1. A distributed configuration utility facilitating remote configuration of process control data access servers, the distributed configuration utility comprising: a configuration editor located at a control console; a configuration storage comprising descriptions of present server configurations; a rules database for storing a set of configuration rules associated with each data access server configurable via the configuration utility, wherein the set of configuration rules provide a guide to the information within the configuration storage specifying a configuration for ones of the process control data access servers; and a server agent, located on a computing node remote from the control console and containing a configurable process control data access server, the server agent including executable procedures for notifying the configuration editor of the existence of the configurable process control data access server and thereby facilitating establishing a configuration interface between the configuration editor and the configurable process control data access server.