Regarding the first question (1.) where the requester gets no write
access when opening a change request
we found that requester does not get this error when viewing the
Tasks.
The second question (2.) , we accept this to be an educational issue
where to find the infrormation.
(3.) We seem to
We creating them, not importing SLA. And yup, we have problems when
creating. The problem is, After all SLAs are done creating, brsvcbrie
service is always stop every one or two hours.
I had to make scheduler to start the service that runs every two hours
to keep the service runs.
And after a
Hi
Actually we have two AR Systems v6.3 using same database Oracle 9i. I
searched their Configuration settings in ar.conf and found similar
values for Db-name, Db-user, Dbhome-directory and Oracle-Two-Task in
both AR systems. But some of our document suggesting that we are using
different IP
You can check if you are pointing to different server or not by checking the
System ID in the database tab of server information window.
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Actually we have two AR Systems v6.3 using same database Oracle 9i. I
searched their
Hi Rakshit,
I already checked for it. System ID is not having any value.
Regards,
Tarun
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John,
THANK YOU so much. With all the great ideas presented, this one will
require only a minimum of my time and is just the sort of solution I was
hoping to find. As a side bar, I will make a second filter to ensure
that every form is at least touched during that week.
To EVERYONE who
ARS 6.3 patch 20, ITSM 6.0, CMDB 1.1 patch 4, Asset Management patch 1470.
All the currency-field default values in form BMC:BMC_AssetBase have been
wiped out. We are trying to find out why.
The values were, essentially, 0.00 USD.
The currency fields in other forms, such as
Hello,
Can any SQL guru's tell me how to fix this? Thanks
The transaction log for database 'ARSystemdev' is full. To find out why
space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in
sys.databases
Welton Bryant MCSE,MCP
Sr. Business Applications Analyst
If I understand correctly, you're saying you have two different
remedy servers, which are apparently pointing at the same database
(based on ar.conf), but which your documentation says should be
connecting to different machines ?
If this is the case, check the tnsnames.ora on each of your
Truncate the transaction log in query analyzer. Then set up a process
to backup the database each night with a step in that job that truncates
the log before the backup process.
DBCC SHINKFILE (arsystem_log,100mb,TRUNCATEONLY) press F5 key.
arsystem_log is the name of your arsystem log file,
Forgot
Backup your database first in Enterprise Manager first. Just in case.
I don't know your environment.
Rob
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Thanks Joe. I went back and reread the SQL books online and say that my
syntax was wrong. I didn't need to specify TRUNCATEONLY if I pass it a
file size.
Rob
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We are facing a strange issue related to ActiveLinks being attached to
the field
Where ever we are trying to create a new character field on to the
Change forms
this Activelinkg Guides are bieng attached to the newly crated Field
CHG:CHG:Change_TskEffortscmdDetails04_15 ---Call Guide
Hi ArListers,
In my arerror.log file, I see the following entry 1000s of time/day.
Thu Jul 12 15:21:16 2007 390603 : : A Problem Investigation cannot be
modified after it is closed. (ARERR 1631155)
Any ideas of what could be happening?
Neel Gautam
Accenture - Chicago Delivery
You have some piece of workflow-filter or escalation-that is trying to
push a value to a closed record.
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Incidentally, my money would be on an escalation, as a filter would
present an error to a user and you'd expect someone to alert you of
this, whereas an escalation does not.
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Hi,
Regarding to this transaction log full issue, it is not how you truncate
the transaction log file but how the transaction log file
got full that interests me. We have a v7 ARS server with IM, PM, CM, SLM,
CMDB, EIE for SQL installed.
After about 6 months running, we hit the same
If you don't have a good SQL maintenance plan in place, the transaction
log just grows and grows and grows over time. The transaction log can
grow quite a bit if you run, say, an escalation or filter that modifies
1000s of records. Then do that a few days a week, and in no time the
transaction
Plus the fact that it's on 390603 which is the escalation thread...so that's
the only thing that it could be...:)
_
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Also, when you truncate a transaction log, all this does is to remove
committed database transactions from that log. It does not shrink the
physical size of the transaction log file. That's where SHRINKFILE comes
in.
