Disabling/Enabling the Connector to write to OSISoft PI

The Connector can be run in read-only mode or read/write mode. This can be enabled/disabled by modifying the OSPIConnector.config file as described in the section Accessing the configuration file.

To enable or disable this mode:

Open the configuration file and locate the following Rows section within the Settings section of the configuration file
Change the isWritePermissionsDisabled setting to one of the following options:
- True - The Connector is set to read only mode
- False - The Connector is set to read and write mode
Save the changes to the file

"rows": [
      {
        "Username": "testuser",
        "Password": "testpassword",
        "AFAttributeScanRate": "10000",
        "ConnectWithCreds": true,
        "PIServerName": "lab-glopida1",
        "AFServerName": "lab-glopiaf1",
        "isWritePermissionsDisabled": false
      }
    ]

After you have saved the changes, the Connector service will need to be restarted for the changes to take effect, refer to Starting/Restarting the Connector service manually .