PI Collective Manager Overview
What is a PI Collective?
A PI Collective is two or more replicated PI Servers that collect data concurrently. Collectives are part of the High Availability environment. When the primary PI Server in a collective becomes unavailable, a secondary collective member node seemlessly continues to collect and provide data access to your PI clients.
What is the Collective Manager?
The Collective Manager is a separate PI program that is installed along with PI Server 3.4.375 (PR1) and later. You will find it typically on the Start> Program Files> PI System> Collective Manager menu.
The Collective Manager lets you create new collectives, configure existing collectives and their servers, and view the status of your collectives. You can also use the Collective Manager to force a 'failover' which means a secondary collective member takes over the role of the primary.
For more information on the Collective Manager, see the PI Collect Manager Help file (available from within the program).
The High Availability and PI Server Replication manual presents detailed options for configuring PI Server replication and guides you through configuration.