Re: Remedy / Maximo integration....how !

2009-01-22 Thread Sean Harrodine
Thanks for all the replies. It looks like i need to have a read up and understand about the web services element of Remedy and what it can do for me as we dont currently use it. I have previously done a similar integration but between another Remedy solution not Maximo, based around XML

Re: Mid-Tier not 64-bit in AR System 7.5.00 (was RE: ARS 7.5 Office 2007)

2009-01-22 Thread Uday Joshi
Hi David, In case I want to install midtier on Linux (32 bit) I start the installer as suggested by you but does not take me to a level where I can uncheck all other and maintain Midtier. I have a limitation in adding so I will send you those by other mail. Best Regards, Uday Joshi

Re: Mid-Tier not 64-bit in AR System 7.5.00 (was RE: ARS 7.5 Office 2007)

2009-01-22 Thread Easter, David
Hi Uday, You may have missed my follow-up E-mail on this. 32-bit Linux OS are not supported in AR System 7.5.00 - even for the 32-bit Mid-Tier. The installer itself is not 64-bit, but it checks to make sure you're on a 64-bit Linux OS. This is documented in the compatibility matrix: AR

Issues::Remedy in Load balanced environment

2009-01-22 Thread Ankur Gulati
Hi Listers, I've been assigned a task of developing a load balanced environment for our remedy infrastructure. It has become a headache now since I am stuck with few things. Here's bit of description of the architecture. We have planned for having two sites A and B, A will be Primary and B

Re: Issues::Remedy in Load balanced environment

2009-01-22 Thread Easter, David
Ankur, A good starting point would be the white paper on using a Load Balancer within an AR System environment: 06-Sep-2007 Using a Hardware Load Balancer with AR System 7.1.00 PDF http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/40/92/84092/84092.pdf Thanks, -David J. Easter Sr.

Re: View Form to external table filter question

2009-01-22 Thread YHK
Thank you both for the replies. Good call on the db trigger Fred. Gotta roll this out quickly so I'm just going with an escalation. Thank you again! Regards YHK On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com wrote: ** Or have the database trigger a call to an

To to figure out which rows are selected? + Crystal question

2009-01-22 Thread Mark Milke
Hi Listers, I have a simple ARS Form. I want to enable users to run a search, then selected / highlight a few rows in the results pane and click a button to run a Crystal Report. The question is how to figure out which rows are highlighted or selected? I need to know this to build on-the-fly the

Re: SLA missing due dates

2009-01-22 Thread Ramey, Anne
SHARE:Application Properties form should have this info. Anne Ramey E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties only by an authorized State Official. From: Action Request System discussion

ITSM 7.0.3 Approval Server

2009-01-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi everyone. Here's the issue. In our Change process, we have business users (end users with read license) who need to approve a change request. They should be able to go into the Approval Central and approve the request when they view the change and it displays the CHG:ChangeAPDetailSignature

Quick Question New Mandatory field on helpdesk form

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Iocco
If we are also using the service request module how do I ensure this field is getting populated as well when requests channel from this medium? Thanks Steve ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org

Re: ITSM 7.0.3 Approval Server

2009-01-22 Thread jham36
In order to approve a change you will need to have a fixed or floating license. Read licenses only let you submit and modify only the entries that you have submitted. I do not think that this applies here. From the documentation: Within their assigned permissions, users with Read licenses can

Re: ITSM 7.0.3 Approval Server

2009-01-22 Thread Easter, David
That's generally true, James - but there is special code within AR System and ITSM that mitigates that requirement when using an ITSM out-of-the-box application. ITSM users do not need a write license to use approval server - a business benefit of using the BMC ITSM suite. However, your

Re: ITSM 7.0.3 Approval Server

2009-01-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
David, Our forms are out of the box as well as the workflow. Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent:

Re: Quick Question New Mandatory field on helpdesk form

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Steve, Is there a possibility of setting it to some sort of a default if a null value is passed at the time of creating that record? I would look at that so that there is no chance of it being set to null.. Cheers Joe From: Steven Iocco

Re: Quick Question New Mandatory field on helpdesk form

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Iocco
Thanks Joe. Thats actually what I am looking for. TI need to know the workflow which pushes the summary definition fields or request fields to the Helpdesk Form when an incident is created to include the new value. In the summary definition form I will default it. Steve Date: Thu, 22

Re: Dynamic Window label?

