Use the AF Link tool for migration to AF

The AF Link tool enables you to perform the following migrations:

• PI Batch Database and PI Batch Subsystem data to PI Event Frames

  You can choose to migrate your batch data to event frames. Event frames help you capture, compare, and analyze important processes or business events over a repeatable time period. They can track many kinds of events, including batches. Event frames provide wider search options and greater flexibility in composition than batches.

  After migration, there is no synchronization between the Batch Database and AF; the Batch Database becomes read only, and batch interfaces, version 4.0, automatically switch to writing to event frames.

• Module Database (MDB) to AF

  After installation or upgrade to PI Server 2010 or later, migration occurs automatically unless you choose not to enable MDB during setup. To enable MDB after installation, you must manually initiate a migration.

  Data Archive maintains a two-way synchronization between MDB and AF. Changes made in MDB are automatically reflected in AF, and changes made in AF are automatically reflected in MDB.