Re: Midtier SSO for 7.6.04 64bit

2012-02-22 Thread Jose Huerta
36 !!! Is it Friday? Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Syslog is just a bunch of text log files on your local Unix/Linux server, where you can define different log levels for various services. In this case the AR Server. Customarily, the syslog would contain messages generated on that specific server only... It is very easy to write code that

Re: Write License issue

2012-02-22 Thread Ramagiri, Ravi Chandra
Thanks a lot for the information. Regards RAVI CHANDRA R From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:22 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Write License issue ** Ravi, We

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Jose Huerta
I think that when the partner talks about sending syslog messages, he means that my remedy acts as a unix server receiving the logs. OK. I have enough information. Thank you all. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Syslog is not a communication protocol. If the partner says they have syslog files (log files), they can ftp them to your unix server for further processing. You can then you have some kind of programs that parse the log files and performs actions, such as submitting/modifying/correlating

Re: Localized views

2012-02-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It should be quite simple to write an API-program that lists all locales of a system and gives the option to remove one or more locales. Any sponsors? Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11):

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Jose Huerta
Thank Misi for the clarification. Regards, Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Change Calendar/data visualisation performance

2012-02-22 Thread Dave Barber
All, We have an issue with the performance of the change calendar - form opens quick enough, but the actual calendar/data visualisation takes anything from 1 to 3 minutes to display. System ARS 7.5p004, ITSM 7.5. Mid tier and AR Servers are running on T5240s, all running Solaris. Database is

Re: Reporting Server ? Does it require a App serve to be installed

2012-02-22 Thread Bhupesh Gupta
Hi Rod, Is it possible that on Prodcution server, While creating reports, in Server field of Report form, I mention the Reporting DB Server and Ask user to use user tool pointing to Prod server? will this work as well. Please advise Thanks, Bhupesh

Atrium 7.6.04 install fails on ARS7.6.04sp3

2012-02-22 Thread Bhupesh Gupta
Atrium 7.6.04 install fails on AtriumCMDBConsole.def import warning on ARS7.6.04sp3 (ARWARN 9936 Audit option for Display Only fields can only be 'None'. Changing it to 'None' is interpreted as SEVERE by Atrium installer.) BMC Atrium

How To Find Remedy Consultants

2012-02-22 Thread Werner, Chris
All, I currently have several opportunities for remedy developers to support contracts throughout the country for both commercial and federal clients. I'm trying to find out if there are any companies or projects that are letting some of their remedy folks go. If any of you have any

Re: Standalone CMDB

2012-02-22 Thread Butera, Joseph
We extended the CMDB for one custom application. I recall the need for the user interface form to be a self-join of the target CMDB table rather than a view of the target table. Changes applied by Class Manager alters views of target tables (at least in did several years ago.) From: Action

Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Cecil, Ken
I am looking for feedback on what methods you use to create and maintain your AR System development environment(s)? Do you build from scratch and just import .def from production? What about data? (manual synchronization with prod, no data synchronization, automated tool) Is it

Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Jose Huerta
Hi all, Recently I started to think in the option to go outside my country to look for a better job. Well, I think I'm unpaid for the kind of job I'm doing right know and don't see to many opportunities in my birthplace (Mallorca, Spain). Also the economical crisis we are suffering, places us in

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Drew Shuller
Jose, The positions that you refer to are for US government institutions that require security clearances for the people doing the work. For regular clearances, you must be a US citizen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I certainly wouldn't concentrate solely on US positions. There should be

Re: Change Calendar/data visualisation performance

2012-02-22 Thread Axton
Look at the mid-tier performance. The DV plugins are all rendered by the midtier. The specifics of this can be lengthy and environment specific, but that is where you need to start if you have ruled out the database/queries as the bottleneck. Axton Grams On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dave

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Axton
Database copy is the most reliable/quickest method. If on Unix/Linux, the Remedy filesystem can be copied between the app servers. There are some steps that have to be taken after the database and filesystem copies to ensure that the system does not start generating email messages, etc. after

