Re: Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I believe the enviroment variable is ARTCPPORT not AR_TCP_PORT Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Worthington Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Netcool 7.1 +

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor
Carey, Maybe in this case, WE ARE QA? On a good note, we did go the installation executables path. We upgraded our ARS, Email, and Flashboards 6.3 P18 to ARS 6.3 P20 on a Windows 2003/Remote SQL Server environment. We uninstalled Mid-Tier 7.0.0 Patch 1 from our Windows 2003/IIS/Servlet Exec ser

Re: SSO Problem: AREA being called more than once

2007-01-30 Thread Mikhail Serate
Hello Ben, I looked at the Configuration Guide's list of the parameters related to area and notification and this is what i found: Option: External-Authentication-Return-Data-Capabilities Description: A bit mask that allows you to specify the return data capabilities for the current AREA plugin

Re: Apple Safari Web Interface

2007-01-30 Thread Easter, David
I did want to mention that Firefox 1.5 and above is currently supported on Mac OS X (as is Mozilla). Just want to make sure that folks don't think that there is no "Remedy support" on Mac OS X. The conversation here has been about Safari support for AR System. Thanks, -David J. Easter Sr. Produ

Re: Firing a filter with arsperl

2007-01-30 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I may be a bit confused here ... Since you have a filter to do your work you can have it fire on any modify or submit. If you only want it to fire for a specific process then you can create a Display Only field that the perl program puts a special value in when modifying the record and have the fi

Re: Firing a filter with arsperl

2007-01-30 Thread Michiel Beijen
If you'd submit data with ARSPerl this is being treated as any other method of data entry. That is, the filter will fire depending on the Run If qualification and the Submit / Modify / Merge checkboxes. -- Michiel On 1/30/07, Tom L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know how to fire an AR f

Re: Firing a filter with arsperl

2007-01-30 Thread Tom L
I figured this out. Thanks On Jan 30, 1:46 pm, Tom L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to fire an AR filter using arsperl? I have a > webform that is submitting data. I created a filter to encrypt the > data from one field and I need to fire the filter from arsperl. Any > comments

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
That's actually a question to which I don't know the answer. Would there still be enough C/S traffic for the server to know that the Active Link has run? How much impact would that be on the server, since a form's Active Links are cached with the form to the client? Anyone? Bueller? Rick

Re: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
Overheard at the daily BMC support team meeting: "Maybe if we leave the new tickets alone long enough, they'll find the answer on the arslist and figure it out for themselves. Then we can follow-up with them in a few weeks, as the issue is probably solved. Make sure you offer help though; jus

Re: Firing a filter with arsperl

2007-01-30 Thread L. J. Head
Part of me wants to say 'you can't'...because filters run on the server not the client...and your arsperl program is a client. I would think that you would create the filter to fire on submit...and then have arsperl perform the submit...the server should take care of the execution of the filter. A

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor
Hi, John: "Now there is the issue of trying to activate/deactivate the interval so it only runs when needed." It will stop when the qualification is no longer met. ($FIELDLABEL$ = "myfieldlabel") There is no need for an Active Link guide. I tested it without one. It starts and stops as desir

Re: Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
Well, there are defaults that come with the connector... but I have API logging on the server and am not even seeing netcool attempt the login, even though the netcool adapter says "connected sucessfully" The schema provided with netcool has been imported, and is named correctly -- and the netc

Re: Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
We have portmapper, and fixed TCP. Netcool is using the AR_TCP_PORT setting, just to rule out portmapper weirdness Netcool logs show sucessful connection, but it shows the same message when we put in a bogus server name. We've opened a netcool ticket... -- Tony Worthington [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Error while creating a view form (ORA-00904)

2007-01-30 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Have you tried creating a true Oracle view of the MSSQL and then creating the view form on that Oracle view Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bezhenar, Dmitry Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:57

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Reiser, John J
Rick, Is it that much of a performance hit if the SET fields is done on the CURRENT SCREEN of the AL? I mean, there should be no DB request for this action and anything that would process a count would use some CPU time. Correct? John J. Reiser Software Development Analyst Remedy Administrator/

