PI System High Availability : Interface Redundancy and Disconnected Interface Startup Andy Singh, Ph.D., OPC Team Tony Cantele, Uniint Team Leader

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 2 System Management Tools Thin Clients: RtPortal, RtWebParts, Rich Clients: ProcessBook, DataLink, Custom Application… PI SDK Foundation Concurrent HA Developments Data Buffering Services PI Interfaces Failover Mechanisms Data Buffering Services PI Interfaces PI Interface Startup without PI Server Connection Primary PI Server Primary PI Server PIANO Configuration Changes Secondary PI Server Secondary PI Server PIANO Secondary PI Server PIANO

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 3 Definitions and Terms Interface Level Failover UNIINT Data Source/Control System Disconnected Startup

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 4 Agenda Interface Level Failover –Introduction –Demo of Planned Maintenance –Demo of Uninterrupted Data Collection –Cost Effective Solution –Simple Configuration Disconnected Startup –Data Collection without PI –Faster Startup Option

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 5 What is Interface Level Failover? Two interface nodes –Communicate to same data source –Only one node sends data Types of failover –Hot, Warm, Cold –Determined by data source and network Input/Output tags PI Server Primary Node Backup Node Data Source

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 6 Typical Network Setup Backup NodePrimary Node PI Server Firewall PI Client Data Source Process Network Business Network OPC

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 7 Stress Free Maintenance Data is Available during Maintenance –OS/Security Patch –PI Software Update –Hardware Upgrade Better decisions

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 8 Network setup for Demo Backup Node Primary Node Router Data Source Process Network Business Network PI Server and Client OPC server

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 9 Demo Interface Failover during Maintenance

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 10 Network setup for Demo Backup Node Primary Node Router Data Source Process Network Business Network OPC PI Server and Client OPC server

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 11 Demo Interface Failover with Network Fault

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 12 OSIsoft’s Failover Solution is Inexpensive 3 rd Party solutions can be expensive –Limited Hardware Support –Difficult Setup –Expensive Maintenance Implementation only requires two PCs

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 13 Simple and Standardized Configuration Simple Interface Configuration Standardized for most interfaces Basic Tag Configuration /ufo_id* 2 - /ufo_otherid* 3 - /ufo_primary 4 - /ufo_interval * Must be consistent for both nodes

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 14 Demo Configuring Interface Failover with ICU

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 15 Why six PI tags? Point 1 Data Source Interface 1 PI Tags Input Tag Output Tag Point 2 Source Tag

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 16 Why six PI tags? Interface 2 Heartbeat 2 Data Source Interface 1 PI Tags Heartbeat 1 Active ID Heartbeat 2, Output Heartbeat 2, Input Heartbeat 1, Input Heartbeat 1, Output Active ID, Input Active ID, Output

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 17 Summary of Interface Level Failover Normal data collection continues with network or hardware faults Cost effective solution Stress Free Maintenance Simple and Standardized Configuration across all Interfaces

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 18 What is disconnected Startup? Interfaces do not need connection to PI to start Cached copy of Point DB –Improved startup times –Collect and buffer data w/o PI Sychronization of Point Changes PI Server Interface Node sinusoid cdt158 cdm158 … Cached Tag List

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 19 Development Timeline

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 20 Top 10 interfaces OPC DA Interface (currently ongoing) Intellution Fix DMACS Modbus Ethernet Interface Wonderware InTouch Interface Foxboro IA Interface (Windows & Solaris)* OPC HDA Interface Modbus Serial Interface OPC Alarms and Events Interface GE Cimplicity Interface Interfaces contained in MCN Health Monitor

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 21 Conclusion Simple, Enterprise, Available (SEA) –Simple setup and configuration –Maintenance and improved TCO for the Enterprise –Data Reliability and Availability

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 22 Network setup for Demo Backup Node Primary Node Router Data Source Process Network Business Network PI Server and Client OPC server OPC

Copyright © 2006 OSIsoft, Inc. Company Confidential. All rights reserved. 23 Thank You!