2009-01-22 Thread Muhlethaler, Laurie
Thanks, Joe. Unfortunately that doesn't change the window list... On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:42:58 -0800, Joe DeSouza joe_rem...@yahoo.com wrote: Laurie, Choose the customer name as the Request Identifier in the Form - Current View - Properties. That should give each window title a distinct

Re: On Browser: How to Make a Report Based on a Join Form Availbale on Report Selection box

2009-01-22 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Joe, Reporting through ITSM 7 mechanism...yes join forms can be used. Through ARS's native mechanism, no, because the only reports that show up when users initiate reporting from a form (by clicking Report button on the Browser) is the ones tied to that form (on Report form). So I can't make a

ITSM 7: Incident Owner Set Based on Autoassignment Rule or Based on Submitter/Assignee Group?

2009-01-22 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Hi, In ITSM 7, I can set autoassignment rules for Assignee group or Owner group of Incidents. (on CFG:Assignment form) However, for Owner Group, there is also a detailed statement in the User Guide about how the Owner Group is picked by the system based on what kind of group is submitting the

Re: Confirmation Dialog Box

2009-01-22 Thread Oliva Millonig, Patricia
Hi: I created a custom dialog box with buttons Yes and No and set a temp field as you suggested. The temp field maps to a display-only field on the parent form on close. AL's set the value on click of Yes or No. The same AL that opens that dialog box should have a next action I wasn't

Re: ITSM 7: Incident Owner Set Based on Autoassignment Rule or Based on Submitter/Assignee Group?

2009-01-22 Thread Charles Baldi
The OOB workflow first checks to see if an assignment rule is in the CFG:Assignment form (Event=Incident Owner). If not, then it chooses a default based on the submitter/assigned group rules. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Rabi Tripathi ars_l...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,

Re: To to figure out which rows are selected? + Crystal question

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Mark, Have the active links that perform what you want in a Guide, and call that guide and do a Table Loop, with the option 'Table Loop Selected Rows Only' checked. That should achieve what you want. Hope that helps.. Cheers Joe From: Mark Milke

Re: Quick Question New Mandatory field on helpdesk form

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Steve, In my opinion, you might have to create a customized Filter. The reason being if that value is set to something specific, you do not want to overide that with a default. So one of the last filters to execute on that form would be to check the contents of that field and if null set it

Re: Dynamic Window label?

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Laurie, Sorry to hear that. I know that option gives the title bar of the window a dynamic name, but wasn't too sure how it would affect the windows list names. There is no other option that I am aware of to the best of my knowledge. Maybe you could write up an RFE giving Remedy your business

Re: Confirmation Dialog Box

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Hello Tricia, I agree I wasn't completely clear.. I apologize.. Lets assume you have a AL called 'TRICIA:OpenWindow01' whose execution order is lets say 100 The action on that should be Open Window to open the Dialog box. It might also help to clear the value of the temp field on the parent

Re: ITSM 7: Incident Owner Set Based on Autoassignment Rule or Based on Submitter/Assignee Group?

2009-01-22 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Charles, A review of Incidents on my system supports your statement. Did I miss this statement anywhere in the manuals, or do you know this from experience/code review? Anyway, thank you. --- Charles Baldi charles.ba...@gmail.com wrote: The OOB workflow first checks to see if an assignment

32bit script for Mid-Tier Errors

2009-01-22 Thread YHK
Hello Listers! Hope everyone is doing well. I have a Mid-Tier server running on 2003 Enterprise 64bit. I have been asked to install IIS 6 instead of Apache, which I originally installed and worked great. Per the MT guide and a KM i found, you are to run both the scripts below. The first script

Any one use 'Configure Service Target Data Source' for SLA's Helpdesk

2009-01-22 Thread Timothy Rondeau
Hi All, More sla questions. So I basically went through the docs again and found that on the 'Configure Service Target Data Source' for Helpdesk, under the MSP/Business Time tab you can put in a Field Containing Entity. I basically created a field and I add the Entity on the Incident. Now I

Re: ITSM 7: Incident Owner Set Based on Autoassignment Rule or Based on Submitter/Assignee Group?

2009-01-22 Thread strauss
Suffice it to say that we had to create a separate Ownership rule to match every generic assignment rule that was based on the customer location. We have over 25 distributed support groups, each one of which supports a distinct grouping of users in the global customer company according to

Remedy Java API: UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.bmc.arsys.api.Proxy.ARInitialization()J

2009-01-22 Thread Ravi
Hi: I am trying to create and run java applications from a server where Remedy is not installed. Scripts that run on perfectly fine on the remedy server donot seem to run on a server where remedy is not installed. I have copied all the jar files to $JAVA_HOME/lib directory. I can compile the