ARLogAnalyzer output

2007-01-30 Thread Thad Esser
Hello, I haven't had much occasion to use the log analyzer very much, and I want to make sure I'm interpreting the results correctly as part of thread tuning. In determining if I need to increase my threads, which column is more important, the "AVG Idle Time" or the "MIN Idle Time"? I can see

Re: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread Wheeler, Dylan
hah, Today must be queue clearing day. I got the same thing on a ticket I opened on the 19th that hasn't been touched. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Watson, Benjamin A. Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:12 AM

Re: CMDB 2.01 supported with Helpdesk 6.0 Application?

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
I bet you're right about that, Roger. I agree that they didn't anticipate that so many customers would see ITSM 7 and say "...not so much - we'll stick with v6." If they had asked the customers or consultants, we could have told them that would happen. More BMC arrogance, in thinking they k

Re: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
Perhaps BMC should update its web page to more accurately describe for us their definition of various terms which we've come to believe mean apparently different things. Just to be sure that the expectations of those in the real business world are in line with what BMC feels is reality. I would p

FW: Error while creating a view form (ORA-00904) - SOLVED

2007-01-30 Thread Bezhenar, Dmitry
I've found a workaround by myself. (-: Only upper-case columns are visible this way. Thank you. Kind Regards / C ? Dmitry Bezhenar From: Bezhenar, Dmitry Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:57 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: Error while creat

Re: Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Dumb question: Do your ar server running with tcp port? What does the netcool logs say? -- Jarl On 1/30/07, Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone had any success using the linux Netcool 7.1 v5.1 adapter against an ARS 7.0.1 server? We've tried both the 6.3 and 7.0.1 api's and

Re: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread strauss
Hey, if they were using ITSM 7, you would find that all of your requests were not only Status=New but stuck "In Process", meaning that they failed to create incidents and are stuck in the system. BTW, when that happens, a transaction rollback just took place on your SQL database server! In your cas

Firing a filter with arsperl

2007-01-30 Thread Tom L
Does anyone know how to fire an AR filter using arsperl? I have a webform that is submitting data. I created a filter to encrypt the data from one field and I need to fire the filter from arsperl. Any comments would be appreciated. We're running ARS 6.3 and Iarsperl 1.83. Thanks in advance __

Re: Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Joe DeSouza
Have you written the filter that is supposed to write a direct sql to the netcool's table within the AR System database? I forget the default name of that table.. Joe D'Souza Remedy Developer / Consultant, BearingPoint, Virginia. - Original Message From: Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PR

Re: Apple Safari Web Interface

2007-01-30 Thread Gene Ushinsky
Thanks to all who replied to my post. I guess we can hope that with Safari 3.0 (Leopard) Remedy support will come back to Mac OS X. Gene > From: John Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: J System Solutions Limited > Reply-To: > Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general > Date: Tue, 30 Jan

Error while creating a view form (ORA-00904)

2007-01-30 Thread Bezhenar, Dmitry
Hello List, I've set up a connection between ORACLE and MS SQL server using tg4msql. Now I'm trying to create a view form directly on the MS SQL table ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) After clicking on the "LOAD" button it shows me the list of fields and I choose the unique identifier. When I click the "C

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor
My bad, the solution below had already been given in one way or another. Sorry, not caught up on my email, yet. Michelle From: Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:47 AM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: Workflow Hi, PL.Sa

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Was this release tested? No sarcasm intended. A customer should reasonably expect that before QA (Quality Assurance) gets their hands on a patch that the "release" would be finalized and any problems that QA finds would be fixed (and spawn a new release set to be retested by QA) before it is rel

Re: Email Notifications not working

2007-01-30 Thread Remedy Developer
Hi Michael, Thanks for the information. That is what I am also doubtful abt. I would surely check abt. that. Rgds., Frank On 1/22/07, Luttmann, Michael W Ctr 21 SCS/SCBBN < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would check with your Exchange administrator(s) and make sure that the Exchange Ser

