- Getting Started
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How to Navigate This Course
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Discussion Forum
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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
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Credentials Used in this Class
- Introduction
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Introduction [2:09]
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Overview of the Course
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Background: Overview of Course Setup [3:31]
- Configuring Security
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Background: Upgrading and Migrating Interfaces
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Hands-On: Interfacing Read-only [16:41]
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Background: Authentication vs. Authorization
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Knowledge Check: PI Data Archive Authentication
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Background: So do I Ever Use Trusts?
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Hands-On: Configuring Cross-Domain Security [25:27]
- High Availability and Redundancy
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Background: How PI Server High Availability Works [4:15]
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Hands-On: Installing AF with a Remote SQL Backend [11:19]
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Knowledge Check: Correcting Permissions for RTQP
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Background: Preparing for a Highly Available PI Server
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Hands-On: Implementing PI Server High Availability [20:50]
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Knowledge Check: Authenticating our Interface
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Knowledge Check: Configure Automatic Data Archive Backups
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Knowledge Check: Service Permissions and Buffering
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Background: When do we Add More Servers? [10:35]
- (Optional) Other Resources
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About this section
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Background: PI Connector for OPC UA - Installation and Configuration
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Background: PI Adapter for OPC UA - Installation and Configuration
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Background: PI System Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Final Exam
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Final Exam
- How did it go?
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Course Evaluation
PI System Administration: Beyond the Basics
Learn to architect, upgrade, and secure highly available PI Data Archive, Asset Framework, and Interfaces
This class covers what you need to know to expand, secure, upgrade, or increase uptime on PI Systems. In the basics class we covered installation and configuration of the simplest minimum viable PI System. In this class, we're no longer assuming we live in a fantasy land where everything goes right for us - and we're building something bigger and better, and implementing an architecture that works across domains and secure networks. We're aiming for tight security, high uptime, and zero data loss.
In this class we teach theory while going through common, practical examples that you'll most likely come across on the job. We start with a poorly implemented system, and fix it up - going through theory while we do. You'll learn not only the skills to update and upgrade existing PI Systems, but also critically think through solutions to problems.
By the end of the course, you will be able to...
- Manage multiple interfaces on a single interface machine
- Update, upgrade or move an interface from one version to the next
- Allow cross-domain authentication for interfaces
- Install Asset Framework (AF) with a remote SQL backend
- Configure a set of redundant AF Servers
- Configure a Data Archive collective
- Devise a strategy to expand or rearchitect a PI System
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 be an extension on the PI System Administration: Basics class, and it's assumed that any attendees have already attended that class, or at least have a working knowledge of basic PI System Administration.
Level: Advanced
Study Time: 12 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:
- Training Cloud Environments (One Month Access)
- Training Cloud Environments (One Year Access)
- 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
- Completion of the PI System Administration: Basics class, or equivalent experience
- 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 1.5.1.10
- 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