Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Yup, it would be nice to be able to use iPhones and iWhatever and not worry about Flash not being compatible with it.. Another thing I also heard is Adobe has plans to consider iWhatever systems when building some future release of Flash.. so I guess somewhere not too far away in the future, o

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread John Peto
Hi, Do you have affinity set between oracle client / db (think this is just tns syntax), or are not using a load balanced VIP for the SID? TNS affinity causes app servers to prefer a particular db node if it's available, can make troubleshooting easier and would mean that all admin work is car

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Patrick Zandi
Wow! If they do that I would be impressed! I agree with that direction! Sent from my iPhone so typo's or funky words can and do happen! On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza wrote: > ** > > I meant the Adobe Flash player that’s required to display quite a few things > these days w

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Patrick Zandi
I would export tables Import into another db , hook up an ars and clean it up. Sent from my iPhone so typo's or funky words can and do happen! On Oct 14, 2011, at 3:13 PM, JD Hood wrote: > ** Having a really weird issue at a client where, when you restart the AR > Server service (not every ti

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread JD Hood
Hey Joe, BMC Support has been briefed. Also given the RAC clue. But with the site security restrictions, they didn't seem too interested in researching too deep for us. Example -- we know there was some issue with Oracle RAC and a previous ARS version, but they advised they could find no mention o

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread JD Hood
Sound idea, but just not feasible. There are too many other eggs in that RAC basket. But I think I will ask if they can stand up the AR instance on a stand-alone, non-rac Oracle host though. Thanks, JDHood On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:34 PM, LJ LongWing wrote: > ** > > JD, > > While I have nev

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread JD Hood
Thanks Rick -- We're in the same boat with just a vague recollection. But at least your recollection and ours indicates it wasn't some weird dream. Or does it? BMC Support (backline) says no Oracle-RAC issues exist in their KB's! Maybe we *are* in the twilight zone. JDHood On Fri, Oct 14, 2011

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I meant the Adobe Flash player that’s required to display quite a few things these days which include control type flash objects embedded in DVF’s (data visualization fields).. ITSM 7.6.04 have controls like close, expand, etc. that get displayed a little differently (close to ugly) with an in

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread LJ LongWing
Interesting…we don’t have any Flashboards in our app…so hopefully that impact will be negative, if any…but I’ll keep it in my notes J From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 3:23 PM To: ar

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
BMC support once gave me a script (SQL) to check for inconsistencies within the database when we had some container related issues.. This script verifies such problems and the commented lines in the script tells you what you should expect for a consistent result. You may want to ask them for i

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
The following will show any counts that are wrong: -- List Schema's that have different number of fields than defined in Meta Tables. Select * From ( select a.NAME, a.SCHEMAID, a.NUMFIELDS Schema_Field_Count, (Select count(f.FIELDID) From Field f Where f.SCHEMAID=a.SCHEMAID) db_Fi

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
You may also want to turn off automatic update of the flash player on client PC’s belonging to end users. Although the compatibility only lists a minimum version of the Flash player (or plugin if you use non IE browsers), its better to stay close to the nearest version known to you that you hav

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Rick Cook
I seem to recall an issue in 7.5 where RAC would not play nicely with Server Groups. It was a while ago, so I don't remember the details. Sorry. :-/ Rick On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Chowdhury, Tauf wrote: > ** > Yeah, from my understanding, the way RAC works is similar to load > balanci

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yeah, from my understanding, the way RAC works is similar to load balancing. You connect to a virtual SID like "Remedy-RAC" Then, based on some magical parameters, your individual DB connections get spread out amongst the nodes like Node1, Node2, Node3 etc... Now, could there be an issue with th

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread LJ LongWing
JD, While I have never seen these symptoms, I agree with you that it appears, somehow to be related with the communication method between your remedy server and your DB. As I understand the RAC, it's a Clustering software, and if not performing properly, I could totally see problems with restarti

