Re: Remedy 8.1 SP2 - Hanging on Startup

2015-01-20 Thread Walters, Mark
The drop table statements show threads shutting down and cleaning up temporary 
tables.  The number at the end of the name is the thread ID so I suspect this 
is the preload threads finishing work rather than a thread crashing – you’re 
not seeing any stack traces in the arerror.log re you?

It looks a lot like some sort of metadata corruption so you may be able to get 
a hint of what the issue is with the –t startup option. Copy the arserver.exe 
line from armonitor.cfg and run it at the command line but insert –t after the 
arserver.exe – this will create a arstartup_PID.log and cause some validation 
of the metadata to be run and logged.  Once you have that you’re likely to need 
a support case with BMC to get some further insight as to where it is getting 
stuck.

Mark

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of BradRemedy
Sent: 20 January 2015 06:23
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Remedy 8.1 SP2 - Hanging on Startup

**
Hi Jason

I did get SQL profiler running and checked what was being called by remedy and 
found the following entries:

SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0int5212  182  2015-01-20 07:38:58.553
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0int8000  166  2015-01-20 07:38:58.553
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0int7664  178  2015-01-20 07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0float5212   182  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0float8000   166  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0float7664   178  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0char5212182  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0char8000166  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0char7664178  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0decimal5212  182  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0decimal8000  166  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
Audit Logout  182  2015-01-20 07:38:58.180
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0decimal7664  178  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.560
Audit Logout  166  2015-01-20 07:38:57.217
Audit Logout  178  2015-01-20 07:38:58.020
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0int7732  171  2015-01-20 07:38:58.563
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0float7732   171  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.567
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0char7732171  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.570
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0decimal7732  171  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.570
Audit Logout  171  2015-01-20 07:38:57.280
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0int6804  183  2015-01-20 07:38:58.627
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0float6804   183  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.627
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0char6804183  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.627
SQL:BatchStarting DROP TABLE AR0decimal6804  183  2015-01-20 
07:38:58.633


Not sure what the system is trying to do - should i leave it and see ?

I have also logged this with BMC Software to see if they have any ideas.

As always, thanks for the suggestions and help guys - it is really appreciated. 
I am hoping my company approves my proposal to attend the BMC Engage event this 
year so that I can meet you guys and thank you in person.

Cheers
Brad

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Jason Miller 
jason.mil...@gmail.commailto:jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote:
**

I would definitely run a trace on the db as LJ mentioned to see what if any 
activity is going on. You can also turn on a startup log by adding a switch in 
you armonitor.cfg/config file. I can't think of it off the top of my head but 
it has been mentioned on the list before and should be on 
docs.bmc.comhttp://docs.bmc.com.

Wait... I think it might be  -i.  It gets added to the line that actually 
starts arserver.

Jason
On Jan 19, 2015 8:28 PM, BradRemedy 
bradrem...@gmail.commailto:bradrem...@gmail.com wrote:
**
Hi,

I checked in the ar.cfg file and the Record-Object-Relationship is set to 
F. As a test I restarted the entire server yet the service still says 
Starting with the memory usage for the arserver.exe process sitting at 390mb. 
It will stay like this for hours and wont start.

There is nothing in the arerror log file besides the remedy version information 
and the startup log file has the same entries as per my original post.

The last line is still Mon Jan 19 2015 13:40:05.7000 Startup TID: 
004696 Loading field mapping information

Thanks in Advance
Brad

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Harshad Wagh 
harshad.w...@vyomlabs.commailto:harshad.w...@vyomlabs.com wrote:
**
Hi Brad,

I wonder if there is Record Object Relationship is set to true in under 
Configuration tab of Server Information tab then Remedy Application Service 
takes longer time to start.
you can check this in 

Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Saraswat, Praveen
Hi All,



I have below requirement from one of the Customer. Wanted to check if anyone 
has done this before for such volume.



Requirement - Customer wants to send SMS to the stakeholders for any 
escalations on the tickets generated from Alarm (Fault Management System).