Here's a link to Microsoft's support site with more info
Yes. Excellent point.
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:02 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Transaction log is full.
Also, when you truncate a transaction
A transaction log is a log of transactions-it will continue to grow over
time until it is backup up/truncated.
You need to set up a database maintenance plan to regularly backup your
database (includes the log file). Otherwise, it will continue to grow
over time until you run out of disk
Thanks Ian, added this to the ARSwiki defects:
http://bugs.arswiki.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56
Axton Grams
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Listers,
We have just had an issue with the Email Engine changed to bug status by
BMC.
Two weeks ago we upgraded our production
Listers,
We have just had an issue with the Email Engine changed to bug status by
BMC.
Two weeks ago we upgraded our production server from 6.0.1 to 7.0.01
Patch 003. Since then we have had users complaining that they are
receiving random duplicate copies of notification emails when
Good point. Guess it would have helped had I actually paid attention to
the log entry he pasted!
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Hi Andrew,
Yes you are right we can see IP details in tnsnames.ora although it
should be defined.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Tarun
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I can only release a license every 2 hours??? Is there somewhere I can
change this??? Extremely frustrated...
Thanks in advance,
Michael
The information contained in this email may be privileged, confidential or
otherwise protected from disclosure. All persons are advised that they may
Hello everyone,
Just an FYI.
'TR.Submitter' != $NULL$ would not work if you want to track the following
scenario:-
1. 'Submitter' field has a value in it and user erased the value in it and
saved it. In that case 'TR.Submitter' would be NULL even though a change
occured on that field.
Thank you, L.J., Norm, Christie and everybody who helped. I will just
investigate this further from escalation log then. I've another weird
e-mail scenario for which I shall have a separate thread :-)
Neel Gautam
Accenture - Chicago Delivery Centre
Office: 312-693-7279
Simple question, I think. Where does timestamp time come from? I have two
workstations on my desk, one my regular one with my time on the east coast.
The other a vista box, always has the wrong time and is usually colorado
time. I manually change it every day. When I submit tickets into remedy
Okay here's a weird e-mail related and it is very urgent so any help
would be highly appreciated.
A user has an email called [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a group called Security. Now when an email was sent to
Security-Japps guy, it didn't send email to him, what remedy did was it
read - and
James,
Timestamp comes from the server. You need to look at the time zone
there. Remember that each user can adjust the time that they see in
there user preferences. So someone in CA will see the time in the
Pacific Time Zone when the actual timestamp could be in say Eastern.
HTH,
Roger A. Nall
In the admin tool, highlight your server, go to File-Server
information, then the Timeouts tab. You can set it to release after one
hour, but that's as low as you can go.
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL
0 sends emails to the whole system as that's the ID of the Public group.
What version/patch of the ARS are you on by the way.. It might be worth
checking here at this site if we have email addresses that might have the
hyphen character. I'll let you know what we find out in case we have any
such
You might want to also include the Filter log..(perhaps combine the two
in a single log file). If an escalation updates a field, the filters
will fire. It won't record in the Escalation log...
J.T.
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Rajesh,
Here is my guess as to what is happening.. What you are seeing could happen
if the field you are creating has an ID that was used by a previously
deleted field, that still has workflow defined to that deleted field. So
when you create a new field with that same ID, all that old workflow
I have just applied patch 3 to a Windows box, running MidTier with
Apache Tomcat. We had modified the login.jsp and login_common.jsp in
the shared directory to use our logos, our colors, remove the
authentication box, and to lower case the login ID.
After patching, I moved back in the files
If you think about it...system messages are less than 10,000. (i.e. 93
- unable to connect)
Workflow errors are above 10,000... BMC/Remedy wouldn't be able to keep
all their system and workflow errors below 10,000...(there aren't enough
numbers if they used a unique number for every error!) ha
Michael,
Are you manually releasing the license (through the Manage Users
window) or are you relying on the timeout as noted below?
If you're manually releasing, then I believe that is a fixed value by
BMC -- an administrator can only release a specific license so many
times per duration of
I am going.
