Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Lee Cullom
Dawn, I saw this in a demonstration in 2010 with SCOM. They have network topology mapping for the most part… and application maps for most Microsoft applications, but not a huge library of things that they map like ADDM. So, this is probably something to point out. However, for demo purposes

fast and list threads - by cores or cpus? - documentation conflicts.

2012-03-22 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
I'm confused - the doc seems to conflict and BMC architects have signed off on our ar.cfg settings in the past in which they were set by CPU and not by Cores. My previous understanding was that these values should be set by the number of CPUs and not Cores, in fact BMC architects have signed of

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Shellman, David
We were headed down the MOM path when Microsoft pulled the plug and complete rearchitected as SCOM. There was no migration path from MOM to SCOM. We went back to HP products. Dave On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:49 PM, "Lee Cullom" mailto:lee.cul...@northcraftanalytics.com>> wrote: ** This is an inte

Re: Incident Mgmt Target Date Question

2012-03-22 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
I think the expected date can also be filled out by SRM if the request originates from there. Another thing you could do (I've never done it) is to have a milestone and action kick off at like 1 min after the SLT attaches to update $timestamp$. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 22, 2012, at 6:10 PM, "Ho

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Dawn Derouchie
I am not sure if this is true or not, but I have heard that Microsoft SCSM with respect to their CMDB, does not have the equivalent of an ADDM and that the discovery peice would still need to be done with another vendor's software.   So lets say you used some other vendor's software for that pei

Re: Incident Mgmt Target Date Question

2012-03-22 Thread Hocks, Mike (DOT)
Hey good to know, thanks a lot Joe! Looks like I will have to switch gears from finding it in the config somewhere to customizations Thanks again! -Mike -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza

Re: Incident Mgmt Target Date Question

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I think it’s a good idea - afterall a target date as well as the SLA/OLA date is one and the same thing - the anticipated customer expectation of resolution or response.. You would however have to customize workflow to set it if you want to by picking it up from the SLM data. I do not think th

Incident Mgmt Target Date Question

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Hocks
Our environment is Remedy ITSM 7.6.04 I am wondering how the Target Date on an Incident Request can be automatically set based on our service target/SLAs/OLAs definition in SLM? I am going through the SLM configuration process and I am not seeing where I can configure this? Thoughts? Thanks,

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I have actually seen that – and its terrible.. I wasn’t surprised when I saw it.. They have always copied apple in some way or the other in their products, and brought out a bad MS imitation of apple :-) I thought when I saw demos of Windows 8, they tried to make it look like an iPad or an iPhon

Limiting who can add users

2012-03-22 Thread Peters, Ron
In the OOTB ITSM application, when an end user is creating an incident, instead of typing in the last name of the customer and pressing to search the people records, we have users that will press the '+' icon and 'add' a new customer. This ends that a people record is created in a 'proposed' st

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Yes but that From address gets its value from somewhere.. And that ‘somewhere’, the full name had to be processed to the ‘Remedy Login ID’ after searching for a match in the CTM:People or an equivalent user base form for the Login Name of that user. That’s the piece of workflow that is being byp

arsystem.ehcache.maxElementsInMemory - what whould it be set to for full ITSM midtier - box has 12GB memory

2012-03-22 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
Page 20 of performance tuning guide states for midtier This setting confused me - could use some help here to help identify the optimal setting for performance. If you want to allocate more memory to the JVM and your hardware has more physical memory available, increase the file so t

OT: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
:-) Point is I do not mind the change as long as the change is applied in the direction where it was intended to. The intent was to make the application more user friendly for first time users.. Great.. Absolutely no problems with that.. What about impacting billions of an already existing user

Re: OT: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Not to ruin your day further, but do a Google search for “Windows 8 Metro Interface” and prepare for your head to explode. I’m glad they are giving us an option to return the normal Windows 7-style interface (which like Lee, I am a fan of), but setting Metro as a default (and if you use an Xbox

