- Getting Started
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How to Navigate This Course
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Discussion Forum
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Offline Course Videos for Blocked YouTube Users
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Course Workbook
- Training Cloud Environment
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Cloud Environments Introduction
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Cloud Environments Instructions
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Launch Cloud Environment
- Introduction
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Introduction [1:56]
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Overview of the Course
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Hands-On: Overview of Course Setup [7:31]
- Preparing for a PI System
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Background: What Preparation is Needed?
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Background: Hardware Sizing
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Background: Software Prerequisites
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Background: Service Accounts and Certificates
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Background: Firewall Port Requirements
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Background: PI Data Archive License File Activation
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Reference: PI Data Archive Install Technical Standards
- PI Server Installation
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Hands-On: PI Server Installation [16:03]
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Hands-On: Post-Install - Backup [9:58]
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Hands-On: Post-Install - Security [13:27]
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Knowledge Check: Final Post-Install Tasks
- PI Interface Installation
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Background: How Does the PI System Connect to Data Sources?
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Hands-On: PI Interface Installation [5:01]
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Knowledge Check: Confirming Connectivity
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Hands-On: PI Interface Configuration [11:40]
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Knowledge Check: The Bufferer, the Betterer
- PI Point Management
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Hands-On: Creating Points for Interfaces [10:08]
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Background: Explore PI Points and Interfaces [8:11]
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Background: Compression and Exception [4:15]
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Reference: The Interface User Manual
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Knowledge Check: Creating Digital Points
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Hands-On: Creating Points in Bulk [11:14]
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Knowledge Check: Confirming Interface Operation
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Knowledge Check: The PI Data Archive Message Log
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Knowledge Check: Creating More Points
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Knowledge Check: Analysis Calculation Points
- Improving Interface Reliability
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Background: Interface Redundancy
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Knowledge Check: Preparing a Second PI Interface
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Hands-On: Configure UNIINT Failover [16:51]
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Knowledge Check: Interface Health Points
- Managing User Access
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Hands-On: Data Archive Security [9:46]
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Background: What is Asset Framework? [4:16]
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Hands-On: Asset Framework Security [12:04]
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Knowledge Check: Contractor Access
- Managing Data
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Background: What are Archive Files? [4:30]
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Knowledge Check: PI Archives in Depth
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Knowledge Check: Moving Archives
- Final Exam
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Final Exam
- How did it go?
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Course Evaluation
PI System Administration: Basics
Learn to install, configure, manage, and support PI Data Archive and PI Interfaces.
This course will provide you with a working knowledge of many of the tasks required to configure and maintain a PI System. The guiding principle behind this course is that after completion, you should be able to confidently install and maintain a small PI System by yourself.
Although not everyone that takes this course will install a PI System of their own, going through the installation process in a learning environment will introduce all the moving parts of the system, and give you the confidence to be able to troubleshoot problems yourself. This course will provide you with hands-on activities that involve working with various PI System Management utilities, such as PI System Management Tools and PI Interface Configuration Utility. The hands on portion is achieved by using the Cloud Environment provided with this course.
By the end of the course, you will be able to...
- Describe the data flow in a simple PI System
- Prepare for a PI System Installation
- Install and configure a new PI Server, including the Data Archive and Asset Framework components
- Install and configure a new PI Interface
- Create and manage PI Points
- Configure Interface redundancy
- Manage user access to the PI System
- Manage archive files on a Data Archive
Audience
This course is best suited for a PI System administrator who is responsible for setting up and maintaining the PI System. It is designed to help perform administrative tasks as well as introduce the tools available for common management tasks and troubleshooting.
Level: Introductory
Study Time: 16 hours
Course Access: Unlimited access to all content except the Training Cloud Environment (TCE). You have 30 days access to the TCE starting on the day you access module section "Launch Cloud Environment".
After those 30 days you can purchase additional access with one of the two options below:
- This course is self-paced for your convenience. Thus, there are no live components to the course, nor are there required login hours. Please use the video lectures and text-based lessons for instruction along with the course exercises to gain experience working with the key concepts presented.
- There is a final quiz which you must pass to obtained a certificate of completion.
- Once you register for a course, you will have access to the course materials 24/7 on this website.
Prerequisites
- Completion of the free PI System Basics class
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and relational databases.
- Basic Windows directory navigation and management (Windows Explorer, creating and finding files)
- Basic Windows and Network security (why you log in, what is a domain, etc.)
- Familiarity with your real-time data sources (control systems, PLCs, OPC)
- A computer that can access our YouTube content, and pass our connection test
This course includes...
- Videos, exercises and quizzes to help you learn the material
- A Cloud Environment accessible for 30 days and configured to complete all the exercises in the course
- A sharable certificate of completion
Software versions used in this course
This course is applicable to all modern PI Systems, and would suit customers installing or maintaining PI Systems installed any time after 2012, as the core administration workflows have remained largely the same since then.
- PI Server 2018 SP3
- PI Interface Configuration Utility 1.5.0.7
- PI Interface for OPC DA 2.7.1.41
Further Information
- When you complete the examination at the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion which can be shared and directly posted on LinkedIn.
- This is a self-paced course. Any questions or assistance needed about the material can be asked in this course's space in the OSIsoft PI Square community.
- For more information about our Online Courses please visit our FAQ page
You can audit the full video lecture content right now on the OSIsoft Learning YouTube Channel