Verify communication between collective members

You can use Collective Manager to verify that members of a collective are communicating and that replication is occurring. Ideally, you check the collective from a computer that does not run a Data Archive server in the collective. However, you can check the collective from the machine running the primary server.

To verify that a collective replicates configuration changes made at the primary server to all secondary servers, you can edit a point on the primary server and verify the change at the secondary servers in the collective.

1. Click Start > All Programs > PI System > Collective Manager.

2. Under Collectives, select the collective.

   If the collective does not appear, you must enable communication between Collective Manager and the collective:

   1. Select File > Connections.

   2. Select the check box corresponding to the collective in PI Connection Manager.

      If there is no check box for the collective, add the collective:

      • Select Server > Add Server.

      • In Network Node, enter the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the primary server in the collective.

      • Click OK.

   3. Click Save to close PI Connection Manager.

3. Verify communication between collective members.

   Collective Manager shows a diagram of collective members. An icon represents each server in the collective. A green check mark on the icon indicates that the server is communicating correctly. A red X indicates that the server is not communicating correctly.

   

4. If a server icon is not communicating correctly, you can:

   • Wait a few moments. Occasionally, the status of the secondary server will update at the next attempt to synchronize.

   • Try to reinitialize that server (select Edit > Reinitialize Secondary Server).