ADM:Test please ignore

2007-01-02 Thread Daniel Bloom
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ARPlugin error + Web Service mapping

2007-01-02 Thread Ankur Gulati (GR/EIL)
Hi Listers, Wish you all a happy new year. :) When the Web Service is called I get an error message ARERR [8939] The AR System Plug-In server is not responding. Cannot connect to the system at this time. Contact your AR System Administrator for assistance. Though the web service gets

ADM: We are up and running again

2007-01-02 Thread Daniel Bloom
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Re: What is Definitive Software Library (DSL)? and Updates downloadable

2007-01-02 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Yup, if you want to stick with the out-of-the-box DSL, Chris is right - you'll be stuck with the Software -> Application -> Third Party -> Product Name categories - my question is - what good does this do for reporting purposes? If almost everything sits in that one CTI (I think there is one

Re: COLCOUNT Function

2007-01-02 Thread L. J. Head
Well yeathere's always the how...:) _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:30 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: COLCOUNT Function ** To add to L. J., use EXTERNAL keyword to

2 X Contract Positions. Remedy ARS Development. West London, UK

2007-01-02 Thread James Richardson
Good Afternoon to you List, Happy New Year to you, I hope 2007 is a properous and exciting year for us all. I just wanted to kick off the new year with a couple of contract requirements that Turing SMI Resource Management have: We are looking for 2 x Contract Remedy ARS Developers, West Lond

Re: ARPlugin error + Web Service mapping

2007-01-02 Thread Kelly Heikkila
Unlicensed servers only have one thread (Admin thread). So, when you make a web service call, that thread locks, and if the service you are calling also needs to interact with the ARServer, there are no threads available, and it will timeout. Applying a license to an unlicensed serverlicensed wil

Re: COLCOUNT Function

2007-01-02 Thread Jim Bruce
Hi Lisa, a direct SQL count should do the trick, unless you are resisting this idea. Example: select count(*) from your-table where particular-column = 'X' Jim Bruce TELUS Mobility 416-279-3455 On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:11:54 -0500, Kemes, Lisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Listers, > >Would I

Announcements

2007-01-02 Thread Axton
A few announcements: - RTL is now compatible with the 7.x api - JOARSE is now compatible with the 7.x api (source only, will make builds available for download soon) - RTL and JOARSE source files and license now reflect the LGPL license ARSWiki Updates: - My article on data visualization plugins

mid tier

2007-01-02 Thread David Yearsley
ARSystem 6.03.00 Sun Servers: Solaris 9 We are having problems with the mid tier today and my co-worker who does most of the work had an appendectomy last night and is not available. Are there configuration files for the mid tier similar to ARSystem files? Where are they? and can you delete

Application license monitoring

2007-01-02 Thread Uday Joshi
Hi All, Wish you happy new year!!! As a part of Remedy Administrative task I need to monitor the utilization of Application licenses. similar to AR User licenses which can be monitored via Server Statistics. I did following 1) In the Application statistics configuration defined the applicati

How to limit number of users working with deployable application

2007-01-02 Thread mentor
Hi. I have deployable application and would like to limit the number of users working with it at the same time (concurrently) - for example max 5 users. What is the easiest way to do this? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist

ARS - Virtual vs. Physical Environment Setup

2007-01-02 Thread Susie
Hello ARSlist Members, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We recently purchased the Remedy AR System 7.0 product and are in the planning phase of the project. Our classes are scheduled to begin at the end of January, but we are eager to find out more information on the product. Speci

Re: mid tier

2007-01-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Which password are you talking about? The mid-tier configuration password? The user password associated with every user? Joe - Original Message From: David Yearsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 10:39:01 AM Subject: mid tier ** ARSystem 6.

