Re: How to upgrade AR system ITSM apps from 6.x to 7.x

2008-04-10 Thread Rajagopal, Ramya
Hi Rick, Thanks for the heads-up J I understood as to how we'll do the workflow migration. I'm curious to know, § For these kind of activities, do we use Migrator tool or you have any suggestions to this? § Say in scenarios, we have to move the data to the latest version, then do we have

arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread George Jungle
Hey guys, We're getting a strange issue (seemingly intermittent) with the arserverd where it just seems to 'hang'. All existing and new clients receive a TimeOut error, but yet when you check : -the processes at the o/s -the error logs -db sessions there is no evidence that there

Re: Bulk Data import in ITSM 7

2008-04-10 Thread Thivagar Sankaran
Thanks, Rick~ Can I use this in any production environment? Or will it harm my clients in future for licensing? Please clarify. Regards, Thivagar Sankaran Remedy Developer ITIL - Foundation Certified _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

How can I have ARS Remedy 6.3 Demo?

2008-04-10 Thread catia
Hi everyone, I ask you if there is the possibility to have the ARS Remedy 6.3 with a trial license to evaluate it for a possible future projects. Or initially, how can I do to have this software with related license without purchase order? Can someone help me? kind regards Caterina Carotenuto

Re: Bulk Data import in ITSM 7

2008-04-10 Thread Michiel Beijen
Look at the Dataload Ùtility which is released as Patch 9003 for ITSM 7. And yes, you can use it in a production environment. If you want you can use AIE or EIE to populate the data load forms instead of the batch file and the MS Excel sheets. http://developer.bmc.com/jiveProd/ann.jspa?annID=20

Re: How can I have ARS Remedy 6.3 Demo?

2008-04-10 Thread Shellman, David
You can download the software and get temp licenses from the support web site. The request for temp licenses may only be good for 7.x though. Dave - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wireless) - Original Message - From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Dwayne Martin
Dear List, We have two separate Remedy systems each with its own database, one a test/development system and the other a live/production system. We try to keep them in sync, but don’t always succeed. Our dba is suggesting simply replacing the data in the test database with data from the live

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Nall, Roger
We do this often in our systems. The only thing I am aware of that is an issue is server references in the different databases. We have scripts that we execute to replace embedded server references. I might also add that I am in a SQL environment. HTH, Roger A. Nall Manager, OSSNMS Remedy

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Randy Simon
Could you please share those scripts? I am having problems after I updated my DR server from the Prod DB. Embedded server references are not something I thought about. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nall,

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Rune Sorlid
Remember to stop the Email Engine before you restore the database and disable the mailbox configuration(or replace them with you test mailboxes) before you start the emailengine again.. /Rune Sorlid 2008/4/10, Randy Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you please share those scripts? I am having

RES: Escalation will not run?

2008-04-10 Thread Tadeu Augusto Dutra Pinto
Have you already tried to change your Run If Qualification for: (1=1) OR ('Status' != $NULL$) Att, Tadeu Augusto Dutra Pinto - IT Web Services ATM Cinq Technologies http://www.cinq.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
Is your database local or remote? Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr., RSP Remedy Engineer Leader Communications, Inc. Best Product, Best People, Best PriceTM An ISO 9001:2000 Certified, CMMI(r) Level 3 Rated Company From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
If you are on a unix server check the number of open files being used by the process. Maybe it has hit the max and locked up your server (why you aren't seeing anything in the logs). type in ulimit -a to tell you the limits you have pfiles process id to tell the number of open files used by

Re: Configuring Multiple AR Email Engine

2008-04-10 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi Amey, Below is a snippet I have regarding Email Engine performance tuning. It is not possible to set up multiple email engines connected to one single AR Server but you can run the email engine on another host that the AR Server. Also there are several options for tuning the email engine. The

Licensing Error Message - Production Down

2008-04-10 Thread Louis Cobuccio
Good Morning All, I hope someone has seen this before or can help me trouble shoot this issue. We lost some network connectivity in our datacenter due a software bug last night and our network team needed applied a code upgrade to the core devices. Once the network crashed we recieved the

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, When I do this, I use RRR|Chive. This allows for differences in the actual application/definitions. This sample script would sync your production server to the test server with the exception of some forms: source_server= prod source_user = Demo source_password