Re: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread Watson, Benjamin A.
Amen! You're preaching to the chior brother. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Worthington Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:21 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: (ISS, 3-Medium) SupID:XX (rant) I love these ticke

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I still can't get it to work on Windows even with the newer files. For some reason it doesn't try to log in to the database using ARAdmin and instead seems to pass a null value to SQL Server. Hopefully support gets back to me with a solution because it would be nice to have enough confidence in t

Re: CMDB 2.01 supported with Helpdesk 6.0 Application?

2007-01-30 Thread Roger Justice
I think it is due to the fact that since they decided to re-design the whole thing and did not anticipate having it work with 6 that they left out datapoints and workflow logic that 6 uses and now they have to re-invent the wheel. I would think that the Remedy Sales holdovers would have suggeste

How to build your own applications....

2007-01-30 Thread Jarl Grøneng
From the document: http://www.bmc.com/userworld/vancouver/assets/sessions/ARSI-201_Building_Your_Own_BMC_Remedy_AR_System_v7_Applications.pdf ›Do you really need 1,000 fields on that form? ›If a field is never visible, don't put it in view. ›Use temporary fields wisely, and don't be afraid of re

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
Again, there is a performance price for the Interval, especially if multiple users will be doing it at the same time. If it's a price that you can pay, then go for it. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J Sent

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Opela, Gary L Contr OC-ALC/ITMA
It is still being released :-) _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh ** When was this patch released?

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Well it does have to do with April 1st of this year (Since that is the date that DST would have changed in 2007) if that helps Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Re: BUW 2007 - two locations (Prauge/Vancouver)

2007-01-30 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Why attend the conference in Prague, its old news "Designed specifically for our customers throughout Europe, this event will feature the most popular sessions from BMC UserWorld 2006 San Francisco." -- Jarl On 1/30/07, Tony Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.bmc.com/userwo

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor
Hi, PL.Saravanan: I have a suggestion, but it might be a performance killer. Create an active link that fires on Interval every 3 seconds, where $FIELDLABEL$ = "my field", that sets your counter field with the length of the text. Or, with the Field Size - length of the current text. Exampl

Netcool 7.1 + ARS 7.0.1 ?

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
Has anyone had any success using the linux Netcool 7.1 v5.1 adapter against an ARS 7.0.1 server? We've tried both the 6.3 and 7.0.1 api's and neither work. I have on API and user logging, and there are no connection attempts from netcool. I won't go into specifics as this will quickly drift to

OT- CMDB 2.01 supported with Helpdesk 6.0 Application?

2007-01-30 Thread Sanford, Claire
All I can really contribute to this conversation is that I absolutely 100% hate the CMDB. It makes adding fields to the asset records a real PITA! In an environment where we have all been used to being able to customize to the needs of our organizations, this is cumbersome and clunky. It dra

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Axton
When was this patch released? Axton On 1/29/07, Shellman, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As you stated the installer files have not changed it's the addition of files in the files directory. It only effects those that want to copy the binaries and library files. For folks that downloaded

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Reiser, John J
Darshana, Rick, Dan & Saravanan, The enhancement request for the full client and the Midtier would be great but there is an alternative with AL workflow and the interval. Granted it has a minimum of 3 seconds but you could fire a set fields on interval that counts the length of the current field

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Ponzo
I thought of one way to make the counter work...you can use an active link that fires on gain focus of the field and on a 3 second interval and sets your counter field based on the LENGTH() function. I haven't thought about it long enough to figure out how to stop the active link once the inter

Re: CMDB 2.01 supported with Helpdesk 6.0 Application?