Volume of tickets to be generated from Alarms - 3.5 million per day on day 1. 
Eventually the count to increase to 9.5 million per day.

For any given ticket,2 to 3 SMS to flow from the system as part of the 
escalation matrix.

Is remedy system the right place to handle SMS flow of this volume?



I am in disagreement to use the Remedy System as SMS dispatcher for such a 
large volume of tickets.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestions?



Regards,

Praveen





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Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Rick Cook
Great points, Janie.  I don't know that Remedy would scale to processing 5
million Incidents a day, unless the DB was kept VERY well trimmed and
tuned.  If they processed through some very tiny form, then maybe.  But the
issue is why are there 3-9 million alarms a day going INTO the system.  No
one will ever actually process those, so deal with the duplicates and
non-actionable items some other way, and specifically whitelist those you
want/need to actually be tracked in an Incident.

Rick Cook

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Janie Sprenger jrsrem...@gmail.com wrote:

 **
 Are you in disagreement because you don't think Remedy can handle the
 volume or the volume won't be appropriately handled by personnel once it's
 in Remedy?
 Some additional things to think about are:
 By ticket, do you mean Incident or Change Request or Task or Work Order or
 something custom, by escalations do you mean related transaction records?
 Are all of the tickets that get generated supposed to end up being handled
 manually by people?
 Is there more processing and automation that occurs once the ticket is
 generated in Remedy?
 Is the process flow escalation intended to be more than a historical audit
 record of the event?

 Obviously, the volume is really high and it's hard to think of any
 companies that can manually handle that kind of volume on a daily basis so
 that means there is more to the story.
 IMO, Here's the thing to keep in mind, the customer is trying to solve a
 problem.  They are attempting to use Remedy to solve that problem, which is
 good so you don't want to deter from them from what Remedy can and should
 be doing.  But you also need to help to find a solution for the actual
 issue at hand because if they really have 3.5 to 9.5 million daily faults
 occurring in their environment, then they really do have a problem they
 have to sort out. Perhaps it's a matter of getting a handle on what is
 faulting, maybe SMS or FMS is or isn't configured correctly, maybe the
 faults are warnings and some are faults that need to be addressed.  Maybe
 there is something to be aware of other than just processing millions of
 individual tickets into a 1 to 1 mapping between the fault and the ticket.

 My suggestion is to find out what the end goal is for the data that goes
 into Remedy, regardless of the volume and see where that takes you with
 whether or not Remedy can assist with solving the customer's problem.

 HTH,
 Janie

 On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Saraswat, Praveen psaras...@columnit.com
  wrote:

 **

 Hi All,



 I have below requirement from one of the Customer. Wanted to check if
 anyone has done this before for such volume.



 Requirement – Customer wants to send SMS to the stakeholders for any
 escalations on the tickets generated from Alarm (Fault Management System).

 Volume of tickets to be generated from Alarms – 3.5 million per day on
 day 1. Eventually the count to increase to 9.5 million per day.

 For any given ticket,2 to 3 SMS to flow from the system as part of the
 escalation matrix.

 Is remedy system the right place to handle SMS flow of this volume?



 I am in disagreement to use the Remedy System as SMS dispatcher for such
 a large volume of tickets.

 What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestions?



 Regards,

 Praveen








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Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Janie Sprenger
Are you in disagreement because you don't think Remedy can handle the
volume or the volume won't be appropriately handled by personnel once it's
in Remedy?
Some additional things to think about are:
By ticket, do you mean Incident or Change Request or Task or Work Order or
something custom, by escalations do you mean related transaction records?
Are all of the tickets that get generated supposed to end up being handled
manually by people?
Is there more processing and automation that occurs once the ticket is
generated in Remedy?
Is the process flow escalation intended to be more than a historical audit
record of the event?

