tank. Or it can be a data reference that specifies a PI tag, a calculation, or a lookup table from which the attribute gets its value. Both types of attributes are taught in this class, including a demonstration of how to make a link to external relational databases.
The AF Data and Modeler Plug-in to ProcessBook works with the assets you create. Use it to associate, for example, a Mixer Tank symbol from the symbol library with a specific template. Then drag the template to the display to generate an asset of that type that is represented onscreen by the Mixer Tank symbol. Attributes of the asset can be modified to show data from real-world instrumentation. The calculations defined generically in the template will be applied to the instrumentation associated with the asset.
We describe AF as a product that "enables an organization to define... its assets and use these assets in simple to complex analyses...." ( Click here for more on AF.) ? You can create models and then apply user-written analysis rules against the interchangeable components of a model. But this webinar does not discuss those advanced features. Instead, those features will be described briefly and the interested student will be directed to online resources to learn more information (click here for an example from the OSIsoft Developer's Network).
Products: Analysis Framework (AF), PI ProcessBook. Location
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio. Ales Soudek. |
RtWebParts v1.1 Training
11/02/2006 |
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The RtWebParts 1.1 webinar on 15 JUN 06 was an excellent strategic overview of the product. In this new webinar we teach the step-by-step instructions on how to make use of new features like true module relative displays in the RtGraphic web part, the RtXYPlot web part, cross-page web part connectivity, the RtMessenger web part, and exporting the RtTable web part data to Excel.
The guest speaker is Jay Lakumb, the developer at OSIsoft in the Clients Software Group who presented the 15 JUN 06 webinar on the new release. He is responsible for portal products including RtWebParts. He will offer commentary on the new features and how they are configured as those features are implemented in live demonstrations. He will be available to answer questions asked during the webinar.
Note: We do not discuss the basics of RtWebParts in this webinar. See the related webinar One Hour of RtWebParts Basics to learn how to add RtWebParts to a web page and how to specify the data source (a PI tag, a Relational Database, or a Web Service) that will be the point of origin for the data displayed in the web parts.
Products: RtWebParts
Speaker: Jay Lakumb |
Event Tracking Made Easier: the DataSheet Control v2.0 and BatchView v3.1
10/12/2006 |
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There are many types of repeatable events. Producing a batch of a specific product is a classic repeatable event, but there are many others. Grade changes, turbine start-ups, tests, and even calendar events such as days and shifts are all repeatable events. We think you should compare these events. Compare them to the last few to detect worrisome trends. Compare them to the best ever to try to improve what you do. Compare them to what you did two years ago to catch any creeping inefficiencies.
We've recently updated two pieces of software that are powerful tools for comparing events. In this webinar we show you how to use the latest versions of the DataSheet Control for PI ProcessBook and PI BatchView add-ins for ProcessBook and Excel
With the OSIsoft DataSheet Control you can write data such as lab results or other non-metered data that will be forever associated with the event you are tracking (e.g. a batch, a shift etc.). You can search various criteria to find a specific event you need to document, and of course input error trapping is supported as well as many other data entry requirements we've learned from customers over the last 25 years.
BatchView implements through add-ins to ProcessBook and Excel the tools you need to find and compare repeatable events. New to version 3.x is the full support in Excel for all levels of events (PIBatches, PIUnitBatches and PISubBatches) and customized naming of display items for a user-interface that refers to repeatable events using your nomenclature instead of "batch" oriented terms. Many other new features will be presented.
Note: We do not discuss how to configure the PI server so that it creates batch records to track repeatable events. See the related webinar Create Batch and Process Event Records Automatically with PIBaGen if you are interested in configuring the PI server to generate records of repeated segments of process history (such as batches). The webinar replay is located at http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/reg/osi/training.
The "Show Me How" series of training webinars are available only to customers with a current Software Reliance Program (SRP) agreement. When you register for this class you will need to provide your site number. See the registration pages linked below for instructions on how to register for the webinar.
Speakers: Nick D'Orazio, Rorik Melberg, and Chris Coent. |
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IT Organizer and IT Point Builders: Time Saving Automation for IT Monitor and MCN-HM Users
9/12/2006 |
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IT Monitor ( link) displays and archives the real-time status of networks, devices and applications, with unparalleled data collection and resolution capabilities that go beyond typical monitoring limits. Manufacturing Control Network (MCN) Health Monitor ( link) does many of the same tasks for the IT infrastructure of a process manufacturing organization. You can use the same tools for either product to create the desired PI points and the PI ProcessBook displays quickly. This webinar teaches how to use these tools.
