Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread George Treisbach
Subject: Building a Demonstration Laptop Any recommendations from the list on what makes up a good demonstration Laptop ?? Memory ?? Database ?? Remedy licensing ?? Thanks in advance. George T. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread Roger Justice
For ITSM 7 Laptop: the faster the better Memory: 4GB or more Database: whatever you are comfortable with, Oracle does have a free version Remedy Licensing: Negotiate with sales be sure you have at least 3 fixed licenses for each application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread John Kovalcik
All, We are having an issue with performance across the pond to our India location. Currently, we have one HPUX server here in the States with a dedicated network line overseas. Now, granted the line is not as big as it should be and I know that Remedy is resource intensive, but is t

User Tool Crashes when printing

2007-05-17 Thread Burns, Carina
Hey listers, I did a search but didn't find anything on this potential bug (that or my search fu is weak). I have a user who is ready to go to his director and buy a vertical application rather than deal with this problem in Remedy any longer...so any help would be appreciated. The environmen

Re: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread John Sundberg
I think it depends what you are demoing. I avg about 2-3 demos/day of Kinetic Request. My environment: Dell Laptop (1 year old) - 1GB memory - Windows XP (Remedy UT 7.0, IE 6) + VMWare Player My Remedy: VM Linux Oracle 10 Unicode ARS 7 Mid-Tier Kinetic Request web engine Configured to use 534MB

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The AR System is not resource intensive. Some applications may be though, in one way or the other. My experience is that bandwidth is typically not the problem in situations like this. It is the number of calls between the client and the server rather than the amount of data in the transactio

FW: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread Heider, Stephen
There was a brief discussion on the List about a year ago right after ARS 7 and ITSM 7 were released with their new licensing scheme. I think it would be great to have a demo notebook with most or all of the ARS 7 family of products. If you purchased all the regular licenses then it would prob

CMDB issue while adding Attributes

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Duer
Hello all, I have a very vexing problem that we haven't been able to solve for weeks. We're running Remedy 6.3 with the Asset App and the CMDB 1.1 Patch 4. We're trying to add new attributes at the BMC_ASSETBASE level, but after about 25 minutes of running the arcmdbd process dies with a

Re: FW: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread Will Du Chene
Actually, I really, really wish that they would produce a developer-only version of their software, including not just the core technology, but the applications as well. Lots of other companies do exactly this, including Microsoft. For all the grief that I give those guys at expos, I have to ad

Re: CMDB issue while adding Attributes

2007-05-17 Thread Roger Justice
I had an error occur with CMDB 2 that may help. Be sure that the datasae name of the field you are adding is unique. If the name is on any CMDB form the adding of the attribute will fail similar to what you are seeing. I was able to review the error log in version 2 to tell me where it failed.

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread L. J. Head
I don't know if this applies to you but I have been told via the list that if you have a slow link between client and server and are using Mid-Tier that you can place a mid-tier the other side of the link (client side) and although the initial caching will be slow, overall speed to the clients will

Re: FW: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
I have heard that the idea has some support within BMC, but I don't know how close to being implemented it is, or even if it will be. I agree that it's penny wise and pound foolish of BMC to not allow this. Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mai

Re: New Atlanta 5.0 - Database based session management

2007-05-17 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi Boris, I know we use New Atlanta in midtier but the packet-size is too large and remedy is very susceptible to packet-drops and now we have decided to get rid of new Atlanta and use tomcat engine for that. Have you considered using tomcat? Neel Gautam Accenture - Chicago Delivery Centr

Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hello fellow listers, In application we use, we have an extensive use of email in our application and I want to make sure that users are entering valid email addresses as we have about 5-10 email errors/day with users entering invalid email address (with special characters or white-space in email-

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
Ther tha codig a calla Thanks-n-advance; HDT Platform Incident / Problem Manager & Architect Robert Molenda IT OS PA Tel: +1 408 503 2701 Fax: +1 408 503 2912 Mobile: +1 408 472 8097 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality begins with your actions. -Original Message- From: Action Request Syst

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
Thanks-n-advance; HDT Platform Incident / Problem Manager & Architect Robert Molenda IT OS PA Tel: +1 408 503 2701 Fax: +1 408 503 2912 Mobile: +1 408 472 8097 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality begins with your actions. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSLis

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
Sorry for my first 2 replys, the keyboard was stuck somehow and Micro$oft LookOut(tm)(c) was doing strange things... Other than coding a run-process-api call, you are stuck with putting in a bunch of [set] $source$ = REPLACE($source$,"bad_char","") in an AL/Filter. Been there-Done-that unfortunat

Re: What does this error mean?

2007-05-17 Thread Vyom Labs - ITSM Support
Hi Neel, This protocol error occurs when the client and the server's protocol definitions do not match. That means your 'AR System portmapper' is not started OR your 'Remote Procedure Call'(RPC) is not started. RPC provides End point mapper and other miscellaneous RPC services.Please check

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Sean Garrison
I have done this via several means ... one is via a arfilter api that is out there (I think it is called arfperl) ... the other is via a Run process command to a set fields action... Set Fields to a temp field @@:$PROCESS$ /pathtoperlscript/script.pl There is also a java arfilter api out

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Inside ARS itself you have the standard REPLACE, SUBSTR, STRSTR type of commands. Depending on what database you are using you can leverage it's regular expressions ability. i.e. Using Oracle 10 if I want to strip all punctuation characters from a character field (we will call it zStrTemp) and r

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
I have heard the "Remote Mid-Tier Rumor" as well, and honestly have tested it internally and it seems to not hold true, at least for our environment(s). We have 6.3 servers (DEV/TEST/PROD) in NA/EU/AP and when I point the NA web server to AP/EU, it seems just as slow as using the native client.

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Carey Matthew Black
There is also a "Java Scripting Plugin" that would let you use Java code from a Filter API call. You should be able to find them (the Java/Perl Filter Plugins) on the community download site. -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread John Atherly
Has anyone used Riverbed? John Atherly American Power Conversion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401-789-5735 Ext. 2120 1-800-788-2208 Ext. 2120 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers

Direct URL firing workflow

2007-05-17 Thread Suwanski, Ron
Hi all, I am trying to simply users taking the survey in Remedy. I have a direct URL to bring me to the RR:SurveyResponseDialog, but the table is empty. Any Ideas on how I can get that table populated from the SHR:Survey. Thanks. Ron Suwanski Remedy Administrator / Developer DeVry

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread Shellman, David
There has been some testing in house with Riverbed for other applications. It was noted that the compression helped reduce bandwidth issues. It was also noted that compression does not help solve latency issues that are inherent with wide area networks and communicating half way around the globe.

Re: Authenticating via Kerberos

2007-05-17 Thread Geoffrey Endresen
I'm interested in this one also. We have a requirement for Kerberos also. -Geoff Endresen Amazon.com On 5/16/07, William Rentfrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** I've never done this and I now have the need to do it - I seem to remember reading it was possible but I do not have the information i

JOB :: CMDB/Discovery :: Contract USA

2007-05-17 Thread Rachel Kerwick
Hello List, I hope you are all well. I have a contract of 8-10 weeks starting asap in the US with the following skillset requirements: :: CMDB v2 :: Topology/Discovery v1.4 Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be suitable. If you are not based in the US but wo

Re: Suppressing ARWARN 1203 Message

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
Are you really-really sure you want to suppress the whole error message for EVERYONE on the server? The message is: This record has been updated by another user since you retrieved it. Which means that if you disable this message, you are disabling this checking for everyone. Probably n

Re: Authenticating via Kerberos

2007-05-17 Thread William Rentfrow
And yes - I know it's the AREA LDAP for authentication - I just always confuse the two :) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Endresen Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Su

Re: Suppressing ARWARN 1203 Message

2007-05-17 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
One long-standing trick to suppress the 1203 on a per-transaction basis is to use direct SQL to back up the Modified Date to the time the record was loaded into the client. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Regular Expressions in AR 7.0.01

2007-05-17 Thread Bradford Bingel
If you can execute a JavaScript function, you might be able to use this: function not_valid_email_address_string (string) { // // - // - // Review the string primitive provided a

Re: How to remove everything after a certain value in a string?

2007-05-17 Thread Opela, Gary L Contr OC-ALC/ITMA
If 'Body' = "I approve this request. STOP HERE - xx" 'tmpBody' = SUBSTR($Body$, 0, STRSTR($Body$,"STOP HERE")) I think this will work. The STRSTR($Body$,"Stop Here") should return you the index of the first letter in "Stop Here" (this is of course assuming yo

Re: Authenticating via Kerberos

2007-05-17 Thread Axton
The kerberos api is very well documented and formalized. If someone wants to write an open area plugin for this I will gladly provide the hosting for the project. This would be a fun one to write, but I am up to my eyeballs in an a new ardbc plugin at the moment. Axton Grams On 5/17/07, Willia

Re: OT:Humor - Top 10 Things Men Know About Women

2007-05-17 Thread Opela, Gary L Contr OC-ALC/ITMA
Chris, you forgot the most important. I've already learned this in my five years of being married. 11. Whatever the problem is, it's always the man's fault. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wo

Re: OT:Humor - Top 10 Things Men Know About Women

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
OK, guys, you heard Dan - let's save it for tomorrow, ok? Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Opela, Gary L Contr OC-ALC/ITMA Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:39 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT:Humor - Top 10 Things

Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Katherine Hoffner
Hi Remedy Users I have a weird problem that has just occured. When my users put in a ticket they have an option to check their locations. If it is incorrect then they change it. My users now cant do that. They get error 331. The error states that they do not have permission to change that f

Re: Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Coby West
Did you mess with the Submitter Mode at all. I think depending on the license type being used if set to Changeable, users may get this error. If set to Changeable then try setting to Locked. Coby -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Katherine Hoffner
Hmmm I am brain dead today. I cant find the submitter mode. :( On 5/17/07, Coby West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Did you mess with the Submitter Mode at all. I think depending on the license type being used if set to Changeable, users may get this error. If set to Changeable then try

Re: Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Coby West
Open Remedy Administrator, select your server and then click >File>Server Information then go to the Licenses tab. Coby -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Katherine Hoffner Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:21 AM To

Re: Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Katherine Hoffner
Ok...you are the best... My settings are on changeable. I will set it to locked. On 5/17/07, Coby West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Open Remedy Administrator, select your server and then click >File>Server Information then go to the Licenses tab. Coby -Original Message- *From:* Ac

Re: Users cant update their profile from Mid-Tier.

2007-05-17 Thread Katherine Hoffner
It worked I just want to say to everyone If this group didnt exist...Remedy would be harder to use. Everyone who uses Remedy should know about this group. On 5/17/07, Katherine Hoffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok...you are the best... My settings are on changeable. I will set it

Re: This is a Weird one

2007-05-17 Thread Steven Pataray
Hi Katherine, Sounds like someone has been developing. Is it at the logon screen or if it's after you logon what form is it on? Which ever screen it's on, I would see when the last time it was updated. It may also have the logon id of who updated it. Thanks Steve On 5/16/07, Katherine Hoffner

Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
I'm using a View form with ARDBC LDAP to get user information from Active Directory. The form connects to the LDAP/Active Directory info, and an escalation periodically pushes info from there to SHR:People. It's working fine, except: When I attempt to open the view form in Administrator, it clocks

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Axton
You are going to have to work with the vendor on this one. Sounds like what my plugin server does when my ardbc plugin overwrites memory it doesn't own. Axton Grams On 5/17/07, Ron Legters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using a View form with ARDBC LDAP to get user information from Active Dire

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
Did you increase the timeout setting to like 5 minutes? Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:00 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP You

Re: Direct URL firing workflow

2007-05-17 Thread John Kenny
Have you tried creating an active link that fires on window open of the RR:SurveyResponseDialog form to perform a Change field action that refreshes the table in ? John Kenny Burntsand Inc. Manager, Solutions Architect Office: 416-234-3837 Cell: 416-992-9913 Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
Sorry - which timeout setting would that be? Thanks, Ron Tools Admin -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with arplugin

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
The Need to Sync timout on the External Authentication tab of the Server Settings. Setting that to 300 (seconds) worked for me. Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
Found it. Rats - It's already at 300. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with arplugin and L

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread ARSList
Is your plugin set for the FQDN of your DC/domain? Try an IP address of your DC. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:21 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Problem wi

Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
OK, guys, I think my User tool is possessed or something. Before I start praying over it, I thought I'd see if a more natural cause is in play here, and/or whether anyone else had seen this happen. I am logged into ITSM 7.0.2 p3 (Incident) as a Support person, and have three windows open in AR u

Create Incident record via Email

2007-05-17 Thread Sheriff,Hussain
Thiru, Since you are creating incident records in HPD:Help Desk based on email messages, would you please explain what email messages you are trying to view? Do you mean that you would like to display the same email message that was used to create the incident? Hussain On Wed, 16 May 2007 21:31:2

Inbound Email Problem

2007-05-17 Thread Sokol, Brian
We only use email for outbound notification. I am trying to test using inbound email for ticket creation. I can not get any emails to be picked up by the Remedy Email app. I have an inbound mailbox setup using Imap. I tested the Exchange email account and it is receiving email messages but they nev