Re: mid tier

2007-01-02 Thread David Yearsley
I was talking about the admin password in the mid tier configuration, but I was finally able to get it reset. Thanks for the response. ** >>> Joe DeSouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan 02, 2007 9:39 AM >>> Which password are you talking about? The mid-tier configuration password? The user password a

Re: ARS - Virtual vs. Physical Environment Setup

2007-01-02 Thread Roger Justice
7.0 is officially supported in a Virtual environment. 6.3 would work however if you had any question for BMC support you could not get any answers. You need the new licenses since the CMDB, Incident, Problem and Chnage application cannot be loaded unless the Application licenses are already load

Re: ARS - Virtual vs. Physical Environment Setup

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Fincher
Suzie, I am currently running a Dev enviroment on Microsoft's Virtual PC. Setup and operation or ARS is no different in the virtual side than it is on the production. The plus side to this is that virtual operation allows for me to quickly mirror an entire server for a baseline so that I can

ITSM 6 to ITSM 7 migration

2007-01-02 Thread Eli
So I just wanted to throw out a quick note to get some feedback from those of you who may have already gone through this. I am looking to upgrade/migrate from ITSM 6.3 to 7.x. At this point in time my plan is to bring up a new server with 7.x installed; run in parallel for a short time them mi

Perfomance Metrics - How do measure this?

2007-01-02 Thread Kyle Whitley
I am in the need of creating/gathering some performance metrics (time spent from assignment to resolution) for a support group. I was wondering how you might do this. I think I could use the Assigned and Resolved time and take a difference of those field values, or possibly look at the Status

Re: Perfomance Metrics - How do measure this?

2007-01-02 Thread Candace DeCou
You know the problem with performance metrics is that the diff between Assigned and Resolved time doesn't necessarily reflect the real amount of time that it takes a tech to work a ticket. We try very hard to get our techs to actually fill in the Time Spent fields (on Help Desk case form) since th

Re: Perfomance Metrics - How do measure this?

2007-01-02 Thread Kyle Whitley
I agree wholeheartedly, and so does my management. I was just looking for a place to start. I hoping to rely on something that was system populated with no user intervention required. Thanks Kyle Candace DeCou wrote: You know the problem with performance metrics is that the diff between

Updated ARS 7.x FAQ's

2007-01-02 Thread Gidd Calden
Listers: Thanks to Lenny you can find his latest update for ARS 7.x: http://www.buoyantsolutions.net/Download_ARS70.html * Admin70FAQ.doc * CrystalReports_WhitePaper.doc Remedy User Version Supported Version of Crystal Reports Professional 5.1.2, 6.x 9.0 5.1, 5.1.1 8.5

Email Inbound, extracting text strings

2007-01-02 Thread ARS Dummie
Hi there, I need to create certain requests from specific incoming emails. I already created a new form in which I push the subject and mail body from AR System Email Messages when a new mail comes in (if the subject is containing a specific string). Now I have the mail body field in my new form

Re: Email Inbound, extracting text strings

2007-01-02 Thread Julie Rockwood
Hi Dan, Here is something that will return all the characters from the first non blank character after !536870951!: to the line feed. As you all ready know, you would have to change substr and strstr to substrc and strstrc. LTRIM(LEFT(SUBSTR($Text Body$, STRSTR($Text Body$, "!536870951!:")

Print option from attachements

2007-01-02 Thread Richard Crosby
Hello Listers, I posed this question to BMC support and the response was useless (which seems to be par for the course lately). "Curerntly, in the Change Management application, when an attachment is opened (from an attachment pool) it is served up as a .jsp but does not offer any option to pr

Re: Print option from attachements

2007-01-02 Thread Rick Cook
Richard, what I hear them saying is that you (like most of us) use the actual applications in which to view documents, spreadsheets, etc. What they want you to do is view them all via the browser. Not a very friendly workaround, I'd have to agree. Rick On 1/2/07, Richard Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECT

CMDB Federation and CMDB UI

2007-01-02 Thread John Sundberg
I was doing a little investigation on CMDB federation specifically around CMDB federation outside of BMC CMDB. I found the white paper "Federation and a CMDB" on the BMC website. It seems to be that the way to federate is to either - modify CMDB so that you click a button and open the CI in anothe

Re: mid tier

2007-01-02 Thread Treis
The default password for mid-tier is Arsystem. If this doesn't work you will need to re-install.If you change the password in the config.properties file for mid-tier. You will break the authentication. The best way to change the password is to reinstall. Darknight Corp.