The Performance Monitor Point Builder plug-in for PI SMT quickly builds the sets of PI points that will be most useful in monitoring the type of server you specify. Counter Templates are available to build points to monitor servers running the PI Enterprise Server, SQL Server, IIS6, SharePoint Portal Server and many other enterprise applications. When it is time to build ProcessBook displays to monitor these points, you can use the IT Organizer to build the displays automatically, again using templates that match the points to the type of server you want to monitor.
In this webinar we teach how to do the following tasks:
Build PI Performance Monitor points using the Performance Monitor Point Builder plug-in for SMT 3.x and the Counter Templates available for IT Monitor and MCN Heatlh Monitor.
Choose a Monitoring Package in the IT Organizer to define a role that will be used to build displays automatically.
Create a tree structure in the IT Organizer and assign the role created above to a node on the tree.
In ProcessBook navigate to the tree node created above and build displays based on the role created above.
Note: We do not discuss how to configure or start the interfaces used for data collection in this webinar. To learn more about this, please view the replay of the webinar "MCN Health Monitor: How to Install Interfaces and Configure Tags" located at http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/reg/osi/training.
The "Show Me How" series of training webinars are available only to customers with a current Software Reliance Program (SRP) agreement. When you register for this class you will need to provide your site number. See the registration pages linked below for instructions on how to register for the webinar.
Speakers: Ken Morikawa, Director of Engineering Services, WiredCity a division of OSIsoft.
Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft.
Products: IT Monitor, MCN Health Monitor, PI SMT 3.x, IT Organizer. | |
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Store Hand-Collected Data, Part II: PI Manual Logger v2.x
8/29/2006 |
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PI Manual Logger v2.x implements both client and server functions that automate many of the tasks involved in gathering data by hand and entering it into PI. There are many improvements over v1.2 such as support for ad hoc comments, multiple comments for the same entry, and comment templates. In this webinar we describe the features of PI Manual Logger, how to complete the initial configuration, and how to configure tours and execute tour runs both using a PC and using a hand-held Windows Mobile device.
Included in the webinar are discussions of new features for this release, those things that existing customers can expect if they move from v1.2 to v2.x, the benefits of using features such as the PIML Windows Services and PIML Web Services, and the plans for the future. There will also be demonstrations of how to configure the initial connection to the required SQL database, how to create a tour, and how to execute a tour run.
Note: If you are currently using PIML v1.2, the webinar "Store Hand-Collected Data Using the PI ManualLogger" located at http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/reg/osi/training uses PIML v1.2.
The "Show Me How" series of training webinars are available only to customers with a current Software Reliance Program (SRP) agreement. When you register for this class you will need to provide your site number. See the registration pages linked below for instructions on how to register for the webinar.
Speakers: Li Gao, Software Developer.
Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager
Products: PI Manual Logger |
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Interface Troubleshooting
8/17/2006 |
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What do you do when you create a new PI tag and its value remains "Pt Created"? Or when all of the tags collected by one of your OPC interfaces fail to update on the server? In this webinar Clarissa Charles and John Nguyen from OSIsoft technical support explain where to begin if these or other interface problems occur.
The webinar starts with a refresher on the basics of interface startup and configuration. Included is how to recognize and troubleshoot problems in the following areas: 1) tag configuration, 2) interface configuration, 3) data communication, and 4) buffering. There will also be discussions on the common errors and how to recognize when it is best to call technical support instead of trying to fix it yourself.
The webinar is designed for system managers who are familiar with interface operation who want to learn better troubleshooting techniques. If you are unfamiliar with interfaces please review first the " One Hour of PI Interface Basics" webinar replay located at http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/reg/osi/training. (Also of interest may be the webinars "MCN Health Monitor: How to Install Interfaces and Configure Tags" and "Interfaces We Can All Use: PI Flat File, PI Universal File Loader, PI HTML, and PI XML.")
The "Show Me How" series of training webinars are available only to customers with a current Software Reliance Program (SRP) agreement. When you register for this class you will need to provide your site number. See the registration pages linked below for instructions on how to register for the webinar.
