1、Streamlining AVEVA PI System O&M by Centralizing PI Message LogsPresented by Shawn McNabbWednesday April 9,2025INTERNAL 3About Pacific Gas and Electric Company Incorporated in California in 1905 Headquarters in Oakland,California Approximately 28,000 employees 106,681 Circuit miles of Electric Distr
2、ibution 18,466 Circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines 42,141 miles of natural gas distribution pipelines 6,438 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines 5.5 million electric customer accounts 4.5 million natural gas customer accounts4 INTERNAL Started with 2 collectives for all busines
3、ses.Split into 7 collectives each with their own set of PI servers.Largest system now at 10+million tags hosted on 4 Data Archive Servers.Currently consolidating logs from 34 PI Servers Overall footprint spans over 150 PI Servers Management and access to logs across multiple networks became overly t
4、ime consumingThe PI System at PG&E5 INTERNALEnhanced monitoring capabilities Streamlined access to the PI Message LogsPattern recognition,statistics,predictionAutomated alerts and notificationsSimplify log collection and sharingExtensive filtering and tracing capabilitiesCredential tracking across P
5、I System infrastructureObserve issues starting to build and be proactive rather than reactive.Facilitates compliance and security effortsLogs can be kept longer and can be reviewed even if the source server is unresponsiveBenefitsLog Management and Observability PlatformPI Message Log Consolidation
6、Benefits6 INTERNAL Platform managed forwarder installed on each server Custom PowerShell script was created to extract the messages and format them for shipping.Checkpoint file is used to allow restarts.Prefilters can be used at the source for low bandwidth connections or less critical servers.KEY D