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread John Sundberg
Sounds like a creepy problem. I would look into "disk problems". -John On Oct 14, 2011, at 2:13 PM, JD Hood wrote: ** Having a really weird issue at a client where, when you restart the AR Server service (not every time, but at random nth restarts)... - Random forms fail to load in the s

Re: Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
JD, Interesting timing for this post. I have a consultant working in our non-prod environment right now noticing a strange issue and we are on RAC. Basically, we have 2 servers in a server group. The one server is fine... but the primary is getting timeout errors and when we try to open filters o

Re: Dashboards 7.6.0.1 cannot connect to the Remedy Data Source

2011-10-14 Thread patchsk
If you are using oracle in the connection parameters use Instance name instead of service name. If the instance name is not configured then check with your dba to configure an instance name for your db. We had similar issue and we were able to connect using Instance name. ___

Oracle-RAC and ARS Issues?

2011-10-14 Thread JD Hood
Having a really weird issue at a client where, when you restart the AR Server service (not every time, but at random nth restarts)... - Random forms fail to load in the server (won't list in client & won't list in the Admin tool, but T,H,B tables are still there with data) - Random fields vanish on

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread strauss
Yes, it requires that both are available; I installed the Sun JDK 1.6.0_24 x64 and Sun JDK 1.6.0_24 x86 at the time. And no, I don't allow java to update automatically; EVER! On 2008 R2 (and Windows 7) it takes deleting the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java\Java Update to kill

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread strauss
The 7.6.04.x installer will prompt you for directories and java, and it finally is completely 64-bit aware (many components like the plugin server still actually run/use 32-bit processes - just look in the Task Manager when they are running), and will install in D:\Program Files instead of D:\Pr

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Danny Kellett
It installs everything in Program Files\ and no there isn't a 32 bit version. Looking at my notes there was one thing but this is probably my fault. I downloaded Java from ninite.com as a package. I love the site and use it all the time. Well the AR install didn't detect it. So I think I h

John Doe

2011-10-14 Thread Daniel Bloom
Consider the issue of identifying yourself as being reported. It is quite reasonable to ask people to identify themselves, it is common courtesy to do so. There are some that hide their identity for good and honourable reasons, e.g. to avoid being fired, and those that hide their identity becaus

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread LJ LongWing
Permissions - Check MAPI - Not an issue, we use smtp J Alarm Point - Not an issue Additional question..we have never used the default install path.have always installed to an E drive.this will be my first Server based 64 Bit system and I know there are things like 'if it's a 32 Bit App, it mu

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
LJ has been known to this forum for a few years and I can assure you he doesn’t harass people participating on here.. It is one of the forums etiquette if you are not aware, to identify yourself instead of coming in as John Smith. Dan Bloom the founder of this list had compiled a few list etiq

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread John Doe
What does my login ID have to do with the subject matter, sir? Please do not harass fellow posters or it will be reported. Thank you. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.c

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread strauss
Almost all of your problems will be from the tighter permissions, especially if you are mixing domain accounts with local accounts or using domain accounts to run your services. Expect to have to apply explicit permissions to folders for the AR Server service account and the tomcat service acco

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread LJ LongWing
Cool.mine would be in a VM as well.no 'holly crap' moments while you worked with it? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Danny Kellett Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:06 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server 2008 R2 **

Re: Incident Management Console/Incident Ownership Process

2011-10-14 Thread Nikolay Fedoseyenko
We didn't like this as well, when migrated to ITSM 7.6 little over a year ago. I did: Added assignment rule for Incident Owner to be Help Desk. Could be multiple based on your location and org structure. We have one central help desk that answear all calls and forward/escalate incidents, so this

Re: Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread Danny Kellett
Hi, Honestly, I have used this setup a few times. All in VMWare but it seems fine everytime. Kind regards Danny From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: 14 October 2011 16:56 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Server

IVR integration to Incident 7.6.004

2011-10-14 Thread Dennis Gilmore
We have a need to integrate IVR into ITSM 7.6.x Incident Management to pre-populate / Pop an incident ticket at the "Help Desk", has anyone built that integration? Avaya Call Center Elite 5.2 system running Avaya Interactive Response 3.x software integration to Incident ___

