Re: Shared Workflow across ARS Servers

2006-09-18 Thread Rodney Harris
** Hi Conrad,   What you are describing should work just fine. You can do client side operations such as active links and table fields across multiple servers. The main limitation with this approach is that the client must be logged in to each server. That usually means that their passwor

Licenses Information

2006-09-18 Thread Puneet MALIK
Hello All, In our organistaion there is a need to monitor licenses (Fixed, Floating, Read) for remedy (6.3). Can anybody help me by telling the name of database table (database fields description) that is populated used when a license is allotted to a user. So that I can pick the information

Re: Licenses Information

2006-09-18 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi Puneet Malik, Unfortunately, there is no such table. You can turn on server statistics to monitor license usage. The user.log-file is a good place to go for license usage statistics. You can use the FREE part of our rrrLicense-tool tool to parse and present the data in a nice way: http://www

Re: Forms overlaying

2006-09-18 Thread Liz Feulner
Yes. - Original Message - From: "Grooms, Frederick W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Forms overlaying Is your Display Only form being opened as a Dialog? Fred -Original Message- From:

ITSM Sample data (revisited)

2006-09-18 Thread Tony Worthington
** So it appears that the sample data is included in the ITSM distribution, it's just not imported. Has anyone attempted to modifiy the xml (rik?) files to get this data in?  Seems like you could just uncomment everything below... and do the same for all the ITSM 7 apps... This is from the Asset

Re: Forms overlaying

2006-09-18 Thread Liz Feulner
Got it to work. I opened the form as dialog. Then it opened on top. Then added the additional fields I needed to the tablefield to set and it worked. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Grooms, Frederick W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: Sent: Fri

OT: CMDB essentials from Dell and Altiris

2006-09-18 Thread igor ivanov
FYI http://www.networkworld.com/marketing/client06/02088_altiris2/altiris2_app.h tml HTH ii ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Re: CMDB essentials from Dell and Altiris

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: CMDB essentials from Dell and Altiris ** Igor: The URL was mangled by the system. Nice demo. James McKenzie   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of igor ivanov Sent: Monday, September 18, 20

HD 6.0 - Field Attributes

2006-09-18 Thread Sanford, Claire
Does anyone know where Remedy stores the attributes for a field? Ie 0=New, 1=Assigned? Is this in a table somewhere??? Our DBA is trying to pull the data without using the ARODBC and he can't seem to find the value instead of just the integer. Thanks! ARS 6.3 HD 6 Oracle 10 something _

Re: Licenses Information

2006-09-18 Thread Sinclair, Carin
Hi, No tool what we have done is created workflow that fires on the INIT form to get the license from USER and write to log file. Carin -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Puneet MALIK Sent: Monday, September 18

Re: HD 6.0 - Field Attributes

2006-09-18 Thread Ian Trimnell
** Sanford, Claire wrote: Does anyone know where Remedy stores the attributes for a field? Ie 0=New, 1=Assigned? Is this in a table somewhere??? Our DBA is trying to pull the data without using the ARODBC and he can't seem to find the value instead of just the integer. Thanks! ARS 6.

Re: HD 6.0 - Field Attributes

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: HD 6.0 - Field Attributes ** Claire: Are we talking about enumerated fields, such as Status? I think it is in field_enum_values for the value translation from the number to the actual value.  You might try the following code: Select enumid, value from field_enum_values wher

Asset Management

2006-09-18 Thread Christopher Gillman
** Listers,   I’m looking for information regarding Asset Management from a “scopeage” level. I’m trying to put together some questionnaires that will aid in fitting BMC’s Asset Management Module to a customer’s Asset Management process. If possible I’m looking for ideas for a “Process Re

Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread ARS Bob
** Looking to upgrade a ARS 5.x server to ARS 7.  It's possible that it might not be feasible to get all of the potentially connecting User Tools upgraded in a timely fashion.Will upgrading the server have any adverse effects on those clients still connecting with a 5.x User Tool? __20060125__

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread ARS Bob
** Just to followup myself with another question  Let's say we decide to start upgrading User Tools *before* we start the server upgrade process.  Would there be any issues using a 7.x User Tool against a 5.x Server? On 9/18/06, ARS Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looking to upgrade a ARS 5.x se

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? ** ARSBob: I recommend that you upgrade the User Tool to the latest/greatest version while keeping in mind that you may need to patch your server to prevent problems.  You will not gain the 7.0 functionality that is included with t

Re: ITSM Sample data (revisited)

2006-09-18 Thread Pedro Cardoso
** Tony, I hope that little change bring me the Sample Data! I will use it next time.   Thanks.   Pedro C'r  On 9/18/06, Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** So it appears that the sample data is included in the ITSM distribution, it's just not imported. Has anyone attempted to modifiy t

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread Rick cook
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? ** I second James' recommendation - updating the UT first is a better path.  The basic rule is that when using an older UT, it will *probably* function fine until you run into an API or function that is different between client and

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? ** Rick:   I never recommend using a down-level user tool.  I do recommend NOT using an administrator tool that is not the same level as what your server is (this can lead to interesting consequences.) I also second your test it, te

RocKnot

2006-09-18 Thread Scott Barr
** Anyone know what happened to these guys?   -Scott   [EMAIL PROTECTED]     This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-clie

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread Rick cook
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? ** Totally agree on the Admin versions.  We've both seen how that can hose a person/application.   What I was saying on the UT/Server mismatch is that if you have to choose to upgrade one first (which is not that uncommon with large

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server?

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? ** Rick:   I agree with this.  Like I said, test, test, and test again.  I would still expect calls that something does not work, but at least I would know the most common things do so that I can work on those items that are not.  I

Re: RocKnot

2006-09-18 Thread Pruitt, Christopher J
** No one wanted to buy their software so they are no longer in business.   Christopher Pruitt Consultant Specialist EDS - Bank of America I3-Inventory IW Infrastructure Team Phone: +1-972-605-7702 (8-835)  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: This message and any files transmi

many arserverd processes in Linux

2006-09-18 Thread Jose Manuel Viejo Lobato
Hi all... Our new production box is doing something I've never seen before. It's a Linux box (RedHat Enterprise 3), with ARS 6.3. In a new instalation, when I start ARSystem, there are multiple arserverd (14), arfork (3) and arplugin (7) processes. I read in the supportweb knowledgebase, this h

Importing data for 7.0

2006-09-18 Thread Steve C
Hello Folks! Has anyone had any luck importing existing Data other then asset into 7.0? Do you have any tips that you can share with me? Thanks! ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://

ARS 7.0 - How Many SQL Server Licenses Required

2006-09-18 Thread Heider, Stephen
**    Was this ever clarified at BUW?   12. Clarify in writing the exact licensing requirements with ARS on SQL Server.  After many contacts with our vendor, and our vendor directly with BMC, there is no consensus on how to properly license SQL Server to run ARS.  Is it by the number of th

Re: ARS 7.0 - How Many SQL Server Licenses Required

2006-09-18 Thread Rick cook
** Your licensing agreement with MS should cover that.  All DBMS vendors have changed their contracts in recent years to account for applications like Remedy, and they are pretty specific about the licensing requirements for those situations.   That being said, you may be able to negotiate s

Change lock state of workflow

2006-09-18 Thread Graham Newman
Hi there, I have managed to misread the manual and export a set of definition files in a 'read-only' lock state. I then imported these onto a server that is runnign as out live server and as such cannot modify any items in Admin as they are all marked as 'read-only'. Is there a hack to switch

Re: many arserverd processes in Linux

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: many arserverd processes in Linux ** Jose: Are you watching threads? What is the ps line you are using? James McKenzie L-3 GSI   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jose Manuel Viejo Lobato

Re: ARS 7.0 - How Many SQL Server Licenses Required

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: ARS 7.0 - How Many SQL Server Licenses Required ** Rick:   Since I work in an Oracle environment, I can address what happened here.  Our Oracle license changed from a 25 user license to a single CPU license.  I suspect that M$ went the same way.   James McKenzie   ___

Re: many arserverd processes in Linux

2006-09-18 Thread Jose Manuel Viejo Lobato
I'm using: ps -ef |grep ARS The process listed have each one their own PID. In the developement server (is the same OS, the same version... the same), there are only one process for each: arserverd, arforkd, arplugin. more details from the machine: Two Processors 64bits Oracle 9.2 ARS patch17 o

Re: many arserverd processes in Linux

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: many arserverd processes in Linux ** Jose: Interesting as it appears that each thread (or what should be a thread) is starting its own process.  You are correct in this happened before.  I don't know what was done to fix this. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: Ac

Re: Change lock state of workflow

2006-09-18 Thread David Sanders
Hi Graham Oh dear, you have a major problem. Was this a full def file, or only a partial one? Were any data forms included in the locked def file? You cannot import unlocked versions of the defs in place to replace the locked ones, and if you delete any object from the locked set, all locked obj

Re: Change lock state of workflow

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Change lock state of workflow ** Dave: And the OP better hope that s/he can find an unlocked set as I think you cannot export an unlocked set AFTER you export a locked one. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:a

How to create report that will print Audit Trail

2006-09-18 Thread GoDario27
Hi all...newbie here! What the goal is - is to have the audit trail print along with the Change Request details when you click the "Print Change Request" button. I know how to add fields using the Report Creator form, but since Audit Trail uses it's own db table, it only returns the lable "audit

Re: RocKnot

2006-09-18 Thread Ron Tavares
** I just got back from Remedy Training in Columbia, MD and the instructor mentioned the RockNot tool.  He advised it was a good testing tool and referred us the the webite, rocknot.com.  But the site is no longer up.   .ron  On 9/18/06, Pruitt, Christopher J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** No on

Re: How to create report that will print Audit Trail

2006-09-18 Thread Muhlethaler, Laurie - GPM
If you're using Crystal, you can use a sub-report -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GoDario27 Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:31 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: How to create report that will print Au

Re: RocKnot

2006-09-18 Thread Frank Caruso
** Search the arslist for rocknot and you will find a lot of discussions answering the sam e questions.On 9/18/06, Ron Tavares < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:** I just got back from Remedy Training in Columbia, MD and the instructor mentioned the RockNot tool.  He advised it was a good testing tool and

Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few days a go I read this " You can run multiple instances of BMC Remedy AR System on a single server, as well as run multiple BMC Remedy AR System servers with a single database." According to this there are two kinds of instances, What's the different between them? Regards _

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There's technically three possibilities from this: 1) One physical server with multiple instances of Remedy running on it, connecting to multiple databases. 2) One physical server with multiple instances of Remedy running on it, connecting to a single database. 3) Multiple physical servers with

Re: Change lock state of workflow

2006-09-18 Thread Carey Matthew Black
James, The export operation does not lock the objects on the server that the objects are coming out of. (So the "source" remains "unlocked".) Unless of course if you managed to then turn around and import that file that you just exported back into the ARS server that you exported it from. That wo

Re: many arserverd processes in Linux

2006-09-18 Thread Jason Miller
** I have the same situation with my test server (also RH ES3). My test server has two ARS (6.3) servers running. Each takes about 25% CPU with zero load on them and shows way more process then my production server that sits at 99% idle. According to my Unix admins the servers are identical hardw

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
well I'm a little confuse "One physical server with multiple instances of Remedy running on it, connecting to multiple databases. " In this case you mean Remedy ARS install in c: and the other one in d:, OK multiple databses you mean db2, SQL, Sorry but like I said i'm confused thanks ___

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've never done it on Windows so I'm not sure of the specifics but basically you do set it up by installing the files in different locations. What I don't know how you would do in Windows would be to get the Services working correctly. As far as multiple database are concerned, you could theoreti

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Instances, two types? ** Karl: I think I know what you are talking about: It is possible to have more than one ARS server instance running on a single system.  Only one, and only one, can be connected to by using the portmapper function built into the ARS user processes (User, A

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Here is a real world example that may help. We have 3 Remedy servers running on the same Sun box. devars, tstars, trainars Dev runs at port 3000 and connects to Oracle server ora-arsdev Test runs at port 3030 and connects to Oracle server ora-arstest Train runs at port 3060 and connects to Ora

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
On Windows, you might end up w/ a structure that looks like this: C:\Program Files\AR System\ARS6\arserver1 C:\Program Files\AR System\ARS6\arserver2 C:\Program Files\AR System\ARS6\arserver3 C:\Program Files\AR System\ARS7\arserver4 C:\Program Files\AR System\ARS7\arserver5 C:\Program Files\AR Sy

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? (U)

2006-09-18 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
Title: Message ** UNCLASSIFIED   I cannot speak for the 7x user tool but we upgraded from 5.1.2 to 6.3 -     5x tool to 6.3 app, big problems experienced as to make the app not usable     6.3 tool to 5x server, no problem using the local client   Testing, testing then testing some more is

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and What about the licenses when you have that such server with several ARS instances? is there any problem about that? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Jason Miller
** Hi Matt,I have only run multiple servers on Linux. Are there any special gotchas doing this on Windows? Do the instances stay pretty well isolated from each other? No dll or registry conflicts?Jason On 9/18/06, Matt Reinfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Windows, you might end up w/ a structure

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? (U)

2006-09-18 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? (U) ** Sandra:   As I stated earlier, you should not use a downlevel user program (5.1.2 program with 6.3 server) this can cause major headaches.  You can use an uplevel user program (6.3 program with 5.1.2 server) as long as the ser

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
No. All the licenses get stored in individual folders (AR Server name)in C:\Program Files\Common Files\AR System\Licenses\. Matt R. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Instance

Re: Any issues using 5.x User Tool with a 7.x Server? (U)

2006-09-18 Thread Jason Miller
** One other thing to note is typically an upgrade to the 6.3 client will use the same home path as the previously installed version on the machine (C:\Program Files\...). Any fresh installs of the 6.3 client will want to install into the user's profile path by default (C:\Documents and Settings\..

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
** Jason,   I haven’t had any real issues with it.  The only issue I saw was with multiple versions of the user tool.  I had 6.3 and 7.0 installed (User Tools) installed on the same machine.  I had been using the version 7 osbc driver for crystal reports.  I patched the 6.3 UT and acciden

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But I have to use diffrent Fixed and floating licesens, o I can use the same ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Considering switching to Tomcat on W2K3/IIS6 for ARS 7 architecture

2006-09-18 Thread strauss
What are the issues that I might run into if I use Tomcat 5.x instead of ServletExec 5.x for mid-tier 7 running on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and IIS 6.0? I got the distinct impression at UserWorld that BMC Remedy was seriously considering switching to Tomcat from ServletExec as the default ap

CHG Status Values Problem

2006-09-18 Thread Dylan Thomas
Having a weird problem with my CHG form. the status values were altered a while ago. I upgraded our server to 6.3.0 Patch 18 from an original 6.3.0 install. I didn't change the application, just the server files. Everything went fine but one problem I'm finding now. If I email the status it will se

CI Relationship Viewer

2006-09-18 Thread Mary C.
I have done an out of box install of ITSM 7.0 on Windows 2003 box. I also installed Mid-tier 7.0 Patch 001 on another box. The CI Relationship Viewer does not work. It used to throw an "Unable to download plugin" error. I reinstalled mid-tier from scratch and also installed ServletExec AS. N

ITSM 7 import templates

2006-09-18 Thread Chris Rom
Everyone, I believe someone already posted some ITSM import templates on the list recently, however, the attachment did not make it through to the digest. Does anyone know who posted them and when ? Could someone please send them to me or provide a download link ? Thanks Chris __

Re: Instances, two types?

2006-09-18 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
If your "Site Name" is the same across your servers, which it most likely is, you can use the Fixed User licenses across all servers, making sure that you comply with the Licensing Agreement. Floating licenses, whether they be for applications (Asset, Change, etc.) or just plain old Floating User

Re: Licenses Information

2006-09-18 Thread Puneet MALIK
Hello Misi, Thanks a lot for the advise.. But unfornately https://www.rrr.se site is not available. I will try again after sometime to check... Regards, Puneet Malik -Original Message- From: Misi Mladoniczky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:52 PM To: arslis

Re: Shared Workflow across ARS Servers

2006-09-18 Thread Conrad Pereira
** Hi Rodney,   Thanks for the info. I have enabled both the servers in the accounts dialog box on the user tool and then tried to pick the value from the form on the second server. It still gives the error "Form does not exist on server" or now a new error "ARERR [150] A server name must be suppli

Re: Shared Workflow across ARS Servers

2006-09-18 Thread Naveen Kaushik
** Please try following thing:   1. Edit the ar.cfg (Windows) or ar.conf file (UNIX) on the server. 2. Add a line that specifies the server name, if it does not already exist: Server-Name: 3. Restart the AR Server, which loads the plug-in.   Regards Naveen         From

Private RPC process(queue)

2006-09-18 Thread Jarl Grøneng
What is the purpose configuring private RPC process(queue)? If you direct all api calls into 390620 and 390635 (fast and list), and let them handle all request with: first come, first serve. With a private process you still have to wait for the database to complete its operations, and with a good

Re: Shared Workflow across ARS Servers

2006-09-18 Thread Narayanan, Radhika
** Hi,   There's one thing that I've tested on ARS 5.1.2 on Windows 2000 using browser client.  If the second server wasn't registered with portmapper, then the workflow couldn't execute. You see, we can't specify the port in a Set Fields From or Direct SQL actions for the second server.   T