Obviously, the volume is really high and it's hard to think of any
companies that can manually handle that kind of volume on a daily basis so
that means there is more to the story.
IMO, Here's the thing to keep in mind, the customer is trying to solve a
problem.  They are attempting to use Remedy to solve that problem, which is
good so you don't want to deter from them from what Remedy can and should
be doing.  But you also need to help to find a solution for the actual
issue at hand because if they really have 3.5 to 9.5 million daily faults
occurring in their environment, then they really do have a problem they
have to sort out. Perhaps it's a matter of getting a handle on what is
faulting, maybe SMS or FMS is or isn't configured correctly, maybe the
faults are warnings and some are faults that need to be addressed.  Maybe
there is something to be aware of other than just processing millions of
individual tickets into a 1 to 1 mapping between the fault and the ticket.

My suggestion is to find out what the end goal is for the data that goes
into Remedy, regardless of the volume and see where that takes you with
whether or not Remedy can assist with solving the customer's problem.

HTH,
Janie

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Saraswat, Praveen psaras...@columnit.com
wrote:

 **

 Hi All,



 I have below requirement from one of the Customer. Wanted to check if
 anyone has done this before for such volume.



 Requirement – Customer wants to send SMS to the stakeholders for any
 escalations on the tickets generated from Alarm (Fault Management System).

 Volume of tickets to be generated from Alarms – 3.5 million per day on day
 1. Eventually the count to increase to 9.5 million per day.

 For any given ticket,2 to 3 SMS to flow from the system as part of the
 escalation matrix.

 Is remedy system the right place to handle SMS flow of this volume?



 I am in disagreement to use the Remedy System as SMS dispatcher for such a
 large volume of tickets.

 What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestions?



 Regards,

 Praveen








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2015-01-20 Thread Gentry, Elmer L CTR USSOCOM HQ
Job Title: Remedy Solutions Architect/Developer

THIS IS A FULL TIME JOB WITH BENEFITS, MUST BE ONSITE.



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The Remedy Architect/Developer will participate in usability and

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* BMC  Certified Administrator: BMC Remedy IT Service Management

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Remedy Application Developer

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Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread LJ LongWing
Praveen,
I'm sure you have already done the math9.5M/day is roughly 110/sec if
averaged out, which it of course wouldn't be.  This sort of volume would be
large just to store that many records per day, let alone 'process' them,
but Remedy is scalable, and is a workflow engine, so yes, an infrastructure
COULD be setup to handle itI'm not sure if Remedy would be doing more
than being a DB repository and lookup location at that point, so it might
make sense to bypass Remedy altogether and just write a Java Daemon or
something that did direct DB lookups for the data you need and called the
external program that's actually doing the paging...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Saraswat, Praveen psaras...@columnit.com
wrote:

 **

 Hi Janie,



 Customer has one of worlds largest passive support for Telcos due to which
 the volume of alarms from different EMSs is high. Actual need was to notify
 the stakeholders through SMS before it qualified to be converted to an
 Incident and follow a set escalation matrix in case Alarm is not able to
 clear itself from EMS systems.

 You are right in your understanding that Customer is trying to solve a
 problem which the FMS(Alarm System) owner has declined to do due to various
 reasons.



 There is a lot of processing done to get appropriate information for SMS
 ,before it goes from Remedy System to the SMS gateway.



 Yes, the volume of the Alarms to be converted to Incidents( only incidents
 will be created from Alarms) is high and the Customer is least bothered
 about handling of these tickets. He just wants to trigger Escalation(SLA
 breach) SMS if the Alarm is not automatically cleared.



 In addition to the above type of tickets. Remedy system is supposed to
 handle approx 70k tickets per day , which will be assigned to the
 appropriate groups and it needs to be worked upon by ground staff using a
 Mobile App. These tickets(Incidents/Change/Problem) also have their own
 processing and automation before it hits the database.SMS flows for these
 type of tickets as well.



 We have already implemented this for 70k tickets per day, but the new
 volume of Alarms makes me little hesitant to commit to the Customer. Also I
 don’t want to make the Remedy System as a SMS dispatcher tool instead of
 its core functionalities of ticket tracking and service management.



