Short of creating an API program I bet driver.exe and a small script file
can do it.
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Using+the+driver+program

Jason


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Charlie Lotridge <lotri...@mcs-sf.com>wrote:

> **
> Hi Sapna,
>
> The bad news is that there is no workflow action that will accomplish this
> for you. You could potentially try to use a SQL update (in a Direct SQL
> action) to directly update the Remedy data dictionary, which would look
> something like this:
>
> UPDATE escalation
> SET enable = 0
> WHERE name = 'The Escalation Name'
>
> But I'd recommend against this for two reasons.  First, any running AR
> servers would not notice the change until they reload their data dictionary
> caches.
>
> Second, doing this *might* cause the escalation to become invalid in that
> it would no longer match the checksum (in the safeGuard column of the
> escalation table).  I haven't checked this and don't know offhand if the
> "enable" is part of that checksum.
>
> The only way I can think of would be to write a small API program that
> performs the action. This would immediately affect the AR server on which
> it's run, but it would not propagate to any other servers until they reload
> their caches (I don't know much about server groups...would other servers
> in the group notice such changes and automatically reload?).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> -charlie
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Sapna Motwani 
> <sapana.motw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Experts,
>>
>> Please suggest is it possible to define a self-terminating escalation. I
>> need to run an escalation just once, and then it should disable itself.
>> I want to know is it possible to define an escalation which triggers some
>> workflow to mark the calling parent escalation as disable.
>>
>> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sapna
>>
>>
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