Adding AVEVA PI Server as a Replication Server

If you want to connect from AVEVA Historian to AVEVA PI Server as a next-tier server, follow these steps:

1. Prepare your PI Server for Receiving Replication Data.

2. Configure Replication to AVEVA PI Server.

If you are already using the PI Connector for AVEVA Historian and you want to migrate to using AVEVA Historian replication instead, to avoid data gaps in the PI system you should leave the PI Connector running while configuring replication to AVEVA PI Server.

Follow these steps to migrate from using the PI Connector to using AVEVA Historian replication to PI Server:

3. Ensure the PI Connector for AVEVA Historian is running.

4. Prepare your PI Server for Receiving Replication Data.

5. Configure Replication to AVEVA PI Server.

6. Configure all required tags for replication. See Configuring Tags to Be Replicated for more details.

   Note: The Destination Tag Name for each replicated tag must match the existing tag name used by the PI Connector.

7. Verify that all tags are replicating correctly.

8. Shut down the PI Connector for AVEVA Historian.