Notifications and event frames

You can create notification rules based on any generated event frames (regardless of the method used to create them). The notification rules will be triggered when the configured condition or event is detected in the system or process, and a customized notification message is sent to a user, a group, or a web service.

Notification triggers are based on event frames; the event frames may come from different sources like analyses, the Event Frame Generator (EFGen) interface or custom AF SDK applications. Relevant information for events are stored in event frames and compatible tools can retrieve such information. Information contained in elements, event frame templates, and other places may also be added to the notification content. Further, event frame annotations contain historical notification information and may also include attachments; all annotations may be viewed using AVEVA PI Vision or other client tools that support viewing annotations.

Relationship between event frames and notification rules

1. Analysis-generated event frames. For more information, see Learn about event frame generation analyses to create analyses from the Analyses tab, and Learn about trigger criteria in notification rules to create analyses from the Notification Rules tab of PI System Explorer.

2. Event Frames Generator (EFGen) interface-generated event frames. See Introduction to PI EFGen.

3. Custom AF SDK applications-generated event frames. See the AF SDK documentation.

4. Manually created event frames.