Performance Issues caused by User Queries - Remedy 6.3/Oracle 10.0.2

2007-01-02 Thread Shawn Stonequist
Greetings List!! We have an issue in which some users (we know not who) are running queries which are affecting the performance of our Remedy system, causing significant delays, issues, and even complete system lock-ups for all our Users. We have three goals that we would like to accomplish: 1) I

Re: Performance Issues caused by User Queries - Remedy 6.3/Oracle 10.0.2

2007-01-02 Thread Axton
You can do a couple of things: - look at the remedy logs to figure out what these people are doing (sql); then take steps to stop it. - Limit the number of records the server can return (admin tool/ar.conf) Unfortunately, from the db side, there is not much you can do to stop what has started, sh

Re: mid tier

2007-01-02 Thread Axton
No, you can reset the password in the config.properties safely. Simply retrieve the default value for arsystem, then place that hashed pwd value into the config.properties file, then restart the jsp/servlet container. This is safer and less prone to problems than reinstalling; which can potential

Re: Performance Issues caused by User Queries - Remedy 6.3/Oracle 10.0.2

2007-01-02 Thread DILL, PATRICK A
We ran into these issues awhile back given some of our tables have millions of rows, so we created a simple "search capture" form and "search protection" dialog form. These could help if uses are performing searching in forms or reports, if they are searching via ODBC then you might consider

Email and Alert notifications....

2007-01-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Hello Listers, First of all wish all of you a very Happy new year... This is our configuration: ARS 6.3 Patch 19 We are on Solaris 5.10 Some of the users on our Remedy system are authenticated over LDAP while some are autheticated from the ARS. What we have noticed is if we try to send a notif

Re: RE : Remedy ARS 6.3 server process crash randomly

2007-01-02 Thread fred li
Hi, My current Oracle server version is 9.2.0.5. Should I upgrade both server and client OR just the Oracle client? Arerror.log Tue Jan 2 14:28:49 2007 0 : AR System server terminated when a signal/exception was received by the server (ARNO

Re: Remedy ARS 6.3 server process crash randomly

2007-01-02 Thread fred li
Should I upgrade both Oracle server and client version OR just Oracle client will be OK? Best regards, Frank From: Axton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fred li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Remedy ARS 6.3 server process crash randomly Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:03:24 -0500 Set the environment v

Re: Email and Alert notifications....

2007-01-02 Thread Axton
There is a parameter you have to set in your ar.conf to address this if the data (email address) is not available in your LDAP directory. External-Authentication-Return-Data-Capabilities A bit mask that allows you to specify the return data capabilities for the current AREA plug-in. This settin

Re: Email and Alert notifications....

2007-01-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Hello Axton, Thank you so much for your email. I just tried what you suggested and added this line to my ar.conf file and it works like a charm.. Both internally authenticated users as well as externally authenticated users now receive the intended emails and alerts.. This is what I added to my

Re: ARPlugin error + Web Service mapping

2007-01-02 Thread Ankur Gulati (GR/EIL)
Thanks Kelly... I'll try this out. Ankur From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Heikkila Sent: 02 January 2007 08:20 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARPlugin error + Web Service mapping ** Unl

Re: Perfomance Metrics - How do measure this?

2007-01-02 Thread Siti Hawa Bee SHAIK FARID
Hi Candace, I agree with you. That should be the ideal workflow. However, most often, the engineers were onsites and we got to update on their behalf and at time the timing given were inaccurate. So we did not use disable those timing to enter the time spent. Now, I just use the calculation base

Re: Performance Issues caused by User Queries - Remedy 6.3/Oracle 10.0.2

2007-01-02 Thread lars . j . pettersson
Shawn, why not take a look at rrrLog from misi, at www.rrr.se rrrLog: Find the performance bottle necks in your system. What form use most system resources? Find slow API/SQL-calls, and browse the filters that have been triggered. You will be able to sort by processing time and identify which s