Configure the PI Interface for SNMP with 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 (PISNMP.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 PI SNMP Interface.

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

   

   Interface name as displayed in the ICU (optional) will have a PI- prefix to this name and it will be the display name in the services menu.

2. Click Add.

   The following message should appear:

   

   Note: Note that in this example the Host PI Data server/collective is JPERRY7910. To configure the interface to communicate with a remote PI Server, select Host PI Data server/collective item from PI ICU 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 PISNMP. If not, use the drop-down box to change the interface Type to PISNMP.

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

   

5. You configure interface-specific settings on the pisnmp tab, shown in the following figure.

   

   

   Note: Since the PI SNMP interface is a UniInt-based interface, in some cases the user will need to make appropriate selections in the UniInt page. This page allows the user to access UniInt features through the PI ICU and to make changes to the behavior of the interface.

   To set up the interface as a Windows Service, use the Service page. This page allows configuration of the interface to run as a service, as well as to start and to stop the interface service. The interface can also be run interactively from the PI ICU. To do that, select Start Interactive on the Interface menu.

   For more detailed information on how to use the above-mentioned and other PI ICU pages and selections, please refer to the PI Interface Configuration Utility user guide.

   The section below describes the selections that are available from the pisnmp page. Once selections have been made on the PI ICU GUI, press the Apply button in order for PI ICU to make these changes to the interface's startup file.