Roger A. Nall
Manager, OSSNMS Remedy
T-Mobile USA
Desk: 813-348-2556(New)
Cell: 973-652-6723
FAX: 813-348-2565
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Isn't the Submitter field a required system field? An error would
result if this field was blank.
Stephen
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Me.
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I am going.
Roger A. Nall
Manager, OSSNMS Remedy
T-Mobile USA
Me.
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Roger is correct on the $TIMESTAMP$ variable, but for things like Diary
field settings, it depends on whether the action that caused the time entry
to occur was client or server driven.
Client generated actions (i.e. in Active Links) will push the client time.
Server generated actions (Filters)
- also translates to the public group, sending out a message to all email
adresses in remedy.
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** 0 sends emails to the whole system as that's the ID of the Public
group.
What version/patch of the ARS are you on by the way.. It might be worth
We have also encountered an inconsistency with MS Vista. Specifically:
Experiment was: observe the same helpdesk record (HD 5.5) with:
- Windows UT, XP -- timestamp correct and local
- MT, IE 7.0, XP -- timestamp correct and local
- MT, IE 7.0, Vista -- timestamp reading GMT (sorry,
As well as a maximum # of times per user per week.
Chris P
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:38 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Error 297: Admin
I'm an old-timer. I remember back when the annual event wasn't called
BMC UserWorld and the focus of the event was strictly REMEDY products.
I've never been to a BMC UserWorld event and I doubt I ever will (too
expensive to be able to justify), but I'm curious as to whether folks on
this list
Thanks for sharing this info...I wasn't aware of any time-based issue
with Vista, as our environment is still 100% XP. But I just sat through
a meeting where management stated they are working to do an
enterprise-wide switchover to Vista in the not-too-distant future.
Joe,
We are running ITSM 7.0.01 patch 1 with ARS 7.0.01 patch 3 and email
engine 7.0.01 patch 3.
Neel Gautam
Accenture - Chicago Delivery Centre
Office: 312-693-7279 Mobile: 630-440-6335
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Core Values:
Stewardship
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Best
Hi Benjin,
But this is a different scenario right? The customer's email had - in
the middle and it just broke the email address and it treated part
before hypen as a group and sent email to everyone in that group. Does
this happen with all other special characters?
Neel Gautam
Accenture
It's practically in my back yard, so I'll be there.
Rick
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I'm trying to decide whether or not it is worth it to beg my management
to let me go to BMC UserWorld2007. You know... Healthcare, budget cuts,
etc...
With 5 hotels to choose from,
There may be some changes in the files you are replacing that you want, as
part of patch 3.
Did you redeploy the war? This can be done from the Tomcat management
page. How did you apply the patch?
Axton Grams
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Let me put it to you this way, Norm.
On last year's Evening with Engineering, the BMC guys were as lonesome as
the Maytag repairman, and the Remedy guys were largely swamped. There is
BMC content and attendance, but it's mostly still a Remedy focus.
I'm an independent consultant, which means
Hi List,
I hate to bring up this subject yet again, but I can't seem to find a
complete answer in most of the postings I've read. I've created a form with
a web service that uses the OpCreate method. I've had some success
consuming the web service using perl, but have not figured out how to
I won't be making it this year :( due to my boss saying no. Last years
was exciting and I got good value from it, although by the end of it I was
going to kill anyone who mentioned CMDB and federated data :).
For those going, have fun and post the high points here on the list.
Ben Cantatore
1 should have been a decent number for their system as well as core
applications and out of the box application error messages I would think..
I've always wished they had the ability of character prefixes to error
messages. It would have been nice to have a Sales order system error
messages
Use a comma between elements
my $som = $soap-OpCreate(
SOAP::Data-name('String_1' = 'a1'),
SOAP::Data-type('xsd:string')-name('String_2' = 'a2'),
SOAP::Data-name('String_5' = 'a5') );
Here is a link to the SOAP::Lite docs:
http://search.cpan.org/~byrne/SOAP-Lite-0.69/lib/SOAP/Data.pm
I did have this problem, and it was the same version and the 1412 patch, I
also when down the path of logging client side active links, and could find
nothing. Plus is was not consistent, not all users had the error on exit.
One of two solutions resolved the issue.
1. A simple uninstall and
AOL (me too) :-)
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I'm trying to decide whether or not it is worth it to beg my management
to let me go to BMC UserWorld2007. You know... Healthcare, budget cuts,
etc...
With 5 hotels to choose from, we are all going to be very
Yeah, for messages in my own workflow, I use a numbering scheme that tells
me (in the ARERR #) whether it was generated by an Active Link or Filter,
the severity, and what the run order is. Makes finding the source workflow
a TON easier. Now that we have more than 5 digits to play with, one
I guess the war file did not install itself. I cannot find very good
documentation on how to accomplish this, as the mid tier docs still
reference ServletExec. Do I just place the War file in the webapps
directory and then start Tomcat? Do I need to delete the ROOT directory
underneath this
In Remedy ITSM 7.x the form CFG:Broadcast has a view named:
CFG:Broadcast Dialog New/Modify view
This causes an error in display on the mid-tier due to the / in the
name being incorrectly encoded in the url - and hence the page does not
display.
Is anyone else using Websphere on Solaris who
I do something similar too by using the first number to denote where its
coming from (AL or Filter), the next couple of numbers for which form, and
the last few for the actual error messages.. Its a bit tricky when it comes
to shared workflow though so I have narrowed down to using the primary
Ian,
Thanks for mentioning this. Unfortunately my company has suffered from
this as well, so I'll try reverting back to patch 2.
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Thanks for the quick response Fred, but I'm still getting errors.
Here's the source:
use SOAP::Lite
trace='all'
;
my $header = SOAP::Header-name('AuthenticationInfo' =
\SOAP::Header-value(
SOAP::Header-name('userName' = $username)-type(''),
SOAP::Header-name('password' =
Thanks to everyone that responded.
I'm doing some testing using the Mid-Tier and things don't always end
like I expect them to - mostly Internet Explorer crashing in a most
spectacular fashion. Being the wily coyote that I am, I go back to the
drawing board and try again... Except I can't login
AR 7
ITSP 4.0, CMDB 1.0
If a group name is changed – what workflow needs to be
modified to ensure that the historical data is transferred to the new group
name?
We have CMDB 1.0 also. Where would I check to see if
the CIs are associated to the group?
I am
All, we are running Remedy CSS 5.6 with ARS 6.3 against an Oracle 10g backend.
When changing groups using the Console View on the Agent Console, it is taking
approx 1.5 to 2.0 minutes to return. I turn on logging and noticed it is
taking a long time querying the T287 table. This is the
Frederick,
The user in question has a User Preference recordwith the Time Zone
blank, as are most User
Preference Records in our current system(I found four NON-null Time
Zone entries, out of many
thousands of records--all the rest are null). Of course, whether the
Time Zone *should* be left
One thing to also look at are you running in production mode or dev
mode?
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Remedy CSS
Hi listers
I have an active link that sets several fields from a view form that fires
on lose focus of a field. This AL works perfectly. I'm trying to do this in
an escalation on a daily interval since the data in the view form may
change. As a test, I have the escalation set to run every 5
if you have access to your database you could try this, I use this or
variations of it if I'm having problems finding error messages.
select
Active Link as Type,
actlink.name as actlinkName,
actlink_message.msgText,
arschema.name as SchemaName
from
actlink_message,
actlink,
Marc,
MessageText: Unexpected element encountered in the input XML document
AppendedText: lt;Character_Field_1
Check your WSDL for the OpCreate method. You likely have missing
fields between 'Class' and 'Character_Field_1'. I found out the hard
way that the order of the elements appears to
In your Web Service is Character_Field_1 defined right after Class?
The error is saying that is does not expect to see the element
Character_Field_1 immediately after the Class element
MessageType: 2
MessageNum: 8962
MessageText: Unexpected element encountered in the input XML document
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
After some lengthy troubleshooting, I got an existing installation of EIE to
work on our system. While that's good, I still don't know what the following
values should look like (documentation and BMC knowledgebase, as well as
ARSList archives, are
We are trying to set workflow that when a specific date
field is exceeded a notification is sent to specific roles.
Is this a large performance hit?? Is there a way to develop
this workflow without continually polling for updates?
List,
Based mostly on the info below I created a SQL View that returns field
labels which is formatted for SQL Server 2000/2005.
The script inside the attached txt file creates one view
(uvw_ARSFieldLabels) and two supporting functions
(udf_DecodeFieldDataType, udf_DecodeFieldLabel)
To query,
Thanks for the reply Randy. The Development Cache Mode flag is not checked.
Is this what you mean?
Coby
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That's one of the issues we found, in dev cache mode it takes for ever
because it doesn't build a new cache it updates the old one, so our
server locks down for a minute or two while re-caching. In production
mode it's not supposed to do that, it will build a new cache then once
it's built switch
Coby,
You need to ask you support agents to change activities status to Deal
with in Activity form once they viewed customer activities. In Agent
console, it only displays activities with Need attention status. If
you have ton of open activities, it will take forever to loa.
This happened
Oops, we are on
ARS 6.3 - Patch 21
HD CHG AST - 6.0
W2K3
SQL2K
When PUBLIC or everyone gets an email, does the messages show up in the
email message form?
I have a few users and groups with the dashes in the name, and only one
of them do not work right now.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Shawn,
I did not find SW00271676 on BMC's website for some reason. Could you
help me out with locating the defect?
Thanks in advance.
Neel Gautam
Accenture - Chicago Delivery Centre
Office: 312-693-7279 Mobile: 630-440-6335
MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: neelgautam
We attempted an upgrade from 5.1.2 straight to 7.0.01 unsuccessfully. We
then backed out and upgraded to 6.3, then on to 7.0.01 with no problems.
On the client side, I uninstalled the 5.1.2 client first, then installed
the 7.0.01 clients.
We still have a good number of users running the 5.1.2
Send the notifications from another custom form created specifically to hold
the instanceid and the request id of the ticket, with a date set on that
form of when to notify. Maintain data on that form by updating it with any
changes on dates or schedule of the notification when your main ticket is
When PUBLIC or everyone gets an email, does the messages show up in the
email message form?
I have a few users and groups with the dashes in the name, and only one
of them do not work right now.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello Listers,
I opened a ticket with BMC Support about an issue with Modify All
clearing a Required Field on my form and throwing ARERR 326.
Then I found a list entry about SW00264343.
When I checked with BMC Support it was listed as fixed. No version
reference or any other explanation ( unless
Before we hit 100 me too's (me included)
perhaps it is time for the annual John Sundberg
question of the month: Who is going to BUW (BMC UserWorld).
I have always considered it a good investment,
both in the years it was funded for me or for the past
four where I have paid my own way.
Besides,
That reminds me.
I got a notice of your submissions have been received.
I got a notice of gosh we were swamped, we will get back to you all.
I have never gotten my usual rejection notice,
or the occasional acceptance notice, for this year.
Has anyone heard back?
... Daniel
p.s. I have been
Dear Listers,
Has anyone had created an audit trail to check who is the last person that
had login and update the helpdesk case?
I tried using last modified by but difficult to track as it will auto
changed to AR Escalator by the system.
Can someone assist on how to implement this
This is a resend, the earlier email with attached logs do not get thru :-(
Dunno why the save button do not works.
I had copied it from the HPD:Helpdesk Support view to HPD:Helpdesk ReadOnly
View.
When I double click the copied SAVE button, I can see that the related
active links are
Chris,
Don't remember exactly, but the 'Primary Capability' attribute is
probably being inherited from the System class (parent of Computer
system). Try modifying it there.
- Murtuza Bookwala
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Tomcat has an auto-deploy directory where you should place the unpacked war.
Pretty simple instructions for another app:
http://webmap.socialchange.net.au/support/documents/detail_install.html
You will want to unpack the war since the mid-tier config pages want to
write to some files
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