Re: Licensing Error Message - Production Down

2008-04-10 Thread Chapman, Gary
Has the MAC address changed on the server or, if there are 2 network cards is it now picking a different one than before. You can check this out via the licence tool by trying to add a new license. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Bulk Data import in ITSM 7

2008-04-10 Thread McClure, Don
Both of these utilities are available to users, without additional licensing (best of my knowledge). Please see previous threads on both of these items—each behaves with significant functional limitations which may or may not satisfy your needs. Don W. McClure, P.E. Data Administrator System

Re: Bulk Data import in ITSM 7

2008-04-10 Thread William Rentfrow
The AIE requires a license under the license rules from BMC The AIE license is granted to people who have a CMDB license. If you're using any of the OOB applications you need to install/license the CMDB and you own a license for both already - consequently you are good to go. Just a bit of

OT: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread T. Dee
Not sure if anyone has seen this or reported it to Remedy, but the Status Reason in Task Canceled is spelt wrong - should be Cancelled. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:

Re: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread Roger Medsker
George, I have seen this behavior in a situation we had where AR System was actually restarting. There is no indication in any of the logs that the server crashed or was manually stopped. You can detect this by having server side SQL logging on when this occurs. If you see lots of SQL

Re: Database cursor sharing

2008-04-10 Thread William Rentfrow
Both systems were set to force in the init.ora file to answer the original question. William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom [EMAIL PROTECTED] O 952-432-0227 C 701-306-6157 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Tony

Re: Open Ticket from AL

2008-04-10 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Andy, I really wish there was a way to tell what version of the ARS object(s) the User tool/Mid-Tier is using. ( Like even showing the Last Modified Date for the form would be helpful.) I suspect that the reason your first test failed is that the client did not in fact have the most recent

Re: Licensing Error Message - Production Down

2008-04-10 Thread Louis Cobuccio
Thanks J.T. and Gary. I am checking with the server team. I did just try to add a new license and I do get a different Host ID. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.T. Shyman Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008

RES: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread Tadeu Augusto Dutra Pinto
one question how many records does your AR System Email Messages has??? De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) em nome de Roger Medsker Enviada: qui 10/4/2008 11:45 Para: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Assunto: Re: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Scott Parrish
Actually, there are two accepted spellings of the word Cancelled and either Canceled or Cancelled is appropriate. v. can.celed also can.celled, can.cel.ing also can.cel.ling, can.cels also can.cels Scott Parrish IT Prophets, LLC (770) 653-5203 www.itprophets.com -Original Message-

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread LJ Longwing
If I'm not mistaken, both spellings are correct, one is the British version, the other the American English... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Dee Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:44 AM To:

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Randy Simon
It can be spelled both ways. Canceled is the more American way. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Dee Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:44 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Nall, Roger
Here you go: exec sp_changedbowner 'sa' exec sp_dropuser 'ARAdmin' exec sp_changedbowner 'ARAdmin' exec sp_defaultdb 'ARAdmin', 'ARSystem' update field_table set tfServer = '@' update actlink_open set serverName = '@' update char_menu_query set server = '@' update char_menu_sql set server = '@'

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread T. Dee
Good point. Remedy should pick one spelling and stick with it. Change and Incident has it spelt as Cancelled. Ty On 4/10/08, Scott Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, there are two accepted spellings of the word Cancelled and either Canceled or Cancelled is appropriate. v.

Form sql view not found, again

2008-04-10 Thread Dwayne Martin
Dear List, I am suffering a recurrence of a problem I sent in back in February. I have a form with no sql view. If I change the db name of a field I get “Creation of one of the SQL views for the form failed within the SQL database. Operation completed successfully, but the SQL view is not in

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
That's always bugged me, as has the following: Canceled vs. Cancelled Requestor vs. Requester Implementor vs. Implementer (I see that Implementor isn't a word, but, then, why is Requestor? To me, the -or sounds correct). I favor the Cancelled myself, and I'm not British. I've always favored

Re: Licensing Error Message - Production Down

2008-04-10 Thread Louis Cobuccio
J.T. Gary, I guess our server team enabled NIC Teaming. Once this was disabled we restarted the services and the system came back clean. Thank you both very much! I owe you both a drink if you are ever up in Boston! Lou -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Replacing test data with live

2008-04-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That isn't complete enough for ITSM 7.0 though. There are some tables (I don't have a complete list off the top of my head) that contain server references too. For example, one is the CAI Application Registry form which has the server name for each app installed. What I've done is develop a

Error log display question....