 I really appreciate your thoughts and opinion. Thanks



 Regards,

 Praveen



 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
 arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Janie Sprenger
 *Sent:* 20 January 2015 22:24
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Re: Need Suggestion



 **

 Are you in disagreement because you don't think Remedy can handle the
 volume or the volume won't be appropriately handled by personnel once it's
 in Remedy?

 Some additional things to think about are:

 By ticket, do you mean Incident or Change Request or Task or Work Order or
 something custom, by escalations do you mean related transaction records?

 Are all of the tickets that get generated supposed to end up being handled
 manually by people?

 Is there more processing and automation that occurs once the ticket is
 generated in Remedy?

 Is the process flow escalation intended to be more than a historical audit
 record of the event?



 Obviously, the volume is really high and it's hard to think of any
 companies that can manually handle that kind of volume on a daily basis so
 that means there is more to the story.

 IMO, Here's the thing to keep in mind, the customer is trying to solve a
 problem.  They are attempting to use Remedy to solve that problem, which is
 good so you don't want to deter from them from what Remedy can and should
 be doing.  But you also need to help to find a solution for the actual
 issue at hand because if they really have 3.5 to 9.5 million daily faults
 occurring in their environment, then they really do have a problem they
 have to sort out. Perhaps it's a matter of getting a handle on what is
 faulting, maybe SMS or FMS is or isn't configured correctly, maybe the
 faults are warnings and some are faults that need to be addressed.  Maybe
 there is something to be aware of other than just processing millions of
 individual tickets into a 1 to 1 mapping between the fault and the ticket.



 My suggestion is to find out what the end goal is for the data that goes
 into Remedy, regardless of the volume and see where that takes you with
 whether or not Remedy can assist with solving the customer's problem.



 HTH,

 Janie



 On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Saraswat, Praveen psaras...@columnit.com
 wrote:

 **

 Hi All,



 I have below requirement from one of the Customer. Wanted to check if
 anyone has done this before for such volume.



 Requirement – Customer wants to send SMS to the stakeholders for any
 escalations on the tickets generated from Alarm (Fault Management System).

 Volume of tickets to be generated from Alarms – 3.5 million per day on day
 1. Eventually 

Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Most organizations that I’ve worked in where Incidents are created via a 
monitoring tool do that escalation on the monitoring tool’s side.  That’s 
really where you want to look.  Leave the Incidents for things that actually 
require human intervention.  I would propose getting the monitoring team to do 
two things:

1)  Group alarms into logical relationships to weed out unnecessary alarms 
(e.g. if a switch that has ten servers connected to it is down, you don’t get 
11 Incidents.)

2)  Create a prioritization structure so that Incidents are only created 
when either 1) major failures are reported via monitoring, or 2) medium alarms 
are not resolved in a timely manner and must be looked at by a person.

Additionally, there should be some Problem Management in place to address the 
issues causing these alarms.  That way there can be a representation in Remedy 
as a Problem Investigation or Known Error, yet you don’t need to store each and 
every example of a minor alarm as an entire record in Remedy.

Thanks,

Shawn Pierson
Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Saraswat, Praveen
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:09 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Need Suggestion

**
Hi Janie,

Customer has one of worlds largest passive support for Telcos due to which the 
volume of alarms from different EMSs is high. Actual need was to notify the 
stakeholders through SMS before it qualified to be converted to an Incident and 
follow a set escalation matrix in case Alarm is not able to clear itself from 
EMS systems.
You are right in your understanding that Customer is trying to solve a problem 
which the FMS(Alarm System) owner has declined to do due to various reasons.

There is a lot of processing done to get appropriate information for SMS 
,before it goes from Remedy System to the SMS gateway.

Yes, the volume of the Alarms to be converted to Incidents( only incidents will 
be created from Alarms) is high and the Customer is least bothered about 
handling of these tickets. He just wants to trigger Escalation(SLA breach) SMS 
if the Alarm is not automatically cleared.

In addition to the above type of tickets. Remedy system is supposed to handle 
approx 70k tickets per day , which will be assigned to the appropriate groups 
and it needs to be worked upon by ground staff using a Mobile App. These 
tickets(Incidents/Change/Problem) also have their own processing and automation 
before it hits the database.SMS flows for these type of tickets as well.

