Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Richard Parker
We are considering dropping our support contract with BMC. We've considered the implications of this as far tech support calls, licensing and new software releases. Was wondering if anyone has experience with dropping support and what other issues might have come up besides the above mentioned ite

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Matt Worsdell
When you decide to restart support you'll be asked to pay the interim cost IIRC. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Richard Parker Sent: 17 July 2009 09:06 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Dropping BMC Support ** We are consideri

Re: Performnace Issue Due To Report Fetching

2009-07-17 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCOKT
Here are a few suggestions: - Build better indexes - Archive old data in the subject table to reduce overall table size - Use fewer LIKE statements...i.e., reduce ANYWHERE pattern matching in fields where it's not necessary. LIKE is a performance killer - Consider implementing the NOLOCK option

Job: ITSM7 Developer/Consultant

2009-07-17 Thread Edward Bailey
Hi, We currently have a long term contract requirement in the UK for a security cleared ITSM7 developer. If you are currently available for contract work and would like to discuss this requirement please contact me asap. Thank you, Edward Bailey Resource Administrator Fusion Resourcing Hom

Re: database migration

2009-07-17 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCOKT
If a Remedy server service cannot start after a database migration, that typically indicates something's wrong with the database: - Is the database service running? - Does the ARAdmin account have ownership over the ARSystem database? - Was the ARSystem database properly attached when it was migr

Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread Manish SINGLA
Hello List, We have been observing that, when ARServed process reaches to 100% CPU utilization, system performance get degraded drastically. Even if system still has another CPU available means in total it's 50% utilized. This results into when user even couldn't login. Please advice how I can un

Re: Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCOKT
Look for code that is running away or overly ambitious: - Active links that run on an interval that do massive queries - Escalations that do massive updates running during prime time - Code that trips a filter that trips a filter that trips a filter that does massive updates Check your logs to se

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is correct, and it can be far-reaching. At my current employer, we were looking into purchasing ITSM a few years ago. Basically, BMC let us have it for paying back-maintenance from an old company. So basically what happened is that Company "E" went sold off Company "C" and went bankrupt.

Re: Job: ITSM7 Developer/Consultant

2009-07-17 Thread Vijay Dodla
Thanks for the sending the requirements .Currently am on a project . On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Edward Bailey wrote: > ** Hi, > > We currently have a long term contract requirement in the UK for a security > cleared ITSM7 developer. If you are currently available for contract > work and wo

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread patrick zandi
Off the top of the head. you loose support obviously you loose the free ability to move servers (keys - licenses) you loose the upgrade software you loose the patches you loose more money -- if you come back, (Some do not and pay for the whole thing again from scratch) -- Just a quick 2 Cents On F

OT: Friday Humor - A Public service message about LIFE

2009-07-17 Thread PRUITT, CHRISTOPHER
On the first day, God created the dog and said: 'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.' The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the ot

Re: Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread patrick zandi
you may want to post your ar.conf as well.. remove the password strings for us, even if hashed. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Manish SINGLA wrote: > Hello List, > > We have been observing that, when ARServed process reaches to 100% CPU > utilization, system performance get degraded drasticall

Re: Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread Darrell Reading
So this is a one proc box? How much memory? How many users access the system, total, and contiguous? What OS? 32 or 64 bit? What DB? What version of Remedy? What did the compatibility matrix say? Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 dere...@wal-mart.com Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 80

Remedy error ARERR 91

2009-07-17 Thread Riley, Russel
Hello Arslist, Do you all know what to make of the below error? I has been showing up sporadically for the last couple of days. ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC Can't encode arguments. Thanks, Rusty Riley. What do you make of this error? I have been getting this sporadically for the last 2 da

Re: OT: Friday Humor - A Public service message about LIFE

2009-07-17 Thread Joe DeSouza
:-) Funny stuff! Joe From: "PRUITT, CHRISTOPHER" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:38:48 AM Subject: OT: Friday Humor - A Public service message about LIFE ** On the first day, God created the dog and said:  'Sit all day by the door of

Re: Remedy error ARERR 91

2009-07-17 Thread dcharters
What changed 2 days ago? On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:00:11 +, Riley, Russel wrote > Hello Arslist, Do you all know what to make of the below error? I > has been showing up sporadically for the last couple of days. > > ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC Can't encode arguments. > > Thanks, > Rusty

Button Click in Macro

2009-07-17 Thread bruce sisk
Good morning, It has been a ooonnn time since I have recorded a macro... Is it possible to include a button click in a macro?? I need to be able to open a screen in submit mode...set 2 fields...and fire some workflow...all from a command line. I am looking for extremely simple, som

Re: Remedy error ARERR 91

2009-07-17 Thread Riley, Russel
Absolutely nothing. Thanks, Rusty Riley. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of dcharters Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy error ARERR 91 What changed 2 days ago?