Speakers: Clarissa Charles, John Nguyen, Nick D'Orazio
Products: PI Interfaces |
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How to Build an Add-in to PI ProcessBook
7/13/2006 |
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When you want ProcessBook VBA scripts to run from within any display in a way that is easy to share with any user, the best solution is to build an add-in. When a user loads your ProcessBook add-in, the shortcuts or added functionality made possible by your VBA script can be triggered by common system events like double clicking the background, dropping a trend cursor, or opening a new display. We teach how to use the VB 6 Add-in Wizard to create the add-in, how to write the code that hooks your procedures to user actions in ProcessBook, and how to use Microsoft’s Packaging and Deployment Wizard to create an installation disk for your add-in.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: PI ProcessBook, Microsoft Visual Basic 6 |
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Enabling Auditing Features of Your PI Server
6/22/2006 |
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The PI Audit Database creates an audit trail of changes to process data, point configurations, and 9 other types of information stored in PI. These records are secure enough to satisfy requirements of even heavily regulated industries and are used by customers to satisfy electronic reporting regulations such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
We teach how to enable the Audit Database, either for all edits or only when user-specified types of records are edited. How to backup and restore the audit records are taught, as well as how to search through both online and archived audit records using the PI AuditViewer. Finally, a review of other sources of audit information (such as the PI Audit Trail Message Log and the local pipc.log) will be discussed.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Software: PI AuditViewer |
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Doing Product Quality Management
6/6/2006 |
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In this webinar we've taken an implementation of a high-value application developed by OSIsoft industry managers and teach how to do it step-by-step.
During our demos and at our user conference you see different products interacting with each other to implement rich manufacturing applications. This class provides a walkthrough of the steps needed to implement a Product Quality Management system using these products. We present the solution as it is implemented from the first to the last step, showing the configurations required to make the products work with each other. Manuals are available for download that list each step.
Customers tell us that Product Quality Management software is available from a variety of vendors. The goal of this class is to show you how to implement such a system with the software you may already own.
Note: this is a condensed version of the "Walkthrough of Product Quality Management" that was presented at the 2006 OSIsoft User Conference. It was held in two parts on Tuesday June 6th, 2006 and Thursday June 8th, 2006.
Speakers: Eric Cardinal, Field Service Engineer, OSIsoft
Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: ProcessBook, RtWebParts, ProcessPoint, BatchView, the Data Grid control, RtReports, and RtAlerts. |
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Intro to ProcessBook Scripting: Valuable Macros with 5 Lines of Code
6/1/2006 |
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Scenario: an important user asks you to place an indicator on the PI ProcessBook trend that slides along the time range axis to show graphically the current lag in minutes between two pieces of equipment. This time lag is calculated by an application and the results are stored into an Oracle database. Can you do this using ProcessBook?
With the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) that is embedded with ProcessBook this and other valuable user requests can be done with just a few lines of code. We teach how to get started with the Visual Basic Editor, where to download examples of VBA scripting in ProcessBook, and where to go to learn more.
These scripts are popularly called "macros". They are the starting point for building an add-in to ProcessBook to extend its functionality to all users. (This will be taught in our July 13 webinar "How to Build an Add-in to PI ProcessBook.") The webinar is designed for beginners who are familiar with programming or macro languages but not necessarily familiar with VBA.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: PI ProcessBook |
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One Hour of Interface Basics
5/18/2006 |
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| It is not unusual to add a new or replace an existing interface to the PI server. To do this you must configure the new interface and the PI points in which the interface stores the values it retrieves. PI interfaces use a universal interface standard (known as UniInt) so that what you learn for one interface applies to most others. We teach how to configure the startup settings of a UniInt interface, how to create points collected by the interface, how to buffer data locally when the PI server is shut down, and how to measure and troubleshoot the performance of the interface. | |
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Using PI ProfileView to Monitor Paper Quality or Any Sheet Process
5/11/2006 |
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We teach how to configure PI ProfileView displays to monitor the surface of two-dimensional sheet type material. These displays use color-coded limit indicators to make streaks and other areas of concern easy to spot.
For customers with no sheet-oriented products we present how to view in a data-dense and easy to understand display the history of an array of continuous data. For example, the current value and history of the set of plate temperatures in a boiler are easily monitored using PI ProfileView. ProfileView can also be used to analyze patterns of defects in a process that involves arrays or lines of identical equipment whose output quality is measured.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: PI ProfileView |
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Use PI BatchView to Display Repeated Segments of Process Data in PI Datalink and PI Processbook
3/2/2006 |
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In our Improving Your Batch and Process Event Analysis Capabilities webinar we demonstrated PI BatchView and explained the improvements you can make in your process using the knowledge gained from this tool. (Click here to see a list of this and other webinars.) In this webinar we teach how to build the ProcessBook displays and Excel spreadsheets that use BatchView. This includes how to search for batch records and how to determine which PI process values are associated with a given batch (via aliases).
See the related webinar Create Batch and Process Event Records Automatically with PIBaGen if you are interested in configuring the PI server to generate records of repeated segments of process history (such as batches).