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
I know what they did, Roger. I'm just not sure why it's taking so long for them to tell us how to do the conversion/mapping. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 3:57 PM To: arsli

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Rick Cook
The bottom line is that it would have to be something that resided on the client. Can you imagine the client/server traffic involved if it had to have workflow or a DB trigger update a field every time a character was typed? Perhaps the easiest workaround would be to size your field to exactly t

Re: User permissions

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Cantatore
I can think of two ways to do this. - One, you make the field public and enforce permissions through workflow. - Two, you keep the current permissions on the field you have and create another hidden field with public permissions where you mirror the value of the original field. Modify your n

arimportcmd

2007-01-30 Thread Ramón Zaragoza García
Hello, I am using arimportcmd in an escalation and it Works when the file is in the remedy Server, but when the file is in another machina not in local it doesn't work and the log has the next message: Specified import file is not a regular text file. f:\zto_0002.csv Loading Mapping

Re: User permissions

2007-01-30 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Colin, One option is to have workflow compose the data into a field that the user does have access to. (So that for that record, and for the transaction of the Submit/Modify, the user has access to the data via an authorized path provided by workflow.) You could also opt to convert your "Notify"

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Carter, Craig J Civ ARPC/DPD
Just use an active link that fires on interval and set to lowest value (3). It's next to the button action. You can outrun it if you type fast but we're dynamically updating text fields based on entries in other fields and it works great. It may work for you. //SIGNED// CRAIG J. CARTER

Re: BUW 2007 - two locations (Prauge/Vancouver)

2007-01-30 Thread Kern, Robert SBA
Europe : "this event will feature the most popular sessions from BMC UserWorld 2006 San Francisco" So, now we Europe's will get the slides shown that we already downloaded, right ? Nice :-) Suppose Praque is well worth a visit though. Cheers, Robert -Original Message- From: Action Re

OT: (ISSXXXXXXXX, 3-Medium) SupID:XXXXXX (rant)

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
I love these ticket updates from support. The ticket is still in "New" status (having been submitted 01/18/07) and there are no updates (other than my original submission) except the following message: BMC Customer Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/30/2007 07:44:05 AM: > Dear Tony, >

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Daniel Bloom
I would suggest submitting it as an enhancement request. Rick Cook replied back in November with "** You could possibly do it in a View field, using either some OLE or Java function. That would be my best guess. I can't think of any native ARS way to do it. Rick I concur or It so

BUW 2007 - two locations (Prauge/Vancouver)

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
http://www.bmc.com/userworld/ BMC UserWorld 2006 in San Francisco generated enormous excitement throughout the IT community. It was the most comprehensive user event BMC has ever produced, with over 200 technical and business sessions, keynotes by BMC executives and industry luminaries, a full

User permissions

2007-01-30 Thread Colin Love
Hello, We have recently upgraded to v7 of ARS (from v4.0!!) which was done via a new install. Obviously lots of things have changed between the two versions, but there is one thing I dont seem to be able to nail. We are intending to use mid-tier to allow users to submit and review their own ti

Re: CI Viewer - CMDB Libraries are not available?

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Worthington
Hear hear. I just had to do this exact thing yesterday. Someone call him. :-) -- Tony Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 262-703-5911 John Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" 01/30/2007 02:57 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arsli

Re: Workflow

2007-01-30 Thread Saravanan Palaniappan
Did any one found solution for the question below With Regards PL.Saravanan BTGS EXPEDIO FM | Team Virtusa (Chennai ATC) | Ph: +44-42002700 Extn: 3279 | Mobile : 99404-08691 .Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ma

Re: Apple Safari Web Interface

2007-01-30 Thread John Baker
Carey, Actually, you're wrong. Safari is probably more standards compliant than IE - it's built on the KHTML rendering engine. It's not hard to make something work with all browsers, bearing in mind that all browsers deviate from the standards in some way. BMC have simply chosen not to, I ass

Re: CI Viewer - CMDB Libraries are not available?

2007-01-30 Thread John Baker
Hello, I often wish a complete set of API libraries for all platforms was readily available. I tire of putting together a set by pulling apart installation sets. Given the sheer amount of C libraries shipped with the Java jars, it's becoming increasingly difficult to figure out what's relevant