Carey, I'm actually working on a VERY SIMPLE program that could do just what your looking for, the API parsing of a packing list is absurdly easy, so if you wanted with a very small modification to my program, you could specify packing list on server 1, and export the objects from server2, and then import that def file just created into server3...I would say it took me less than 5 hours to create the parsing of the PL on one server, to export from a second, and then import to a third would be a trivial modification...of course this work is being done to automate/ease migration of release related work.
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:41 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: For anyone using the aradmin.exe command Scott, Actually... let me see if you can try something for me and see if we can get that to work... <warning> This is a sore topic for me. I have tried to get BMC to understand how dumb I think this feature is, but they appear to not share my concern for it. </warning> In the admin tool open the packing list of interest. Go to the "Packing List" menu and select "Generate XML". You need to use this "XML" file as the input to the admin tool command line. NOT an ARS def file (in xml format). [ The def file does not work, but it is what most people think should work. Most people do not ever look at the "Packing List" menu because it only shows up when you open a packing list , and the terminology is just "XML file" instead of the "special file generated from the menu of the packing list object via the admin tool".] My two cents.... I should be able to mention the NAME of the packing list and not have any cached copy of it before the command line is called. And in my dream world... I can use a packlist as defined on a different ARS server too. ( Yes that means that I may need to pass in two usersnames and passwords, but I am ok with that. ) So ... Picture this... <dreaming> Create a packing list on your Dev server. >From the command line export those objects from Production. Import them to your Test server. Then import your Dev objects (presumably different from Production) to your Test server. You now have a way to maintain one list, on dev, of objects that are in a "release" and a way to use that list to normalize your Test server. </dreaming> -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Scott Philben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We found out an interesting bit of information yesterday about the command line uasge of the aradmin.exe command. On page 557 of the 6.3 Advanced book Remedy claims the following: > > > To parse an XML packing list, and export all the objects defined in that packing list, use the following command format: > > aradmin -u <user_name> [-p <password>] -x <server_name> -e > <target_file> -l <packing_list.xml> > > > Well, when we tried to use that command to dump out a packing list worth of stuff nothing seemed to happen. So I opened an Incident with BMC and come to find out that the XML packing list thing does not appear to work in any environment that they can find. I think this is kind of odd since I believe that this option has been available since at least 5.1.2. I might be wrong. > > So anyway, don't try to dump stuff out of your system via an XML packing list file (not that you wanted to anyway since I can't find any reference of anyone else in history having the same problem and posting about it on the interwebs). > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
