The import tool loads it into the staging forms all at once, but I have always clicked on one data type at a time, in the order that they recommend, to do the actual import from the staging forms. You do need to be patched to at least 1516 on the DSL application - ignore the application patches 5 and 6 since they only apply to the non-ITSM stand-alone DSL.
I originally installed DSL data with ITSM 7.0.02 but did not import it. I patched the app to 1516, and then loaded the 1518 data over the original set. Prior to going live, I loaded the updated data from patch 5 (110.7.0.1) and then imported it one type at a time (Version, Manufacturer, File Data, etc.), without any problem. So I actually loaded three different versions of the data into the staging forms before I ever imported it into the DSL. Since then I have uploaded (installed) and imported the data from patch 006, version 111.03.0.1 - again, importing it one table at a time just like the UpgradingVendorData.doc says to. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sokol, Brian Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Definitive Software Library Question ** OK but the documentation says to load one data set at a time while the KB seems to say to load all at the same time? Which did you do? _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Definitive Software Library Question ** If you look in the staging forms you will see that some of the data sets, like version, are very small, and others are HUGE. Import times vary accordingly. When you are updating a later version of the data you will see the same thing. The most time-consumptive (and CPU) task of all is running the command line installer that loads the newest set of data into all of the staging forms at once. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sokol, Brian Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Definitive Software Library Question ** I just installed ITSM 7.03 on our test server and I am having a problem with the DSL. I tried to followed the step in the configuration guide to import the data. It says to select only one option at a time in the order presented and click Import Data. When I select the first option, Version, and click import nothing happens or else it processes very quickly. I then tried Manufacturer and it runs briefly. When I try to import File Data my user tool seems to hang. I then checked out the knowledgebase on BMC's support site and found an entry that confused me more. Here is what it said: Step 4 on page 388 in chapter 20 of the BMC Remedy IT Service Management 7.0 Configuration Guide says to "Select an option for the type of data to import. Select only one option at a time, in the following recommended order" but selecting only one option at a time does not work. However, this does work if all options were selected at once. Your user tool may appear to "hang"/"lockup" for quite some time, but if you let it go it should respond again after some time and the import should complete then. There are reports of the user tool being "frozen" for a few hours, but eventually everything was imported if they did not disturb/terminate it. Defect SW00252123 has been submitted for this to find out if this is a documentation bug, or a product bug. So are they saying that the documentation is wrong? Should I select all the options at the same time? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks Brian Sokol Manager, Desktop Services Scholastic Inc. 557 Broadway NY, NY 10012 (212) 343-6494 http://www.Scholastic.com <http://www.Scholastic.com> __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