Re: Change Calendar/data visualisation performance

2012-02-22 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
You can capture this by running Fiddler logging to specifically capture where the slowness is taking place. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Look at the mid-tier performance. The DV plugins are all rendered by the midtier. The specifics of

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Rick Cook
Jose, there are lots of jobs open at non-government places that would require neither citizenship nor a security clearance, and you can sometimes get a contract firm to sponsor an H1-B. Might look at it from that angle. Rick On Feb 22, 2012 10:29 AM, Drew Shuller drew.shul...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Cecil, Ken
Thanks for your reply. Current environment is Windows Servers, MS SQL database, and ITSM apps. If we do a clean fresh install of the AR server and applications on the dev server (then take an image of that server for future rebuilds) would the db copy still work? Just overwrite the db that got

Auto running report

2012-02-22 Thread Jim Leupold
Hi, wonder if anyone has any experience with anything like this. I need to run a report every 5 minutes, that creates a .csv file, that only pulls data that has been modified in the last 5 minutes, and then creates a file on a network directory with a different file name every time it is run.

Re: Approval Engine Issues

2012-02-22 Thread Larry Barnes
First I want to thank all those who sent me their suggestions for a fix. BMC did get back to me on 2/21 informing me the problem I'm having with ARServer is a known bug and it can be fixed with a hot patch 008. This amounts to installing a new arapprove.dll file. There's only one problem, I

ITSM Professionals Needed!

2012-02-22 Thread Werner, Chris
Hello Remedy Professionals! Wanted to make you all aware of the openings we have at this time for ITSM experts. Windward has a number of openings in various locations for both commercial and government clients. We are open to hiring contractors (1099 or Corp to Corp) and full-time employeess

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread patchsk
It should work. There should not be any references to the hardcoded server names in the workflow. You could find the sqls to search for workflow server references in this forum or you could write your own sqls. Only stuff that did not work for us is AIE. So we had to reinstall AIE after db

ARS 7.5 patch 008 download (was RE: Approval Engine Issues)

2012-02-22 Thread David Durling
If someone at BMC could take a look at this, please - ARS 7.5 patch 008 download's been unavailable for over a month now, as far as I can tell - it gives a 550 /smbu_patches//ars/7.5/patch008: No such file or directory error. (I mentioned this to a BMC support tech in January, who offered to

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Cecil, Ken
Thanks From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:44 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment ** It should work. There should not be any

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Tommy Morris
RadioShack will have a full-time opening after this Friday. You don’t have to be able to obtain any clearance but I’m sure that they will not sponsor so you will need to get your own work visa etc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Romain
You might consider copying the prod database to the new environment and installing against that instead of doing a fresh install. The installers will run more quickly as they don't have much work to do on the database. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Romain
That reminds me of the time many years ago when I arrived in the US and replied 'Yes' to the question of whether I was there to work. Had I said 'No', I was on business I'd have got out of the airport a lot quicker!! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ARS 7.5 patch 008 download (was RE: Approval Engine Issues)

2012-02-22 Thread Easter, David
It's available on the EPD site, under the Product Patches tab. -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, Remedy Platform BMC Software, Inc.   The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc.  My

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Cecil, Ken
Great! Any idea if I will need to do any touch up to the data (i.e. referencing the prod server name)? Ken. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Peter Romain Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:07 PM To:

Re: ARS 7.5 patch 008 download (was RE: Approval Engine Issues)

2012-02-22 Thread David Durling
Okay, thanks, it does work there. Where I was navigating that has the issue is the Product Patches section, Remedy Heritage Products Patch Download link. David -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Easter,

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread pascale . sterrett
That made me laugh... Been there too. Got stuck in an airport for 24 hours trying to straighten the mess it created. But getting work in the US as a non us citizen and as a non permanent resident is harder now then it used to be. But still possible. Thank you, Pascale Sterrett

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Romain
Not for the installation as far as I remember but you'll still need to update server references as per a previous email to get it to work properly. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Cecil, Ken Sent: 22

Disalowing 7.5 developer tool on a 7.6.04 system

2012-02-22 Thread Jonas Stumph Stevnsvig
Hi listers I have a little question which bothers me, and I hope you can give me some insight. The background: We are about to go live with a new 7.6.04 sp2 environment. We have several consultants, not all of which are familiar with overlays. We almost had a catastrophe today with a person

Re: Disalowing 7.5 developer tool on a 7.6.04 system

2012-02-22 Thread LJ LongWing
Tell them Day 1 when they come in that they will be fired if they don't use the proper tool versionand follow through with the threat if they dothey will get the point or find another job :) The only way I know of to limit is with the api level...if you can't set that...I don't think

Re: ARS 7.5 patch 008 download (was RE: Approval Engine Issues)

2012-02-22 Thread Larry Barnes
Is this the only way to get to these patches now? If so, why is the other link,Product Patches, still visible on the web site? http://www.bmc.com/available/patch-download.html Seems very confusing. Larry B. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ARS 7.5 patch 008 download (was RE: Approval Engine Issues)

2012-02-22 Thread Axton
I know it won't help you today, but submit an enhancement request to extend that API version restriction to also include the client type. They are out there, and they have to be provided when connecting to a remedy server. I'm sure this will lead to all kind of fun fixes for the various

Incident ticket SLAs

2012-02-22 Thread patchsk
We have a new vendor that will start supporting our data center. We have a support group created for them. Say DataCenter Operations. They want to have 3 SLA targets created for their group to measure their work. Once the ticket is assigned to their group, 1. They will have 5 min to acknowledge

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Bennett, Craig
Our server group wanted some tickets to trigger Syslog notifications as they have their syslog server set up to notify them by pager I have a filter running the process: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14\bin\java -cp C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_14\bin;. JavalogClient solarwinds

OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread Hyunkel v2.0
Listers; Currently I'm interested on implementing a spell grammar check on Remedy, I've already coded this, the only thing I'm missing is that my code open a new word document, and at the end close all word windows; this has the inconvenient that if I'm having another open word document it

Re: Syslog

2012-02-22 Thread Axton
Forking a java process is a taxing approach. It could cause problems if you have a spike in volume of calls to this subsystem as each JRE (one per call) will eat up memory, cpu cycles, file handles, etc. If your Remedy server is running on Unix or Linux, you can use logger(1). If you wrapped

Re: OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread LJ LongWing
Hugo, I don't have an answer to your question, but I suggest you go another direction altogether. As the current release is the last one to have a client, and you can't do OLE in the web.I suggest you try getting something going with the web instead of further investing ANYTHING in the client

Re: OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread Hyunkel v2.0
That's so true. Actually I had mentioned many times this to our customer. However they have no plans on moving into new versions (currently running on 7.1). Appreciate your advice :-) Hugo Ruesga Software Development Advisor US 972.577.7000 x 332.3868 MX +52 (33) 3332.3868 P Please

Re: OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread Easter, David
If it helps in your discussions, you may wish to remind them that support for AR System 7.1.00, ITSM Suite 7.1.00 and the ITSM 7.0.03 applications will most likely end in mid-2012 with the release of the next version of the ITSM Suite. So if they do not have plans on moving into newer

JOB: Senior Remedy Administrator - Equinix

2012-02-22 Thread Chintan Shah
Hi all, We are looking for a strong Remedy Administrator(Administrator being keyword :)) in our team. An ideal candidate for this position would be managing/upgrading servers and would spend 80% of time with server/support issues and only 20% development. Please apply directly if you are

Re: Creating/Maintaining ARS Development Environment

2012-02-22 Thread Jason Miller
There is also the Remedy Restore Tool Version in the BMC Communities to help with the process. https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-7710 Jason On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Peter Romain p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk wrote: Not for the installation as far as I remember

Re: OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread Jon Slaven
Most browsers have spellcheck built in already... as for grammar check, it doesn't seem like it would work too well in a ticket. I do remember there being a free online spell/grammar check that you could call from web apps, can't think of the name of it off hand (not even sure it's still