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Copits
We're new to installing the ITSM software and notice that there are a ton of log files that are created. Is there any type of utility - other than notepad - that can make reading the logs easier or a little more meaningful rather than having to wade through crowded files for that gem of

DSL Import

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Gillock
Listers, When we did our application installs we didn't want, and didn't think we'd need the DSL. But now we've changed our minds and would like to install it. According to the ITSM install guide, if you uncheck it during the app installs, it still installs the workflow, just

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread J.T. Shyman
pun Different? Oh, you are. /pun :) --- J.T. Shyman -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Opela (Corporate) Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:24 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7 - Task -

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread T. Dee
:-) On 4/10/08, J.T. Shyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pun Different? Oh, you are. /pun :) --- J.T. Shyman -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Opela (Corporate) Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008

Re: Error log display question....

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Gillock
Each application install has a logs folder that has HTML output. Ex: C:\Program Files\AR System Applications\server\BMC Atrium CMDB\Logs\BMCAtriumCMDB.html They are pretty easy to read. HTH, Brian From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Connecting to Remedy Server Throught Java API

2008-04-10 Thread sriram pm
Hi List, I am trying to connect to the Remedy Server through Java API. I get an Error 90 Saying RPC Bind Failure.Authentication Error. Can any one let me know what is the reason for this error? I tried checking the login Id it works fine. Please help. Sriram

Re: Connecting to Remedy Server Throught Java API

2008-04-10 Thread LJ Longwing
What does your connection string look like? _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sriram pm Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Connecting to Remedy Server Throught Java API ** Hi List, I am

Re: Connecting to Remedy Server Throught Java API

2008-04-10 Thread sriram pm
Below the the connection string... ARSystemUser(Login id, Password,English,Server Name,int port) On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM, LJ Longwing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** What does your connection string look like? -- *From:* Action Request System discussion

Re: Form sql view not found, again SOLVED AGAIN

2008-04-10 Thread Dwayne Martin
Once again, Doug Mueller came thru with the answer. It was a variation on the previous problem, only this time it was a Diary field instead of a Character. When I did: select fieldId, isLong from field_diary where schemaId = 426 I got: FIELDID: 536870919, ISLONG: 1. Fortunately, we no longer

Re: How can I have ARS Remedy 6.3 Demo?

2008-04-10 Thread Easter, David
You can request a 6.3 trial license through the website. However, since 6.3 is nearing the end of its support lifecycle, I would recommend that you evaluate AR System 7.1.00 instead - especially if you're evaluating this for future projects. You will need a Support ID to download the software

Re: Connecting to Remedy Server Throught Java API

2008-04-10 Thread LJ Longwing
Is your server localized to English? If not you may want to include a blank string instead of English, see if that helps _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sriram pm Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:38 AM To:

ARDBC Plugin crashing ARPLugin service after first search

2008-04-10 Thread arthurj
Hi!, We have a Vendor form from where if a login other than aradmin is used, the second search on that form crashes the ARPLugin service. This is bizarre:confused:. Has anyone come across this kind of a problem? aradmin is the User for the ARS installation. Any pointers? Please help. Thanks, AJ

ARDBC PLugin crashes ARPlugin service

2008-04-10 Thread arthurj
Hi!, We have a Vendor form from where if a login is used which is other than the user that the ARS Installation runs on, the second search on that form crashes the ARPLugin service. This is bizarre. Has anyone come across this kind of a problem? Any pointers? Please help. Thanks, AJ --

ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread arthurj
Hi!, We have a Vendor form from where if a login is used which is other than the user that the ARS Installation runs on, the second search on that form crashes the ARPLugin service. This is bizarre. Has anyone come across this kind of a problem? Any pointers? Please help. Thanks, AJ --

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Axton
What platform are you using? Axton On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, arthurj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!, We have a Vendor form from where if a login is used which is other than the user that the ARS Installation runs on, the second search on that form crashes the ARPLugin service. This