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread patchsk
In our case it is even before touching any ITSM forms. User sends an email remedy inbox. Remedy parses it and creates an incoming email entry. There itself the From address has display name of the user instead of emailid. On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:59:23 PM UTC-5, Joe Martin D'Souza wrote: >

Re: OT: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Jason Miller
Joe, you sound like all of our customers/clients going from home grown apps to out off the box ITSM. ;) Jason On Mar 22, 2012 1:57 PM, "Joe Martin D'Souza" wrote: > ** > Windows 7 sucks interface wise. Nothings found where it used to be. When > I first started using it, it was frustrating to t

Re: OT: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Windows 7 sucks interface wise. Nothings found where it used to be. When I first started using it, it was frustrating to try to find simple things like changing your display size! Took me quite a bit to figure that out. Agreed it was nice of them to think of those starting to use windows for the

OT: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Larry Barnes
So Lee, are you saying that MS will take as long to get SCSM right as it did to go from Windows 3.1.1 to Windows 7 ;-o) L.B. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Lee Cullom Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Its an open ended question. We are sort of preparing to go down that path and I was trying to collect information on possible bottlenecks or points of failure. Since that utility has so far earned an almost ‘do-not-do-it’ kind of a reputation, I want to see if we could isolate the conditions u

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Easter, David
I guess that depends on what issues you’re referring to… In ITSM Suite 7.6.04 SP2, there were several advancements in BPCU: [cid:image001.png@01CD082F.C3FAEFA0] Fewer false positives [cid:image001.png@01CD082F.C3FAEFA0] Refined hash files [cid:image001.png@01CD082F.C3FAEFA0] Algorithm adjust

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

2012-03-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
:-) Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > Amol, > > BMC does not support Delta Data Migrator (DDM) for the initial data load, > only for delta migrations on upgraded systems (that's probably why it is > called DDM instead of DM) > > So for instance, if you have a new environment wi

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Thanks David.. Has it got any better to overcome the issues that were raised on the thread 7.6.04 Overlays - Want to keep my custom fields, but want the new format brought to our attention by Strauss? Some of those things pointed out in responses to that thread seem to be show stoppers from us

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Lee Cullom
This is an interesting topic to me... I think I barely stayed on-topic, so I didn't OT it, but feel free to move on with your life rather than reading... Microsoft is making inroads, but they still have little to no market share. They are now giving away SCSM when you own SCOM or SCCM. It's th

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The logic I've seen proposed is that they already have a lot of Microsoft technology (such as SCCM) and Microsoft seems to have provided the myth that they are better integrated in their tools than other vendors would be. Obviously, haven worked with AIE for a few integrations and implementing

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Brittain, Mark
Agree with Fred. Give BMC the opportunity to retain your business and take the load off your shoulders From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:40 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Re

Re: Atrium 7.6.04 SP1

2012-03-22 Thread PCR Remedy
Hi, can you share how was solved? Thanks you On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Brett Azzopardi wrote: > ATTN: Rick Cook > > Hi Rick, > > I am having issues with BMC support associating my issue to the similar if > not replicated problem that you had. Can I please ask for the INC number you > h

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
By any chance, for users that this is happening, is their information missing from the CTM:People form? I think in most of the ITSM out of the box workflow, the CTM:Pdople form is queried to set the value from the Remedy Login ID field from CTM:People to the any backend fields used for notific

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Tanner, Doug
John, you are shameless :) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager ** I don't think the qu

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread John Sundberg
I don't think the question of "better" is the right thing to chase. I think you want to chase the differentiators - and educate your audience -- they will decide "better". You will have 10x more respect if you avoid the term "better". If you talk about marketshare, dedication to the field, leader

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
If they are having an MS salesperson in then maybe you need to have a BMC salesperson in as well ... Apples to Apples Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:24 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sub

Re: Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Rick Cook
Remedy is far more mature on its processes and how the software supports them. Compare the CMDBs under the covers for a real good example. MS apps are aimed at the SMB stack for now. Not sure how they would scale. Don't let the focus be on the GUI - focus on comparing internals, like how would