Server 2008 R2

2011-10-14 Thread LJ LongWing
I'm running 7.6.4 SP1 on Windows 2003 with a remote SQL Server 2008. My Windows SA's asked me the other day when I was going to move to Windows Server 2008 R2. I did some initial testing and found that 7.6.4 installs on the 64 Bit OS and seems to run fine (I could connect and such).what are the

Re: Dashboards 7.6.0.1 cannot connect to the Remedy Data Source

2011-10-14 Thread Alejandro Canon
Pete: Can you try to add ARSystem DB as an external DataSource using DB Credentials? I mean not using standard ARSystem integration but using direct integration to SQL Server 2008. Just for discarding connectivity/authentication issues. Regards, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion l

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out

2011-10-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
An interesting item in the ARS patch is that we can use multiple plugin servers now. I wonder if that applies to all the OOtB plugins, and if so I suspect that it could be a performance gain to put them on different threads. I have an escalation that runs against a vendor form with the ARBDC p

Dashboards 7.6.0.1 cannot connect to the Remedy Data Source

2011-10-14 Thread Joran, Peter CTR WHS/ITMD/CACI
All I'm getting the error noted below when configuring a connection to the ARSystem data source. Looking at the error, it seems I need to enable the Remedy Datasource? If anyone knows how to do this I would be very grateful. The path referenced in the error, /shared/BMC_DIL/DataSource/Remedy/AR, do

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Don’t get me started about testing.. Basic functionality sometimes that worked in previous versions did not work in many of the release 1’s of a new version.. And these were functionalities that sometimes hindered development efforts. And sometimes even new features added did not work in some

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out

2011-10-14 Thread strauss
I wonder if there is going to be an SP2 for SLM? It would affect the order in which you install components. They certainly need an SP2 to clean up the SLM Dashboards, based on the problems that we have identified so far. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager Universit

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
The ITSM app consoles are not supported.. Let me clarify what I meant it works on both.. I had no problems with the tool itself.. For performing other regular User Tool tasks such as viewing forms or reporting data etc... The ITSM consoles are not supported.. There is a statement of directive

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out

2011-10-14 Thread Guillaume Rheault
we'll do a fresh install , no upgrade From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] on behalf of Joe Martin D'Souza [jdso...@shyle.net] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:20 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7.6.04 and A

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread John Doe
Hey Joe,  Interesting.  7.6.04 client is not completely supported.  They have started phasing out the client with this release.  Change Management works for you in the client, 7.6.04?  It's never worked for me.  It must just be my environment. From: Joe Mar

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread John Doe
Oh Matt...here we go again my friend,  Unfortunately, this compatibility matrix answer falls into the all to familiar category of "latest versions and higher are supported."  This was also the answer to Windows 2008 server 64 bit.  Because the compatibility matrix states as long as the VENDOR d

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Awesome!!! If you get a chance to install / upgrade, let us know if your experiences qualifies for Friday Humor :-) Just kidding Joe From: Guillaume Rheault Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:12 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7.6.04 and

ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out

2011-10-14 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Finally, ITSM 7.6.04 and ARS 7.6.04 SP2 is out!! Guillaume ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread strauss
You must never use the process flow bar or one of the Next Stage or Resolve buttons on the Incident form. Any of those will open the HPD:Help Desk Dialogs form... after a 45 second to 1 minute delay. The same delay occurs when you Save and Close that dialog. This is exclusively an IE9 "featur

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I haven’t had any major problems either (both thick and thin client).. I did have few ‘cosmetic’ issues with the thin clients on other browsers though.. What issues are you guys facing? Joe From: Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:31 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You're a lucky man. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Service Portfolio Manager Infrastructure - Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shafqat Ayaz Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 4:

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-14 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
I have been using IE9 with Windows 7 with ITSM 7.6.04 without any problems for a while now.   Shafqat Ayaz    From: Jason Miller To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer