speed up import of data (ars v 7.0.1 patch3)

2008-10-02 Thread Taylor
Hi all, We are currently trying to import about 600,000 records using the import tool and it seems extremely slow and gets slower as the imported records get higher. I had started the process at 3pm and at 5pm it was at 10% but left it overnight and now it's only at 24%. There are no processes

Re: What's going on with TuringSMI?

2008-10-02 Thread Chapman, Gary
Wow, I was not expecting this to get heated when I first sent the question to the list. Thanks to everyone who has replied both on and off list, your help has been appreciated. Unfortunately we were told point blank that we could not renew support as BMC would not accept it via Turing SMI.

Re: Optional Categorization for Incident Management 7

2008-10-02 Thread Kristina Hartman
Hi. I'm new, we're not yet live, but we're almost there. We use operational and product categorization extensively in our routing rules. If people want their tickets to go somewhere sensible quickly, they're going to have to put in the categorization. Likewise management really wants good

Re: speed up import of data (ars v 7.0.1 patch3)

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Caruso
You might try reming any indexes before importing. Add them back when the import finished On Oct 2, 2008, at 4:56 AM, Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Hi all, We are currently trying to import about 600,000 records using the import tool and it seems extremely slow and gets slower as the

Re: Attachment pools

2008-10-02 Thread Sullivan, Neil G CTR USAF AFRL/RYOD
I used at Run Process and the API - Perform-Action-Add-Attachment for each attachment I wanted to add. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SYTANGCO,JENARO Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:41 PM To:

Re: Currency Field Push - AST:Asset

2008-10-02 Thread Icarus4
Hello, You need to either change your calculation to include the currency (which looks weird I agree) this way: $Tax Rate$/100 USD * $Unit Price.VALUE$ However the result may not be the one expected (currency code get set to a different one) Or the easiest way I guess is to create a new hidden

Re: What's going on with TuringSMI?

2008-10-02 Thread Bradford Bingel
Still no confirmation . . . apologies for the (apparent) false alarm _ From: Bradford Bingel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:00 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: What's going on with TuringSMI? Heard a rumor that TuringSMI's BMC/Remedy unit was

Re: Business Objects

2008-10-02 Thread Sokol, Brian
This sage continues with BMC saying this is a Business Objects problem and BO saying it is a BMC problem. By default we are using the DHTML viewer. You are forced to use an activex print control. That is what is failing. The BO server is using SSL and BMC feels that may be causing a problem. The

Re: Incoming Email problem

2008-10-02 Thread Jackie Morris
There are no space issues. I can send the same two .pdf files as attachments independently on different emails and I can send multiple attachments on other emails. I can't see what is causing this on this type of attachment. I will turn on logging and look there-I am always reluctant to stop

Re: Web Service Error

2008-10-02 Thread Wangler, Dan
Fred Again, thanks for the information. Tried making the change but got the same error. We are going over the WL logs to see if we can find out what it objects to. Dan Wangler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Andre Salsa
Hello list, I'm facing some issues when I set approvers manually, on the Change approvers tab, or using the Approval Engine Run process method. What happens is: - I create the change as draft, add an approver (the user has the approval role) on the Change approvers tab, and refresh the table to

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
There is a bug with the Approval server that is released with AR System 7.01 patch 008. We noticed the same problem where mapped approvals would work but ad-hoc added approval signatures were ignored and actually marked Closed (rather than approved) We tried going down the path of upgrading to

Business Times and an Escalation

2008-10-02 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Can you use business time calculations in the run-if line for a filter? I need to create a filter that will warn when we are close to exceeding the SLA limit. The problem I'm running into, is that if I just do straight calculation, that's on a 24/7 clock. One of my groups is only on a 10hr/5 day

SAP and Remedy Client Conflicts

2008-10-02 Thread VanSickle, James W
Fellow ARSListers Has anyone seen any conflicts or problems with running SAP and Remedy clients on the same desktop? I am still working on an issue I posted about earlier with the Remedy client crashing due to the mshtml.dll file. While Remedy client 7.0.1 Patch 7 and above

