17. A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions facilitating remotely configuring a data access server in a system including a configuration editor and a configurable process control data access server and a server agent located remotely from the configuration editor on a computing node, the server agent being capable of identifying process control data access servers currently residing on the computing node, the computer-executable instructions facilitating performing the steps of: receiving, by the configuration editor from the server agent, a notification regarding data access servers presently residing on the computing node, including the configurable process control data access server; obtaining, by the configuration editor after receiving the notification, configuration information relating to the configurable process control data access server, the configuration information including: a configuration data set comprising data access server parameter values, and a rules data set comprising rules that guide processing the configuration data set; and providing access, by the configuration editor, to the configuration data set in accordance with the rules of the rules data set.
17. A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions facilitating remotely configuring a data access server in a system including a configuration editor and a configurable process control data access server and a server agent located remotely from the configuration editor on a computing node, the server agent being capable of identifying process control data access servers currently residing on the computing node, the computer-executable instructions facilitating performing the steps of: receiving, by the configuration editor from the server agent, a notification regarding data access servers presently residing on the computing node, including the configurable process control data access server; obtaining, by the configuration editor after receiving the notification, configuration information relating to the configurable process control data access server, the configuration information including: a configuration data set comprising data access server parameter values, and a rules data set comprising rules that guide processing the configuration data set; and providing access, by the configuration editor, to the configuration data set in accordance with the rules of the rules data set. 19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17 further comprising computer-executable instructions facilitating performing the step of: modifying, by the configuration editor, the configuration information relating to the configurable process control data access server.