Re: Inbound Email Problem

2007-05-17 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
It sounds like your Exchange Admin has disabled IMap access to the Exchange Server Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sokol, Brian Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Eli Schilling
Ron, I had a similar issue though it didn't cause the termination errors. Even increasing the timeout to a maximum of 10 minutes didn't help. I wound up having to change my ARDBC settings to a more specific base DN. Instead of dc=domain,dc=com I used OU=users,OU=mysite,dc=domain,dc=com. I don't

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Kendhammer, Mike
Rick, I just sent an issue similar to this to BMC Support. Here's my scenario... Running UT 7.0.1 p2 as well... I have a 'Control Panel' type form with a table field on it list a number of tickets from a 'main ticketing' form. Drill-down is disabled and there is an active link that fires

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
Yup - I see the same things, Mike. If the forms are maximized, it happens - if not, it works as it should. Definite bug. I wonder what they did to break something that's always worked just fine? Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Molenda
I've seen this with V7 Patch 1..4 and BMC has a ticket open on the Admin Tool & User Tool concerning this. SW00258952 ARBDC-LDAP-Base-Dn config parameter spelled incorrectly from ARDBC LDAP Configuration form 1. DROP/BUILD BUG OCCURS IN (IF PRE-RELEASE) 7.0.1 2. STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Open ARDBC

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Kendhammer, Mike
Good question... I sent Support a .def file containing two simple forms (a regular form and a display-only form with a table field that points to the regular form) and an active link that fires on return/dbl-click on the table field plus and .arx file with a few records in the regular form to u

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
See, that's the weird part. I assumed that an AL was doing that, and turned on the logs to find out which one - the logs were completely empty of any workflow mention. I'm going to try to find the AL that's doing the original Window open command from the console and see if changing the window dis

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-17 Thread Rick Cook
OK, something is definitely borked. Here's what I did to test this: Opened up the HPD:COI:Details_100_OpenIVR Active Link. It is the only AL associated with, and that fires on, the View button on the Incident Console, and it opens the selected record - IN A DETAIL WINDOW ONLY. So, to test that

ADM:Test Please Ignore

2007-05-17 Thread Daniel Bloom
timing test 8:31pm EST [brought to you by someone that has chewed up 1.5 gig of disk space and hits the web pages every second] ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answe

Re: Create Incident record via Email

2007-05-17 Thread Thirumavalavan Muthusamy NCS
Hi Hussain, 1) We don't want to replicate the file attachments. Hence, the attachments are to be left in the email and to make a relationship between email and the incident record. 2) 'Service Desk' requirement to view the original email. Regards Thiru ___

Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-17 Thread Emad Zaky
Scott, Yes you are right. A lot of the people involved with Maximo are ex-Remedy(BMC) especially from sales and marketing. IBM's product and service portfolio still represents a challenge though, since they have a global alliance with BMC and historically they have been, and still are ( http://w

Re: Create Incident record via Email

2007-05-17 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi Thiru, We have done the EXACT same thing except we don't send formatted emails, as customers denied to send formatted emails. We use free form emails. However, what we have done the following to achieve exactly what you desire: 1) We have added a field on 'AR System Email Messages'

Re: Remedy performance Overseas

2007-05-17 Thread Emad Zaky
I have faced slowness issues on the mid-tier HPUX some time ago. I applied the settings on article KM-00018220 and it really worked well. I also remember a great white paper on how to improve and measure mid-tier performance, but I can't find it in the dark, dark depths of the new support web

To add user in a group on basis of a flag in "ORACLE"

2007-05-17 Thread Nidhi_Cheeku
We have an application in which we have some data from ORACLE through feed run.In this data there is a column "Title".Now, if the title of that person is "A",then i want to set a particular flag in 'ORACLE'.For a particular user, if the flag is set in 'ORACLE',then that user needs to be added in a

Muralidhar Paidikondala/AEPIN is out of the office on 05/18/07.

2007-05-17 Thread Murali Paidi
I will be out of the office starting 05/18/2007 and will not return until 05/21/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. Pl. contact Joe Mazurowski (200-1477) if you need any assistance. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or acc

ARSPHP for Windows

2007-05-17 Thread Simon Beach
Hi All. I'm trying to locate an ARSPHP version for Windows. Does anyone have a copy compiled for the windows environment (rather than Unix). Thanks. Regards, Simon Beach Systems Architect ___ UNSUBSCRI

Re: Midtier using RPC but ars is not configured to

2007-05-17 Thread Enrique Palazuelos
I was not suscribed to arslist, I´ve been registered and I hope anyone can see my post now. Thanks a lot. Enrique Palazuelos wrote: > > Hello, > > This is my first post, please excuse my terrible english. > > We have an ars server and a midtier server connected to. The ars server is > config