Remedy ITSM Versus Microsoft Service Center System Manager

2012-03-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It looks like my newly merged company is going to evaluate different ITSM suites. Specifically, the evaluation is between keeping Remedy and going with Microsoft SCSM. From what I can tell BMC doesn't really consider SCSM a competing product so they don't have any literature available showing

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Easter, David
Best Practice Conversion Utility. -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 voluntary participation in this f

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I’ll review that thread soon. Thanks for leading me there. Yet another abbreviation :-) BPCU.. stands for Best Practice *** ***?? Customizations Upgrade? Cannot Upgrade?? :-).. OK seriously.. what is it? Joe From: strauss Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:56 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsys

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread patchsk
We are seeing this also at random and we are also on ITSM 7.6.03. Please post the solution if you get this resolved. I have posted same issue previously and also have worked with BMC. They were very helpful and we went through several iterations. We could not reproduce this consistently on our end

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread strauss
For starters, you actually might want to review my posts about this from last Spring when I was testing 7.6.03 and 7.6.04 upgrade scenarios (from ARS 7.1, ITSM 7.0.02/03, SLM 7.1, RKM 7.2), as well as the discussion several of us were having on BMCDN at the time: · [https://communities

Re: Users not able to access Mid-Tier via DNS alias but can access when using IP address

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I had to increase that parameter once for another reason.. the headers sent from certain logins would be larger than the default 8192 bytes (8K). This was caught when we logged the packets sent and received from IIS where tomcat was serving as a jsp engine. We saw no negatives on increasing it.

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
That’s interesting. What was your environment like? And what did BMC Support have to say about the failures you experienced? I have received a recent recommendation (as recent as yesterday noon) from a BMC representative who was on an onsite visit, that this file works in generating the needed

Re: BMC Atrium Core 7.6.04 - Product Catalog Data Update 2012-Jan-1

2012-03-22 Thread Easter, David
There is a thread about this on the BMC Developer Network: https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/233507 (and parallel thread): https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/233569 -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, Remedy Platform BMC Software, Inc.   The opinions, stat

Re: Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread strauss
If you are talking about using the hash file as a reference for BPCU to compare against, I found that it generated far too many false overlays to be useful. The second distribution of the hash file with 7.6.04 was actually worse, quadrupling the number of false overlays created by BPCU (all typ

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread El Ghali Yakoubi Soussane
Hi Joe, Thank you very much for your email. I'm indeed working on an out of the box ITSM application. Very minor customizations were brought to the system. This issue actually happens from time to time and gets fixed once the email engine is restarted. So from my point of view, it's only a matter

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I would also look at the original inbound email (which get's stored as an attachment in the AR System Email Messages form Advanced Options -> Attachment Alternatives tab). You can open the .eml file in Notepad to see the internet headers and compare the actual From field for a good email with a

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread Rick Cook
My first thought was that it might be an issue with the data not being consistently stored. Between Joe and me probably lies the answer. Rick On Mar 22, 2012 11:31 AM, "El Ghali Yakoubi Soussane" wrote: > ** > Hi Team, > > This is the first time I do contact you as recommended by a friend of >

Creating the overlay layer when ugprading from ARS & ITSM 7.6.03 to 7.6.04

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I would like to hear about your experiences with using the hash file available for ITSM 7.6.03 for creating the overlay layer when upgrading the platform and application to 7.6.04. I would like to hear from both, those who have had problems and have not successfully been able to upgrade, as wel

Re: First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Are you working with the out of the box (ITSM) application? Or is your system home grown (custom developed). I suspect, this could be a potential problem with customization. It could be a problem with your custom workflow (Filter or Escalation) is setting the full name in the notification, inste

First Contact

2012-03-22 Thread El Ghali Yakoubi Soussane
Hi Team, This is the first time I do contact you as recommended by a friend of mine. I need assistance concerning an issue with the email engine in ARS 7.6.03. The issue is that the email engine at a certain point of time starts getting emails wrongly. Rather than having the "From" field populated