Re: SAP and Remedy Client Conflicts

2008-10-02 Thread Shellman, David
James, We use SAP here at Tyco Electronics. Just recently the powers that be deemed that every computer should have the SAP client installed on it. We have not heard of any conflicts and we have a mixture of 6.3, 7.0.01, and 7.1.0 AR System desktop client. Not sure which version of the SAP

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
According to my coworker who followed up with BMC on this bug, the SW bug number is SW00304316. As far as we know BMC is trying to expedite a solution for this but I have not heard if they have made any progress with getting a bug fix for this in any patch for ARS 7.01. Thanks Peter Lammey

Re: Business Times and an Escalation

2008-10-02 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
I was afraid of that, thanks. Gary -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:37 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Business Times and an Escalation ** You will need

ARS - Database Change

2008-10-02 Thread Jase Brandon
Hello All, I think this is an easy question, but with the server information moved to the Client with 7.1, I am not sure how to answer this. We are going to be doing an install on our dev server for Asset and Change. A request has been made to copy our database over to a test server, and point

Re: ARS - Database Change

2008-10-02 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE
Microsoft SQL? Easy -- detach database, copy database files, attach database on new server. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jase Brandon Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:08 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Change Management Task Issue

2008-10-02 Thread Wong, Corey A
We have a random issue with Change Management tasks where a Change Request will get into a Planning in Progress status and the Change Tasks are not activated. What I mean by that is usually after the Change is approved it activates the first change task to Assigned. If you close that task then

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Andre Salsa
So, now you are using the patch 007? 2008/10/2 Lammey, Peter A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** According to my coworker who followed up with BMC on this bug, the SW bug number is SW00304316. As far as we know BMC is trying to expedite a solution for this but I have not heard if they have made any

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
No. Actually we backed out and were recommended by BMC to go back to a pre-release patch 005 of AR System. Thanks Peter Lammey ESPN IT Client Architecture and Automation 860-766-4761 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: ARS - Database Change

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Irrespective to what database it is, you can backup and restore the database to the new location/database server. Having done this, reconfigure the ar.conf or ar.cfg file depending on what OS you are on, to have your ARS to point to the new database.. Make sure that the ARADmin password is the

Re: speed up import of data (ars v 7.0.1 patch3)

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Disable all Merge filters (IF YOU DO NOT REQUIRE THEM TO FIRE - Check what they are designed for before disabling them). If the Merge filters are designed to create child records somewhere else which are vital for your application to work correctly, then it would not be advisable to disable

Re: Attachment pools

2008-10-02 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Your logic should work. As long as the New record knows the ID of the Source record you should be able to do a standard Set Fields reading data from the Source record to copy the attachments over to the New record. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Page
Andre Have you tried changing the -1 option from 0 to 1, we had problems with a add-sig process not working and it turned out to be this value, there is very little explanation of what independent Yes or independent No means but it does have an impact. Regards Robert - Original

Re: Problems with Change Approvals on ITSM patch 08

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Page
Andre Have you tried changing the -1 option from 0 to 1, we had problems with a add-sig process not working and it turned out to be this value, there is very little explanation of what independent Yes or independent No means but it does have an impact. Regards Robert - Original

Re: Optional Categorization for Incident Management 7

2008-10-02 Thread Phillips, Richard I CTR USA
How about using Incident Templates to set the cats for you? rp -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristina Hartman Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:08 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Optional

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread sivarama velicheti
Hi Lisa, It seems weird but I am not able to solve that problem. Thanks for your help. But now I am facing a different problem. when I try to enable the relationship from the delete status it gives me an error message saying As a member of the application Data Admin group for this

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread sivarama velicheti
Hi Lisa, Never mind. I was able to change from the delete status to the proposed and that's how I have enabled them. Thanks Siva ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:

Re: SQL Delete - Slow on Import - Thoughts

2008-10-02 Thread Tanner, Doug
Thanks Joe, Same sized table and beefier Prod Boxes :-) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:34 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: SQL Delete - Slow on

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
This error is a result of the filter CFG:CTA:ChkStatusRule_106 What I find odd is that the message on my filter that throws that very same filter message is a little different... Have you modified this out of the box filter? I'm assuming you are using ARS 7.1 with ITSM 7? Joe - Original