We have already implemented this for 70k tickets per day, but the new volume of 
Alarms makes me little hesitant to commit to the Customer. Also I don’t want to 
make the Remedy System as a SMS dispatcher tool instead of its core 
functionalities of ticket tracking and service management.

I really appreciate your thoughts and opinion. Thanks

Regards,
Praveen

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Janie Sprenger
Sent: 20 January 2015 22:24
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Need Suggestion

**
Are you in disagreement because you don't think Remedy can handle the volume or 
the volume won't be appropriately handled by personnel once it's in Remedy?
Some additional things to think about are:
By ticket, do you mean Incident or Change Request or Task or Work Order or 
something custom, by escalations do you mean related transaction records?
Are all of the tickets that get generated supposed to end up being handled 
manually by people?
Is there more processing and automation that occurs once the ticket is 
generated in Remedy?
Is the process flow escalation intended to be more than a historical audit 
record of the event?

Obviously, the volume is really high and it's hard to think of any companies 
that can manually handle that kind of volume on a daily basis so that means 
there is more to the story.
IMO, Here's the thing to keep in mind, the customer is trying to solve a 
problem.  They are attempting to use Remedy to solve that problem, which is 
good so you don't want to deter from them from what Remedy can and should be 
doing.  But you also need to help to find a solution for the actual issue at 
hand because if they really have 3.5 to 9.5 million daily faults occurring in 
their environment, then they really do have a problem they have to sort out. 
Perhaps it's a matter of getting a handle on what is faulting, maybe SMS or FMS 
is or isn't configured correctly, maybe the faults are warnings and some are 
faults that need to be addressed.  Maybe there is something to be aware of 
other than just processing millions of individual tickets into a 1 to 1 mapping 
between the fault and the ticket.

My suggestion is to find out what the end goal is for the data that goes into 
Remedy, regardless of the volume and see where that takes you with whether or 
not Remedy can assist 

Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Saraswat, Praveen
Hi Janie,

Customer has one of worlds largest passive support for Telcos due to which the 
volume of alarms from different EMSs is high. Actual need was to notify the 
stakeholders through SMS before it qualified to be converted to an Incident and 
follow a set escalation matrix in case Alarm is not able to clear itself from 
EMS systems.
You are right in your understanding that Customer is trying to solve a problem 
which the FMS(Alarm System) owner has declined to do due to various reasons.

There is a lot of processing done to get appropriate information for SMS 
,before it goes from Remedy System to the SMS gateway.

Yes, the volume of the Alarms to be converted to Incidents( only incidents will 
be created from Alarms) is high and the Customer is least bothered about 
handling of these tickets. He just wants to trigger Escalation(SLA breach) SMS 
if the Alarm is not automatically cleared.

In addition to the above type of tickets. Remedy system is supposed to handle 
approx 70k tickets per day , which will be assigned to the appropriate groups 
and it needs to be worked upon by ground staff using a Mobile App. These 
tickets(Incidents/Change/Problem) also have their own processing and automation 
before it hits the database.SMS flows for these type of tickets as well.

We have already implemented this for 70k tickets per day, but the new volume of 
Alarms makes me little hesitant to commit to the Customer. Also I don’t want to 
make the Remedy System as a SMS dispatcher tool instead of its core 
functionalities of ticket tracking and service management.

I really appreciate your thoughts and opinion. Thanks

Regards,
Praveen

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Janie Sprenger
Sent: 20 January 2015 22:24
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Need Suggestion

**
Are you in disagreement because you don't think Remedy can handle the volume or 
the volume won't be appropriately handled by personnel once it's in Remedy?
Some additional things to think about are:
By ticket, do you mean Incident or Change Request or Task or Work Order or 
something custom, by escalations do you mean related transaction records?
Are all of the tickets that get generated supposed to end up being handled 
manually by people?
Is there more processing and automation that occurs once the ticket is 
generated in Remedy?
Is the process flow escalation intended to be more than a historical audit 
record of the event?