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: PI BatchView |
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Interfaces We Can All Use: PI Flat File, PI Universal File Loader, PI HTML, and PI XML
2/16/2006 |
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There are rich sources of data that aren’t collected using traditional control system interfaces. This webinar present four interfaces to data stored in ascii text, html, or xml files.
The PI Flat File interface retrieves data from files located in a user-defined local or network directory at user-defined intervals. Input files must match the format supported by this interface. The PI Universal File Loader improves on this by allowing you to specify the format of the input file using a powerful format definition language. The PI HTML interface retrieves data at regular intervals from fields on web sites. The PI XML interface reads data stored in XML files that meet the OPC-XML-DA specification. Alternately data from XML servers that do not meet this specification can be read with the use of a custom plug-in DLL to process and transform non-conforming files.
In this webinar a simple example of each of the four interfaces will be demonstrated. We will teach how to configure the interface startup and the supporting files for each interface.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Products: PI Flat File Interface.
PI Universal File Loader Interface.
PI HTML Interface.
PI XML Interface. |
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Create Batch and Process Event Records Automatically with PIBaGen
1/26/2006 |
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PIBaGen, the PI Batch Generator Interface, is the part of the PI Batch and Event Analysis product that creates batch records by monitoring the snapshot values of user-specified PI tags. We teach how to use PIBaGenCfg to specify the tags that are used to signal the start and end of batches and sub-batches. Also taught is how to specify the tags that are used to derive other components associated with a batch record such as the record ID and product name.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft |
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Connecting to Relational Databases.
1/5/2006 |
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Data in a Relational Database (RDB) is available to PI in a variety of ways.
In PI ProcessBook an ODBC dataset retrieves RDB data into a display.
The OLEDB COM Connector fetches RDB data and makes it available to every PI application.
The PI Relational Database Interface (RDBMS via ODBC) moves data bidirectionally between PI and an RDB (and unlike the COM connector duplicates the data).
Users of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 can use “Linked Server,” a virtual RDBMS server that accesses PI data via OLEDB in a way that is transparent to the SQL Server user.
For developers, the PI Data Access Pack allows RDB access using either the ODBC standard or the later OLEDB standard.
In this webinar each of these methods is demonstrated using a simple example designed not to impress but to show how easily these connections are made.
For a more ambitious application of our connectivity to RDBs, see the webinar Unifying Transactional & Production Data for Effective Reporting located here. (SRP is NOT required for this “Show Me the Value” webinar.)
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft
Q&A: http://portal.osisoft.com/sites/kcenter/KMDocLib1/WebinarQA_RDB.doc |
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Make Better Displays and Reports Using the Module Database
12/15/2005 |
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The PI Module Database "sorts PI System contents into useful groups… and makes them ready for use in programs and displays" (see http://www.osisoft.com/products/5_202.aspx for more info). This webinar teaches how to build displays and spreadsheets that exploit the hierarchical data trees of the PI Module Database.
Most customers have types of equipment that reoccur in large numbers across an organization, all with similar live data streams. (Some examples are feeders, transformers, valves, pumps, boilers, exchangers, routers, and NT servers.) This webinar teaches how to 1) build a ProcessBook display (or Excel spreadsheet) for a given type of equipment and 2) add a tree structure that lets the user find a specific piece of equipment of that type to view its process data.
Q&A: http://portal.osisoft.com/sites/kcenter/KMDocLib1/WebinarQA_MDB.doc |
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MCN Health Monitor: How to Install Interfaces and Configure Tags
12/1/2005 |
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Manufacturing Control Network Health Monitor includes a set of interfaces installed on a PI server or interface server that collect IT infrastructure data from the manufacturing network, applications, and devices such as routers and firewalls. There are interface specific tools to build PI tags that monitor these devices. We teach how to configure the interfaces and how to build the tags as well as offer advice on the best practices and templates currently available to decide what real time information to monitor.
For more information on the features of MCN Health Monitor, see the OSIsoft marketing webinar "Using PI to monitor the IT in your Manufacturing Control Network."
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft |
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One Hour of RtWebParts Basics
11/17/2005 |
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We teach how to add RtWebParts to a web page to display process trends, tables, and graphics in a web browser. We also teach how to specify the data source (a PI tag, a Relational Database, or a Web Service) that will be the point of origin for the data displayed in the web parts.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio, E-Learning Manager, OSIsoft. |
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Advanced Supervisory Alarms using PI
10/6/2005 |
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Is there a web site that tracks industry prices or benchmarks whose updating values might be a trigger for an alarm? Or perhaps there is a laboratory value stored in a relational database that, when considered against live process values, can trigger a bad quality warning? Because PI can retrieve data from web sites, relational databases, ERP systems, competing historians, and many other sources of data, supervisory alarms that you may not have considered are possible.