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Parker, Lawrence T
Another thing to consider is you will not be able to get license keys generated online should you need them. If you make a server change and need licensing for it, you will have to coord a purchase with BMC. Lawrence Parker IT Service Support Tools EDS Remedy Engineering 1968 Gilbert Street

Re: Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread Axton
The cpu utilization tells you the process is busy doing something, the real questions is, "What is the process doing?" Turn on your api logs and check it out. There are some operations that block, which would explain it being bound to a single cpu. What is the cache mode of the server? Axton Gr

Re: Friday Humor - A Public service message about LIFE

2009-07-17 Thread marti...@ad.jmu.edu
Thanks, Christopher! It made my Friday Dwayne Martin James Madison University From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of PRUITT, CHRISTOPHER Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:39 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: Friday Humor - A Public servic

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Davis, David CTR NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, Code 0552
I seem to remember something in the licensing agreement about removing unlicensed BMC products from your servers. Read your license agreement. You may find, as with other software vendors, that your use of the software is dependant upon maintaining a maintenance/support contract with the vendo

Re: Performance issue as ARServed takes 100% CPU utilization

2009-07-17 Thread patrick zandi
I have seen an older version of Email engine do this? in the configuration it was set to 1, 1 should be minutes, but I remember there were versions that this was Seconds instead.. And so then I was seeing polling to the SMTP server several times a second, causing CPU spike. Turning on admin panel,

Re: Performnace Issue Due To Report Fetching

2009-07-17 Thread Benedetto Cantatore
You can replicate the database on another server and use that strictly for reporting. Your data will be behind, by how much depends on how you replicate. Even if you do need up to the minute reports, you can at least off load the user who don't need that. Ben Cantatore Remedy Manager (914) 457-

Remedy Developers Needed

2009-07-17 Thread Shrestha, Manjari R.
I am posting in behalf of Jeff. He is recruiting for a client that needs multiple Remedy Developers for a contract position in central Ohio. Will develop clients IT Service Management (ITSM) application. : * ITSM technically includes the install and customization of the BMC Remedy Version 7

Re: ARERR [306]

2009-07-17 Thread jham36
When we had this issue, restarting the server temporarily resolved it. When it resurfaced again a month later, we restarted again. We went on like his for a few months until we could get the patch installed. James On Jul 15, 9:43 am, Larry Zimmermann wrote: > This is a bug.  BMC informed us th

Re: Approval Issue

2009-07-17 Thread B A
Can you check the AP:Notify filters that are created? The qualification and action should suggest what is going on. a.g.bryan.14 On 7/16/09, manoj jain wrote: > > ** Hi Remedians, > > > I have stucked in very strange problem. > In change management for implementation phase some times approvers g

Re: Performnace Issue Due To Report Fetching

2009-07-17 Thread B A
Are any of the bind variable referring to a user? a.g.bryan.14 On 7/17/09, manoj jain wrote: > > ** Hi Remedians, > > I need some suggesstions from your side related to performance issue. > Our DBA team got one query due to this query performance issue occuring. > > *Query:* > ** > > *High I/O q

Enable guest users to interact with an AR application inside corporation network

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Fremont
Hi, Our AR server for an internal application is in the corporation network which is only accessible to users inside company network. And for the security reasons, this AR server must be in the protected network. 1.We're considering to send out and email with URL to guest users who do not have re

Re: Enable guest users to interact with an AR application inside corporation network

2009-07-17 Thread B A
This looks like an ideal case to use bmc email engine. Let the users send an email with "Submit" tag and email engine will take care of making necessary updates. Only that the guest user should have write permisisons to the form. a.b.bryan.14 On 7/18/09, Andrew Fremont wrote: > > ** Hi, > > Our

Re: Remedy error ARERR 91

2009-07-17 Thread B A
are you using a plugin? a.g.bryan.14 On 7/17/09, Riley, Russel wrote: > > ** > > Hello Arslist, Do you all know what to make of the below error? I has > been showing up sporadically for the last couple of days. > > > > ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC Can't encode arguments. > > > > Thanks, > >

Re: Performnace Issue Due To Report Fetching

2009-07-17 Thread David Charters
Get a reporting server and crystal enterprise that would be the ideal solution. Other that limit access to the reporting ser and limit query chunk size Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: B A Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:06:06 To: Subject: Re: Perfor

User Tool 7.1 Hiccup

2009-07-17 Thread Lin, Jason
Hi Lister, We recently upgraded from ARS 6.3/ITSM 6 to ARS 7.1/ITSM 7 and migrated our Remedy to AIX server as well. However we have been noticed there is a hiccup on Remedy user tool after the tool is on idle (not using the tool) for like 20 minutes or more. It seems like it's taking time to r

ADDM 7.5 Console--Java Version

2009-07-17 Thread McClure, Don
For those of you working BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (7.5.01)--please be aware that the Discovery Client requires JRE 1.4.2_13. No other versions are supported. And, this JRE was EOL-d (end-of-life) by Sun on 30 Oct 2008, according to their website. In fact--initial access to

Press release BMC and AWS

2009-07-17 Thread Geoffrey Endresen
I got this forwarded to me. The future looks bright --- BMC Software is tapping into Amazon Web Services for a new tool that will manage both in-house and cloud-based services through a single portal. The new Business Service Management (BSM) platform, announced on Wednesday, will allow

Re: database migration

2009-07-17 Thread Kevin-J
OS: Red Hat 5 DB: Oracle 10g AR: ARS7.1Patch005 I tried the 2 server use ARAdmin/AR#Admin# to access the DB, and all worked, I think not the ARAdmin accout problem. I roll back to the older database which worked fine before, and the server cant be start either... Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC

Re: ADDM 7.5 Console--Java Version

2009-07-17 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Hi, Our issue is that some customers does not want to install software that is EOL. Regards, Jarl 2009/7/17 McClure, Don : > For those of you working BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping > (7.5.01)--please be aware that the Discovery Client requires JRE 1.4.2_13.   > No other versions a