Administrator privileges corruption error, I think

2008-10-02 Thread Drake,Dave
We patched our ARS 7.0.1 p007 (ITSM 7.0.1 p003) servers to ITSM 7.0.3 p007 last night. No errors were reported during the patch install (or none worthwhile). However, after patching, opening the Admin tool displays an error indicating that no active link guides can be loaded, and indeed are

Re: SQL Delete - Slow on Import - Thoughts

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
Are your transaction logs full or getting there? Try flushing them. Joe - Original Message From: Tanner, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2008 2:04:03 PM Subject: Re: SQL Delete - Slow on Import - Thoughts ** Thanks Joe, Same sized table and

Dave Wallace is out of the office.

2008-10-02 Thread David Wallace
I will be out of the office starting 10/02/2008 and will not return until 10/03/2008. I will be OOO until 10.03 If you need immediate assistance then email SMT-ProdEng. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread sivarama velicheti
Hi Joe, No This is the default error message and I have not modified it in any way and yes I am on ARS 7.1 patch 3 and ITSM 7. May be its due to the patch that the error differs? Just a guess. Thanks Siva

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
What patch of ITSM are you on? I am on ARS patch 3 and ITSM patch 7.. The ARS patch should not make that much of a difference, its the ITSM patch that is likely to modify any ITSM related workflow if any.. Joe - Original Message From: sivarama velicheti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread Lisa Westerfield
According to the filter logs you sent me, the 2 filters I described are exactly what is throwing the initial error you were receiving. Glad to hear you were able to move past it - that's the important part! Have a great day, LisaD From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
An easier way to find a filter or an AL that displays an error or warning message is running the query select name from filter where filterid in (select filterid from filter_message where msgnum = ); OR if the message is from an AL select name from actlink where actlinkid in (select

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread sivarama velicheti
Thanks Joe for the queries, this would make my life a lot easier. I am on ITSM patch 3 and that might be the reason I am getting a different error message. Thanks Siva ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: SLM 7.1 Install on AIX troubles

2008-10-02 Thread Oscar Herrera
Thanks for your responses.   I'm executing this in hummingbid's exceed.  I've made sure all of the suggestions have been implemented/attempted but to no avail.   BMC is indicated this is an install shield issue.   This customer had the same issue called into BMC back in 2006 when installing slm

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread sivarama velicheti
Thanks Lisa for your help and yes the filter logs you said are the ones throwing the error. Since I was able to move past the point I wanted to look into that in greater detail at a future time. Thanks Siva ___

Task Viewer Issue

2008-10-02 Thread Begosh, Kevin
I have been getting the following error when trying to use the task viewer from a change request. Whenever I click on the task viewer button, it looks like it starts loading okay but then I get the following error Has anyone ever seen this before. Kevin Begosh, RSP mailto:[EMAIL

Re: change request error

2008-10-02 Thread Joe DeSouza
You are welcome.. Patch 3 for ITSM 7 is an extremely old build of ITSM 7 dating to more than a year ago. Probably about a year and a half old. Why don't you upgrade to the newer patches where lot of known issues have been resolved.. That doesn't mean it may resolve your current problem but you

Re: SLM 7.1 Install on AIX troubles

2008-10-02 Thread William Rentfrow
We ran into some similar problems when installing a bunch of the BMC apps on Solaris in a non-root install. We kept getting errors with bad permissions, etc. Essentially what was happening was the files /var/tmp were being locked and the permissions changed so the installer no longer had rights

Re: SLM 7.1 Install on AIX troubles

2008-10-02 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Are you starting on a Windows box using Exceed (and telling it who to log in as) or starting on the Unix server which opens an XWindow (and Exceed is the xServer on your Windows PC). If you are doing the former, try modifying the login profile of the user you connect to the Unix server as. Put

Re: Change Management Task Issue

2008-10-02 Thread Mahesh Chandra
The Task template or Task Group template sequence must be set in that way i.e. Task 1 is a predecessor of Task 2 or Task 2 is predecesor of Task 1. Mahesh On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Wong, Corey A [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ** We have a random issue with Change Management tasks where a