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Arthur Johnson
ARS6.3 p 23 on Solaris 10 with users using User 5.1.2 Thanks, Arthur On 4/10/08, Axton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What platform are you using? Axton On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, arthurj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!, We have a Vendor form from where if a login is used which is other

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Jason Miller
My question exactly... I have seen this on RH Linux with ARS 6.3 (earlier patches, say p3-11 or so). We were doing LDAP searches against AD. I found that it help using the global catalog. Just put the port number (3268) in your Vendor Form table name field. Unfortunately the CG did not return

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Axton
Generate a core file and see what the stack is when it crashes or attach a debugger to the arplugin process and catch the signal (11, I'm assuming). Do you have the source for the plugin? If you have the source, you will actually be able to fix the problem. man dbx read on the following dbx

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Dwayne Martin
It is time to trash our whole spelling system and start over from scratch, with each letter representing one phoneme. (Excuse me for using the ARSList to push one of my many totally hopeless causes.) Dwayne Martin James Madison University Original message Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008

OT:RE: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread William Rentfrow
If this plan ever comes to fruition you can expect the teenagers of the day to immediately destroy it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwayne Martin Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:18 PM To:

Re: DSL Import

2008-04-10 Thread strauss
You can run any of the DSL DATA patches (don't even THINK of running any of the DSL application patches) and they will load the latest data set into your staging forms. Then you can import the data one set at a time from the DSL import console (PDL:ESIDImportConsole). The DSL DATA Patch 005

RESOLVED: Mid-Tier help

2008-04-10 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
Update: I got it working by doing the following: Uninstall MT, Uninstall Tomcat. Download tomcat 5.5. from apache.org. Install tomcat 5.5 manually Install mid-tier (without tomcat) Reboot Works like a charm. Something about remedy installing tomcat wasn't working.

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Arthur Johnson
From the plugin logs I was able to pinpoint the error. I am using libxml2 to parse the xml to send to the external service and also to parse the response from the external service and expose as rows in ARS. I have attached the code which is in question. When the second search is done the logs

Re: ARDBC Plugin crashes AR Plugin service

2008-04-10 Thread Axton
Best bet is to hook a debugger up to it. The checks dbx provides will tell you what the program is doing that it shouldn't be doing. Axton Grams On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Arthur Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** From the plugin logs I was able to pinpoint the error. I am using

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Tim Widowfield
I thought by now some joker would have said, Spelt is spelled wrong. --Tim - Original Message From: Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:34:06 PM Subject: Re: [ARSLIST] ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong) ** u may B ryt. I

Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong)

2008-04-10 Thread Gidd
Not in Kanada -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Widowfield Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7 - Task - Status Reason (Spelt Wrong) I thought by now

Application-Delete-Entry on the Alert List

2008-04-10 Thread TL
Hi all, I am using Remedy Alert for user notifications and I'm opening the Alert List on the web. I have added a delete button on the Alert List form so my users can delete entries as they deem necessary. The workflow I'm using is an Active Link that executes on this button and my If Action has

Re: date field and SQL

2008-04-10 Thread Moore, Christopher Allen
So is there a way to convert 2454436 to dd/mm/? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:59 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: date field and

Re: date field and SQL

2008-04-10 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
2440588 = days from Jan 1, 4713 BC to Jan 1, 1970 So it would be something like convert (varchar(10),dateadd(day, Invoicemonth-2440587, '1 January 1970'), 101) 'Invoice Month 1' From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: RESOLVED: Mid-Tier help

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Gillock
A side note: I had a similar issue trying to get Tomcat to install during the MT install and it turned out that Tomcat didn't like that my TEMP folder has spaces in it. I changed my TEMP to c:\temp and it worked fine. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: arserverd 'hangs' (AR 7.0.1 patch 5 - Sol 10 - Ora 10g2)

2008-04-10 Thread George Jungle
Thanks for all the replies guys. I've answered some of your questions 1. Gary Opela (Corporate) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your database local or remote? Local 2. Garrison, Sean (Norcross) [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are on a unix server check the number of open files being used by the process.

Importing an incident record with attachment in Remedy 6.3

2008-04-10 Thread Sanjana AGARWAL
Hello All, I want to import an incident and Change Requests records having attachments using the import tool provided by Remedy. However I don't know the path where I have to store the attachment fields and to which I have to set the Attachment 1 field. It's giving me error: Incorrect field