Source PI Server Failover

Enable PItoPI Failover

This check box allows the configuration of the failover. You must select this checkbox to enable the other items on this tab. Note that having this check makes items 2 and 3 required since they are in yellow.

Source Server Interface Status Utility Tag

This is the name of the status tag configured on the source server defined in the command line parameter /SRC_HOST=hostname. Select the Browse button (...) to invoke the Tag Search utility to browse for this tag. (/SSU1= tagname)

Secondary Source Server Node Name

This is the name of the second source node from which to retrieve data. This must be a PI 3.x PI Data Archive node because the port number of 5450 will be appended to the end of this name when it is saved in the batch file. (command line parameter /SEC_SRC=nodename:5450)

Secondary Source Int Status Utility Tag

This is the name of the status tag configured on the source server defined in the command line parameter /SEC_SRC=hostname. Select the Browse button to invoke the Tag Search utility to browse for this tag. (/SSU2= tagname)

Number of connection attempts to source server

This parameter is used to specify the number of times to try connecting to source server if connection fails the first time. It can be used to restrict failover from occurring until after a certain number of attempts made to connect to the primary server have failed. The default number of attempts is 1. (command line parameter /NT=x)

Enable failover status logging

This check box enables failover status logging. When selecting this, the user can enter a Receiving Server Status Tag. This entered in this text box is the failover status tag configured on receiving server. Select the Browse button to invoke the Tag Search utility to browse for this tag. (command line parameter /FST=tagname)