Obviously, the volume is really high and it's hard to think of any companies 
that can manually handle that kind of volume on a daily basis so that means 
there is more to the story.
IMO, Here's the thing to keep in mind, the customer is trying to solve a 
problem.  They are attempting to use Remedy to solve that problem, which is 
good so you don't want to deter from them from what Remedy can and should be 
doing.  But you also need to help to find a solution for the actual issue at 
hand because if they really have 3.5 to 9.5 million daily faults occurring in 
their environment, then they really do have a problem they have to sort out. 
Perhaps it's a matter of getting a handle on what is faulting, maybe SMS or FMS 
is or isn't configured correctly, maybe the faults are warnings and some are 
faults that need to be addressed.  Maybe there is something to be aware of 
other than just processing millions of individual tickets into a 1 to 1 mapping 
between the fault and the ticket.

My suggestion is to find out what the end goal is for the data that goes into 
Remedy, regardless of the volume and see where that takes you with whether or 
not Remedy can assist with solving the customer's problem.

HTH,
Janie

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Saraswat, Praveen 
psaras...@columnit.commailto:psaras...@columnit.com wrote:
**

Hi All,



I have below requirement from one of the Customer. Wanted to check if anyone 
has done this before for such volume.



Requirement – Customer wants to send SMS to the stakeholders for any 
escalations on the tickets generated from Alarm (Fault Management System).

Volume of tickets to be generated from Alarms – 3.5 million per day on day 1. 
Eventually the count to increase to 9.5 million per day.

For any given ticket,2 to 3 SMS to flow from the system as part of the 
escalation matrix.

Is remedy system the right place to handle SMS flow of this volume?



I am in disagreement to use the Remedy System as SMS dispatcher for such a 
large volume of tickets.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestions?



Regards,

Praveen




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BMC Atrium SSO Question

2015-01-20 Thread Terri Lockwood
Am researching installing BMC Atrium Single Sign-On and have a question for 
those of you that have already done this.  BMC recommends that it is installed 
on a separate server from other BMC products.  So I have an ARS server, MidTier 
server, SmartIT server, and now will have an SSO server.  Does that sound 
correct to those who have installed SSO?

Thank you,

~~~
Terri

ARS 8.1.01
ITSM 8.1.01
Midtier 8.1.01
SRM 8.1.01
Windows 2008 R2
MS SQL 2008 R2 SP2



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Re: BMC Atrium SSO Question

2015-01-20 Thread Jon Chau
Hi Terri,

Based on what is recommended I believe that is correct.  I didn't have a
separate server for SSO so I put it on the same ARS Server for our upgrade
staging environment.

Thanks,
Jon

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Terri Lockwood 
teresa.lockw...@sungard.com wrote:

 **

 Am researching installing BMC Atrium Single Sign-On and have a question
 for those of you that have already done this.  BMC recommends that it is
 installed on a separate server from other BMC products.  So I have an ARS
 server, MidTier server, SmartIT server, and now will have an SSO server.  Does
 that sound correct to those who have installed SSO?



 Thank you,



 ~~~

 Terri



 ARS 8.1.01

 ITSM 8.1.01

 Midtier 8.1.01

 SRM 8.1.01

 Windows 2008 R2

 MS SQL 2008 R2 SP2




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Does the LDAP authentication service for remedy 7.1, running on SunOS 5.9 support SHA2 encryption?

2015-01-20 Thread MalviyaSaurabh
Hi All,
 
This is a query related to AREA LDAP authentication for ARS 7.1. Would like
to know experts' opinions. Our LDAP servers are currently using SHA1 and
soon they are going to be using SHA2, hence want to know if it is possible
in remedy to have AREA LDAP configuration supporting SHA2.
 
Need some expert advice urgently on this please. Does the LDAP
authentication service for remedy 7.1, running on SunOS 5.9 support SHA2
encryption? If yes how can we configure it or it has to do something from
LDAP and not from remedy.
 
Regards,
Saurabh



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