Hello Team,
Greetings for the day!
Could some one suggest the way or .net C# code snippet to send an email directly without creating the analysis using AFSDK. I know I could do it using SMTP server detail provided in my C# code.
However, I would like to use delivery channel and contacts defined in PI AF database.
Note: We are using PI Notification 2016
Please suggest. Thanks in Advance.
Thanks & Regards,
Paresh
You want to trigger without an event frame generating analysis? Or without creating an AFEventFrame object at all?
You can trigger a notification by creating AFEventFrames that match the criteria of the notification rule with the primary referenced element. I described that in a blog post here.
If you mean without creating an AFEventFrame object, then that's not supported.
Hi Mike,
Sorry to comment on an old thread but it is relevant to something I am trying to do. I am looking into deploying notifications. I was just wondering about your comment:
If you mean without creating an AFEventFrame object, then that's not supported.
We want to monitor an alarm tag/attribute for when it changes value. When it changes value, send out a notification with the value of the tag. As this is an alarm tag/attribute it will only contain text so we will not want to generate an EventFrame, it will not have an end time either. The analysis will be the tag receiving new input. It will be continually monitoring the tag. Is this not possible? Must we create an EF for every change?
Kind Regards,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
The PI Notifications Service monitors the AF Server for any Event Frame changes (new event frame, closing event frame, etc...) and fires Notifications based on these changes. There is no way around this functionality.
If you are simply monitoring a single alarm tag, and don't plan to scale this idea, you create a very simple AF SDK application (or script) to do this.
Hope this helps,
Seb
Hi Seb,
Thanks for the fast response. OK we will look into that.
Kind Regards,
Thomas
Hi Paresh,
Do you simply want to retrieve the delivery end points from AF and create your own Notification service? Notifications (2016 R2 or later) are only triggered off of Event Frames.
You can find information on how to programmatically retrieve AF Contacts and Delivery End Points here: https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-AF-SDK/Html/T_OSIsoft_AF_Notification_AFNotificationContactTemplate.htm
Out of curiosity, why don't you want to use the Analysis Service and Event Frames as your triggering mechanism?
Thanks,
Seb