Defect Search Problem

2009-01-22 Thread Wheeler, Dylan
Hi Listers So I'm wondering if there's some hidden trick to looking up defects. I have a problem with our production mid tier and BMC support told me it's fixed by Patch 10 and they gave me the defect id. I look at patch 10 and the defect id is listed as being fixed there but it deals with

Urgent Job - Remedy Architect - DC Metro - Kforce

2009-01-22 Thread Kitchen, Joshua T
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Re: Remedy Java API: UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.bmc.arsys.api.Proxy.ARInitialization()J

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
I think this may be because that you might be having two jar files having the same classes being initiated in the same java instance. You will need to find out which jar file contains these classes that throw the exception below and remove them and place them at a common location so it is

Mid-Tier Browser Mac issue

2009-01-22 Thread Gayford, Matthew C.
Hi List, We have a Mac user who, upon visiting a link to an entry in a form via web browser, gets presented with a blank page. The same link will load without problem on Windows machines, but it seems that it won't load on a Mac. We've tried Safari and Firefox on a Mac in the office with the

Re: ITSM 7: Incident Owner Set Based on Autoassignment Rule or Based on Submitter/Assignee Group?

2009-01-22 Thread Charles Baldi
Rabi, The ITSM 7.x Configuration Guide focuses on the support group assignment, so not much help until you notice the Assignment Events table where it explains the Incident Owner event. Then it is trial and error but not to bad. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Rabi

Re: Any one use 'Configure Service Target Data Source' for SLA's Helpdesk

2009-01-22 Thread Charles Baldi
Sorry for the silly question, but did you rebuild your Data Source after you added the field to HPD:Help Desk? Chuck On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Timothy Rondeau timothy.rond...@phaseforward.com wrote: Hi All, More sla questions. So I basically went through the docs again and found

Re: Mid-Tier Browser Mac issue

2009-01-22 Thread strauss
We saw this a lot a couple of years ago when testing 7.0.x ... one of the reasons we waited for 7.1. Since even 7.1 did not properly support Firefox and Safari on Macs until 7.1.00.002, I'm guessing that you need to be on a higher patch level of 7.0.01 on your mid-tier than 003 in order to see

Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Heanai
Hello, I am having a bit of an issue. I have two datasets A and B. I use the Reconciliation Engine to merge attributes of these two to C. This works fine. However when i try to Reconcile C to the Gold Dataset it doesn't work as C already has a Reconciliation ID. Is there any way around this?

Re: Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Roger Justice
It should still work if you have written the job properly. If you need to you can do a modify all on the Base Element form and set the ReconcilliationIdentity to zero. -Original Message- From: Heanai seanhea...@hotmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 2:38 pm Subject:

Cisco Loadbalancing Keepalive Scripts

2009-01-22 Thread versicle
We are using a Cisco loadbalancer in front of our three application servers and we are trying to configure it with a script to determine some ok application response. We were considering writing an API script to login and return some message. Has anyone done this or have any better easier

Re: ITSM 7.0.3 Approval Server

2009-01-22 Thread Decou, Candace M
Do you also have these people set up with a change permission - Change Submitter Read license or ?? If Not, that might be the problem. :) Candace -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent:

ITSM individual assignment process by assigned group rather than by company?

2009-01-22 Thread Muhlethaler, Laurie
Listers ~ my users have asked to have automated assignments enabled at the individual level. However, different assignment groups want different processes (some want number, others want round-robin). We are currently running single-tenancy, have automated assignments at the group level and have

Re: Cisco Loadbalancing Keepalive Scripts

2009-01-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Mike, Load balancing softwares usually communicate with the port the application is using and if that port offers no response, it knows the service is down. So you do not really need to write any script. It should be availabe in the LB interface. I haven't had a look at the Cisco interface,

Re: Mid-Tier Browser Mac issue

2009-01-22 Thread Gidd
Matt, Our XtremeAIR interface to ESS supports any browser, is hardware independent and resides on the user's desktop (no url's to remember and NO MID TIER required). Have you taken a look at what we offer? _ In case you are interested: Download Installation Instructions

Re: Any one use 'Configure Service Target Data Source' for SLA's Helpdesk

2009-01-22 Thread Timothy Rondeau
Yes. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Charles Baldi Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Any one use 'Configure Service Target Data Source' for SLA's Helpdesk

Re: ITSM individual assignment process by assigned group rather than by company?

2009-01-22 Thread Greg Donalson
Hi Laurie, In the User tool, if you search for the form Assignment Engine Administration, this is where you can set it all up. Also, the pdf, Configuration, is a good place to see how to set it up. Greg Donalson Schlumberger Desk - 713-513-2331 Cell - 281-515-6538 _ From: Action

Re: ITSM individual assignment process by assigned group rather than by company?