Re: Disalowing 7.5 developer tool on a 7.6.04 system

2012-02-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I believe you can detect a user logging in using an older Dev Studio if you turn on your user logs and set them to store in a form. I have not tried putting a filter on the submit of the user log record to see whether an error there will stop the login. Just an idea Fred -Original

Re: OLE Integration

2012-02-22 Thread John Sundberg
Send it to the mechanical turk :) -John On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jon Slaven jon.sla...@amway.com wrote: Most browsers have spellcheck built in already... as for grammar check, it doesn't seem like it would work too well in a ticket. I do remember there being a free online

Re: Atrium 7.6.04 install fails on ARS7.6.04sp3

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Napierala
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Re: Disalowing 7.5 developer tool on a 7.6.04 system

2012-02-22 Thread Jason Miller
Exactly! On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:32 PM, LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com wrote: ** That wouldn’t be a good solution then….in fact it would be a worse situation because then you would have an un-logged modification… ** ** *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Question:What is the best way to migrate data,def, config?

2012-02-22 Thread RemedyAdmin
Hello List, Senario: Unix 6.1 Server A, current prod has ARS 7.5p4 installed on Oracle 10g local to server. The only components are Arsystem, ARDBC, AREA, EmailEngine, Flashboard. The mid-tier is remote. We have custom Change Management and Service (incident) management. Unix 6.1 Server B, new

Re: Disalowing 7.5 developer tool on a 7.6.04 system

2012-02-22 Thread Mueller, Doug
Jonas, Well, you can disable older protocols. But, that is not possible for you because you want to allow some tools but not others from the older protocol. You can disable access from given client types. But, that is not possible as you do want that client type to access but just version

2 Technical Analysts Needed for a project in Houston, TX

2012-02-22 Thread Carol Dorethy
I have a client in Houston, TX who has a need for 2 Technical Analysts starting mid March that will be a 7+ month contract. Our client is currently undergoing a ITSM implementation (7.6.04) and the next phase is heavily concentrated to design, build and test, leading up to deployment in

Re: Auto running report

2012-02-22 Thread Jason Miller
There are a few ways to do this. We use Crystal Reports Distributor for much of our report automation; which would be all you need to meet this requirement (well and Crystal Reports). We also have Crystal Enterprise which will do this but it is a bit more cumbersome. I have also used Crystal

Re: Auto running report

2012-02-22 Thread Dee
Similar to the Scheduler that Jason mentioned; but on the server side (UNIX). This is one method we used. 1. Create a macro file: data modified in last 5 minutes 2. Create a report file. 3. Append the report to macro file. 4. Append to the function - to-file: /path/file.csv 5. On the server,

Remedy on Demand question

2012-02-22 Thread David Ferguson
Does Remedy on Demand provide an ODBC connection to the underlying database? That be used to run a query for example in Crystal Reports on-site. If not how have other users accomplished custom reporting? Is there an easy way to export information and build a reporting datamart? thanks --

Re: No. of file descriptors not getting released in 7.6.4

2012-02-22 Thread Pavan Kandikonda
Hi Axton, Thanks for your response. We I was using this command to check the number of files for that process pfiles arserverd pid|grep uid|wc The numbers keep increase unless we restart the arsystem. We built another server last weekend and surprisingly there is no issue there. We see this in

Re: No. of file descriptors not getting released in 7.6.4

2012-02-22 Thread Axton
What does the output from pfiles show? All you will get by piping into wc is a count. Axton Grams On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Pavan Kandikonda hipa...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Axton, Thanks for your response. We I was using this command to check the number of files for that process pfiles

Re: Job opportunities for foreigners

2012-02-22 Thread Jose Huerta
Hi all, Thank you for your answers (including the ones from people that reply me directly). I'm not restricted to USA. I have no particular interest in USA. I planning to go wherever is needed. But I have a handicap: My languages are Spanish, Catalan and English. That restricts my options to