BMC Atrium Core 7.6.04 - Product Catalog Data Update 2012-Jan-1

2012-03-22 Thread Sanford, Claire
Has anyone been able to download this? I tried 4 times and got everything else in the directory (6 of 7 items) but this one will not download. BMC Atrium Core 7.6.04 - Product Catalog Data Update 2012-Jan-1 Claire Sanford Information Systems Division Memorial Hermann Healthcare System System

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

2012-03-22 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Amol, BMC does not support Delta Data Migrator (DDM) for the initial data load, only for delta migrations on upgraded systems (that's probably why it is called DDM instead of DM) So for instance, if you have a new environment with 7.6.04 ITSM server, that was set up as a new install (not an up

Decision Tree Actions

2012-03-22 Thread Frank Caruso
ITSM 764 sp2 The Decision tree functionality in ITSM 764 appears to be almost exactly what is needed in our situation to replace lengthy Word documents. Simply walk a non experienced CSR down a set path. However, the Action Types do not appear to allow for a document (PDF, Word, XLS, etc) to be

Re: Performance Testing with HP PerformanceCenter

2012-03-22 Thread Dmitry Baryshnikov
And what version of the HP Load Runner did you use? Regards, Dmitry Baryshnikov On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:44 AM, patchsk wrote: > ** Even though you asked for Success story I am responding with our > unsuccessful story. > Not sure if HP Performance Center is new name for HP Load runner. > We tr

Re: Users not able to access Mid-Tier via DNS alias but can access when using IP address

2012-03-22 Thread John Sundberg
Uggg - that seems like a tough one to figure out. Good job. -John On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Jiri Pospisil < jiri.pospi...@lchclearnet.com> wrote: > ** > > Thanks all for their suggestions. > > ** ** > > The issue was at the end with maxHttpHeaderSize parameter in Tomcat > configurat

Re: Users not able to access Mid-Tier via DNS alias but can access when using IP address

2012-03-22 Thread Jiri Pospisil
Thanks all for their suggestions. The issue was at the end with maxHttpHeaderSize parameter in Tomcat configuration. It was set to 8K, but this was not enough for some users when being authenticated because Kerberos token sent in the header was larger than 8K and the result was broken HTTP requ

Re: Service Calls and $PROCESS$ Application-Copy-Field-Value

2012-03-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi Jose, I was just trying to blame someone else for my own mistake ;-) Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se > If we start to list what would be great at developer studio, this could be > the longest thread of the year. > > El jueves 22 de marzo de 2012, Misi Mladoniczky escribió:

Re: Scheduling approvals

2012-03-22 Thread Alberto M. Lopez
Finally, the error was in the escalations. They were deactivated. Thank you! 2012/3/21 Alberto M. Lopez > Hi all ! > > I have a question about approval engine. > > I've seen in the approval server guide that it's possible to schedule an > approval in the process definition of the approval serve

Re: Service Calls and $PROCESS$ Application-Copy-Field-Value

2012-03-22 Thread Jose Huerta
If we start to list what would be great at developer studio, this could be the longest thread of the year. El jueves 22 de marzo de 2012, Misi Mladoniczky escribió: > Hi, > > You will do best to ignore the original posting, I was wrong :-) > > I made something so simple as choosing the wrong orde

Re: Service Calls and $PROCESS$ Application-Copy-Field-Value

2012-03-22 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, You will do best to ignore the original posting, I was wrong :-) I made something so simple as choosing the wrong order of the parameters to Application-Copy-Field-Value. The correct order is Application-Copy-Field-Value ToFieldId FromFieldId It would be great if the DevStudio -> Expression

Re: Users not able to access Mid-Tier via DNS alias but can access when using IP address

2012-03-22 Thread Shiju John
Have you added the DNS entry in the HOSTS file? This file is present in *C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc* run notepad in administrator mode and add an entry as below in the HOSTS fiel: This will resolve the issue. Thanks and Regards, Shiju John. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:56 AM, patchsk wrot