In this webinar you will learn
- how to create a PI Alarm tag,
- what types of alarms are available, and
- how to use the new PI AlarmView client to monitor Alarms. |
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Store Hand-Collected Data Using the PI ManualLogger
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With the PI ManualLogger, you can easily and reliably record lab data or plant log sheets in PI through handheld devices or computers. This class teaches how to create at tour, download the tour to a hand-held computer or Pocket PC PDA, and manage the collection and retrieval of tour run data.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Building Calculations in ACE to Support Plant Performance Monitoring, VB.NET
9/1/2005 |
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Before you can build the powerful ACE calculation that takes its inputs from a relational database, a web browser, and a foreign historian, you need to know how to create a simple calculation. In this one hour webinar we teach how to use the ACE Wizard in Visual Basic .net to create a calculation, compile and test it, and schedule it to execute regularly or by event trigger. (Note: an alternate session is offered using Visual Basic 6.)
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Building Calculations in ACE to Support Plant Performance Monitoring, VB6
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Before you can build the powerful ACE calculation that takes its inputs from a relational database, a web browser, and a foreign historian, you need to know how to create a simple calculation. In this one hour webinar we teach how to use the ACE Wizard in Visual Basic 6 to create a calculation, compile and test it, and schedule it to execute regularly or by event trigger. (Note: an alternate session is offered using Visual Basic .net.)
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Detect Assignable Cause Variations using PI-SQC
8/4/2005 |
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PI features a server SQC application, a tag building wizard, and a client visualization tool that you can use to build real-time X-Bar Charts, Range Charts, and other Statistical Quality Control charts. This webinar presents how to use the ProcessBook SQC add-in to create SQC charts. With the SQC add-in you can determine which process measurements to use to define a useful SQC alarm. The add-in also helps you to determine what control limits should be used and what filtering of outliers, if any, is appropriate for these alarms. The webinar describes how to use the information gained from using the add-in to configure an ongoing real-time SQC alarm using OSI's Real-Time SQC application. Finally, we present how to use the ProcessBook SQC add-in as a viewing tool for Real-Time SQC alarms.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Create displays, add live data elements such as trends, values, and bargraphs, and add process graphics. This is a class for anyone at your site who needs to use existing ProcessBook displays and create new displays. No previous experience is required, although those who have used ProcessBook before may learn a few things that are easy to overlook.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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One Hour of Datalink Basics
6/30/2005 |
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Use the PI Datalink Add-in to Excel to retrieve current values, history, and calculated values from the PI server. This is a class for anyone at your site who needs to create or use existing Excel spreadsheets that use the Datalink add-in to retrieve data from PI. No previous experience is required.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Simple Steps to Totalizations and other Aggregations
6/2/2005 |
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Every copy of the PI Enterprise Server ships with the Totalizer package. In this training webinar you learn how to use the PI System Manager Tools Totalizer plug-in to create traditional totalizations as well as averages and other types of aggregations. This will include such calculations as how many times a pump has been turned on during a shift, or how long during the day a valve has been open.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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Review of PI System Manager "Must Do's"
5/5/2005 |
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In this training webinar we present how to back up the PI server, how to monitor and create new archives, and what routine PI tasks we suggest you do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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How to Use Windows Usernames to Connect to PI
4/7/2005 |
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ProcessBook 3.0 and Datalink 3.0 are the first widespread PI user applications that are based on the PI-SDK. One of the benefits of the PI-SDK is that security can be negotiated based on Windows usernames and domain membership. In this training webinar you'll learn how to configure the PI Server so that SDK based clients can connect based on Windows authentication and thereby accomplish the single sign-on capability that has long been desired by users.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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The PI Server Performance Monitor Kit plus more
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Every PI server ships with three interfaces that help you monitor the health of various computer resources. The PI Server Performance Monitor Kit is a simple to use Developer's Network application you can use to track metrics on your PI server. But we also have other spreadsheets and ProcessBook displays that we can share with you to help you create and view tags that monitor the health of your Windows server and your network. This training webinar teaches where to find and how to use the free of charge tools that can help you monitor your IT resources.
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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PI Datalink Reports that use the Module Database
2/3/2005 |
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Create a spreadsheet that displays unit specific data as you select different elements from a tree structure defined in the PI Module Database. We demonstrate:
1) how to create a tree structure of PI modules
2) how to assign aliases that represent PI tags and properties that represent static meta-data to the appropriate module
3) how to create spreadsheets that use this structure to improve the user interface
Speaker: Nick D'Orazio |
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