We saw it once before but we really did not go into how
you start it. Let's take a look now, in more detail, at this PI
SMT -- get a quick introduction to it. You will find it under
All Programs, PI System, PI System Management
Tools. And, when you take a look at
this, you will notice that it's, it's made up of a bunch of different
applications. These are implemented as Plug-Ins.
We update these all the time so we really strongly
suggest that you go out to our, our website.
Go to our tech support website and download the latest. First thing you
should do after you have installed, especially
if you have installed off of media that's, either we shipped to you.
So, let me show you. I will go back, and, and this
is specifically, it's the PI System Management
Tools section of
our tech support website, and you will find on it the Install
Kits for download. This is assuming that you are logged in
to our, to our tech support site. As you can
see, you can find it by going to Products,
System Management, and PI SMT.
And so, once you have installed the server, go ahead
and make sure you have got the latest version of PI SMT. This
is what we are going to be using for doing different things like managing our
archives and checking into licensing,
looking at our message logs, that type of
thing. Now, and what
we will look at step by step how we go through each of these in great detail
later on. I do want to say, generally though, that
these are designed to work remotely. So almost everything
here can be done remotely, almost everything.
There are certain things that you cannot do remotely. I will give you an example.
Within the Interfaces
Section there are certain things that
really need to be configured
on the machine that is actually running the
Interface. So, if I go into Tools,
Interface Configuration Utility -- this is a utility within
SMT, launched within SMT -- it, it
looks like you are doing the right thing by
configuring this remotely -- you know, if you go out
and use like a UNC Reference or a Network Drive Reference to
where your Interface is sitting -- but, in fact,
that configuration is not going to work. Interface Configuration
Utility, or ICU, is an example
of a Utility that has to be run locally. And, in that case,
what you would do is just install SMT, download it from our
tech support site, and install SMT locally on the
machine that's running that interface. I will show you another
example. Underneath Operation, there's an option here
called Services -- PI Services.
There we go. Now this a -- let me choose my
server here -- this is a list of the current PI Services
that are running, and I can start and stop these, but I cannot
start and stop these remotely unless
I have the right credentials that allows me to
go and start and stop services on that remote machine. So, if this
were a remote machine, and I am logged in as, you know,
just Joe User here without the credentials to start
and stop services on this other machine, I could do
this all day long and it would not work. It would throw up an error message, we
would see the error message down here. So that's a brief
introduction to our System Management Tools. Obviously, we are going to look at
this in much more detail later on as we go through each Utility.
Now, some closing comments. You are
going to find that there are some things listed here that simply are not covered
in this class. For example, we have a separate Batch
Computer-based Training in which we go over all these, these
Batch Options here. And, then, one final thing.
Take a look at, for example, Archives. If I look at Archives and I do a right
click here and I see some of the things here I can do with these Archives --
some of the things that you can do here are just very obvious.
So, make it Writeable, make it Read-only.
We are not going to go in, you know, nauseating detail
through each and every Option in each and every one of these
many different Plug-ins. So, I, I hope you are not
disappointed by that. We, you know, we do not go through each and every
Option because some of them are simply self-explanatory.
In, in other cases, there are some
things that are so obscure, for example, if we go into
Tuning Parameters, Parameters --
goodness, look at the Tuning Parameters. Each and every Tuning Parameter,
you know, we could spend 15 minutes discussing them.
So, you, you would very much want us not to go through
this in tremendous detail. What we will do, however,
is explain in real good detail, as
much detail as, as will really help you get the job done,
for you to do things like set up automatic
creation of new Archives, when Archives -- when your current Archives
are full. Things like that. So, as we go
through here, we are going to pick and choose. We are going to try to stick to
the highlights and those things that are really critical to getting the job done.
But there are going to be many, many things here that you will, you will
essentially never touch these unless you are on the phone with tech
support and they are telling you, hey, go in here and do this,
this and this. And, then, at that point, of course, we will get,
get the right information to you.