Configure PI interface for PI ICU

Note: PI ICU requires PI 3.3 or later.

The PI Interface Configuration Utility provides a graphical user interface for configuring PI interfaces. If the interface is configured by the PI ICU, the batch file of the interface (PIModbus.bat) will be maintained by the PI ICU and all configuration changes will be kept in that file and the PI Module Database. The procedure below describes the necessary steps for using PI ICU to configure the ModbusE Interface.

1. From the PI ICU menu, select Interface, then NewWindows Interface Instance from EXE…, and then Browse to the PIModbusE.exe executable file. Then, enter values for Host PI System, Point Source and Interface ID#. A window such as the following results:

   

2. Browse to the PIModbusE.exe executable file. Then, enter values for Host PI Data Archive/Collective, Point Source, and Interface ID#. Interface name as displayed in the ICU (optional) will have PI- pre-pended to this name and it will be the display name in the services menu.

   

   Note: Note that in this example the host PI Data server is martinfrpc2. To configure the interface to communicate with a remote PI Data server, select Connections… on the PI ICU Interface menu and select the default server. If the remote node is not present in the list of servers, it can be added.

3. Once the interface is added to PI ICU, near the top of the main PI ICU window, the interface Type should be ModbusE.. If not, use the drop-down box to change the interface Type to ModbusE.

4. Click Apply to enable the PI ICU to manage this instance of the ModbusE interface.

   

5. Make selections in the interface-specific tab that allow the user to enter values for the startup parameters that are particular to the ModbusE interface.