2009-01-22 Thread Darrell Reading
Poll your customers to see if there is one solution that stands out above the rest, implement it, and tell the others that it's a Best Practice solution. :P Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 dere...@wal-mart.com Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 805 Moberly Lane, MS-0560-68

Re: ITSM individual assignment process by assigned group rather than by company?

2009-01-22 Thread Muhlethaler, Laurie
LOL. Actually already tried that several months ago -- they weren't going for it!! On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:36:11 -0600, Darrell Reading darrell.reading...@wal- MART.COM wrote: Poll your customers to see if there is one solution that stands out above the rest, implement it, and tell the others

Re: ITSM individual assignment process by assigned group rather than by company?

2009-01-22 Thread Muhlethaler, Laurie
EXACTLY what I was looking for (gave up after looking through some other pdf's)! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, Greg! On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:30:15 -0600, Greg Donalson cdonal...@houston.oilfield.slb.com wrote: Hi Laurie, In the User tool, if you search for the form

Re: best method to hide attributes in a cmdb class

2009-01-22 Thread Lyle Taylor
Actually, Sri has it right. The CMDB console is not really an appropriate place to be working with CIs in general except for under special circumstances. In general, you should have users creating and updating CIs using the Asset Management forms - it's a much better front end and can be

Re: Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Lyle Taylor
Why are you merging A and B into C and then C into Gold rather than merging A and B (and perhaps C depending on whether it has any of its own data) directly into Gold? Which version of the CMDB are you using? If you're on version 2 or higher, it keeps track of which dataset each attribute

Re: Remedy Java API: UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.bmc.arsys.api.Proxy.ARInitialization()J

2009-01-22 Thread Calman Steynberg
This is caused by not having the native libraries on your path. When the JVM can't find native libraries you get java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError. Make sure that the following DLL's are in your $PATH if you are using windows: cid:part1.05080203.07080703@bmc.comarapi71.dll arjni71.dll

Re: Mid-Tier Browser Mac issue

2009-01-22 Thread Russ Grant
Matt, I've experienced the same problem. Typically with Firefox and not Safari. I do not have a good answer as on how to resolve the issue but I have had limited success by cleaning up the form (removing the old Web type views, removing unnecessary views) with very limited success. One other

LOB Space Reclaim Procedure Issue

2009-01-22 Thread Duy Do
Hi List, As per a BMC supplied white paper document to reclaim space, we moved LOBs from Out of Row to In Row which we gained space about 19GB out of 32GB in ARSystem tablespace. After initial testings, the following results were observed Table Name LOB Name Operation Initial

Re: LOB Space Reclaim Procedure Issue

2009-01-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Duy, I remember our Oracle DBA saying something about running a job that actually releases the data. So even if you delete rows, the space isn't freed up until some job is run. Obviously this isn't a solution but hopefully it points you in the right direction. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst,

Re: Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Romain
When you say it doesn't work what exactly is happening, or not happening? If you are trying to merge a CI from C to golden where they have different recon ids then that will never work. It should still work if you have written the job properly. If you need to you can do a modify all on the

Re: Reconciliation IDsþ

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Romain
BMC best practice is to merge multiple CI sources into a staging dataset before merging into production. This allows you to keep the recon rules creating the best-of-the-best imported data separate from the business recon rules you use to update your golden dataset. It also makes it easier to

Re: Reconciliation IDsþ

2009-01-22 Thread Lyle Taylor
From what I recall from training, that was a best practice before CMDB 2. They recommended NOT doing that in CMDB 2 training for performance reasons. Otherwise, I'm not sure I see a point in creating separate rules for determine the best-of-the-best and then having another set of rules for

Re: Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Heanai
Yaa C already has a Recon ID after the record was created from A and B. You said in another post that BMC recommended this as a Best Practise, how would they have intended this to work then? Thanks, Sean P Romain ARSlist wrote: When you say it doesn't work what exactly is happening, or not

Re: Reconciliation IDs‏

2009-01-22 Thread Heanai
Sorry i didnt answer your question fully. What is happening is that instead of updating the record in GOLD it is creating a new record. I never want to create a new record in Gold, i just want to update whats there, if it doesnt exist in Gold then i dont want to merge the record. If you said that

Re: cmdb2.x import templates

2009-01-22 Thread Ahire, Anand
The recommended way is use BMC Atrium Integration Engine (AIE) for this purpose. AIE 7.1 has CSV file adapter and would be the easiest and scalable way to load data into CMDB. The mappings you would create could be used for any future transfer. Also AIE could be used to create relationships