Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-26 Thread Kali Obsum
Hi, Since it is not possible to select multiple assets and Relate them With Unavailability in one go, has anybody implemented any work around for this? Our process entails that for some changes, we need to bulk relate hundreds of assets (e.g. patching). Raised this with BMC and they asked us

Re: Cannot Run Web Report Type

2012-03-26 Thread Ssch Bmc
Hi, I have the same problem using a weblo in 10.3.4 with ARS 7604 SP3, but not weblogic.xml to modify Any Idea Thanks ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com

DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread vidyasagar kommu
Hi All, I want to send one form data in to another form two different AR servers when i am submiting form of source server the same date is pushed to another server with specified form in That i have created one DSO and fileter i have created in the filter i am calling my DSO The data is not

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-26 Thread Ben Chernys
Of-course, any bulk data operation can be done with a simple Meta-Update script. No server changes or workflow needed at all. No programming skills needed at all. Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Software Tool House Inc. Canada / Deutschland / Germany Mobile: +49 171

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread Shiju John
Hi, Check if the DSO service - serverds.exe is running in your server. if not check in the armonitor.cfg, if the corresponding line for serverds.exe is commented or not. Thanks and Regards, Shiju John On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM, vidyasagar kommu kommuvidyasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All,

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread Ann Brown
Sagar, A couple of questions Is the DSO process running on your target server? The form that is mentioned in the Mapping, Does this exist on the other Server? Can you sending server, see the destination server? at an operating level? is the destination server declared in your hosts file? Thanks

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread vidyasagar kommu
Hi Shiju John I have checked below command to check whether the serverds is running or not ps -ef | grep serverds | wc -l I got a reply 1 that means I think server is running properly could you please sugessest if anything wrong for checking the server running or not. I have checked

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread vidyasagar kommu
Hi Ann Q) Is the DSO process running on your target server? Ans) Yes it is running. Q) The form that is mentioned in the Mapping, Does this exist on the other Server? Ans) Yes it is exist on the other (Target Server). Q) Can you sending server, see the destination server? at an operating

Re: Look up ITSM messages in ARE|RRR

2012-03-26 Thread Jon Slaven
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Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread Ann Ctl
Sagar, What operating system are you running the server on? Windows? Or unix? On unix the hosts file is in /etc On windows its in windows\system32\drivers\etc If you look at the file you will see the format for entering server names. You must use the server name that you use in

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread vidyasagar kommu
Hi Ann, we are using Unix opertaing system(SunOS 5.10). Could you please suggest how to restart the DSO Server . without restarting the DSO please find the below arerror.log Source server arerror logs: Mon Mar 26 06:16:10 2012 390620 : Failed to open ignore word file (ARERR 659) Mon Mar 26

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Hi Axton, At the time Sun was on sale, my understanding was the first potential buyer was IBM, then Oracle jumped in. I truly believe that IBM getting Sun would have been much worse, since they already have hardware (server and storage) a UNIX OS, database, etc. I think the only thing from Sun

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
John, I believe the fundamental question is whether Kinetic would ever be for sale, not whether BMC would want to swallow them. I believe that Kinetic will not be ever for sale, they have a solid road map of products. Why sale when you're doing great? I mean the only kind of people that would

JOB: Sr. Remedy Administrator/Developer - Denver, CO

2012-03-26 Thread Candace
The SR. REMEDY ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER should be comfortable with, and have a good understanding of, the ITIL framework, and must have experience with previous IT Service Management (ITSM) releases (7 preferred). The SR. REMEDY ADMINISTRATOR/DEVELOPER will oversee and work with an implementation

Re: Sr. Remedy Administrator/Developer - Denver, CO

2012-03-26 Thread richard....@bwc.state.oh.us
You left out the part about walking on water... :) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Candace Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 10:44 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: JOB: Sr. Remedy Administrator/Developer - Denver, CO ** The SR. REMEDY

Re: Sr. Remedy Administrator/Developer - Denver, CO

2012-03-26 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
MCSE? Really? Is that even a certification anymore? On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:55 AM, richard@bwc.state.oh.us richard@bwc.state.oh.us wrote: ** You left out the part about walking on water… J *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG]

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread Ann Ctl
Sagar, This suggests that the information you are sending is a duplicate of information already there. And that there is a unique index on a field or fields in the form you are sending to. So in you from mapping what exactly are you doing? Are you sending information with ownership Or

Re: Sr. Remedy Administrator/Developer - Denver, CO

2012-03-26 Thread Logan, Kelly
Sounds more like a real Senior position definition to me, rather than the usual 'Senior = worked on Remedy once or twice'. I'd feel comfortable putting my resume up against this job definition, but I'd be looking for six figures and a good benefit package for a broad set of responsibilities

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-26 Thread Axton
I don't see the future as bright for the Sparc line when I see numbers like these: http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh032612-story09.html They are also pushing Hitachi and Fujitsu out of the equation because it is not as profitable (per this article). How long do you think Oracle will keep an

Oracle / Sun / Research (was Kinetic Request at WalMart)

2012-03-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Axton, I agree with your analysis about the contradiction between short term profit gains and long term research and development, which necessitates several years of investment that may not result in any visible gains. That's why even Bill Gates, with all the $$ that Microsoft has, has called

Re: Oracle / Sun / Research (was Kinetic Request at WalMart)

2012-03-26 Thread patrick zandi
I think Ellison is correct: nothing new under the sun here.. IF you take over a company alot of folks bail for a little while, until you are proven that you have the Stick to the product and have some backing:: I will keep this steadfast.. otherwise who wants a product that is good for 2 years,

Re: Oracle / Sun / Research (was Kinetic Request at WalMart)

2012-03-26 Thread patrick zandi
Bad typing.. thinking faster than fingers.. bad bad bad.. sorry folks.. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: I think Ellison is correct: nothing new under the sun here.. IF you take over a company alot of folks bail for a little while, until you are proven

Re: Look up ITSM messages in ARE|RRR

2012-03-26 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
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Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-26 Thread patchsk
We had to do the same thing in our organization. 1.You could bulk relate multiple CI to change ticket out of the box. In the CI search window search for a CI name pattern and multiple select and click relate. It will relate all of them to change tkt. 2. Then we have an escalation which will

Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Hi, I'm one of those that has found it necessary to use the flush cache button in the mid tier config when sometimes certain changes aren't picked up at the regular cache check interval. Do you all consider a flush of the mid tier cache to be unintrusive - something that can be done during

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Brien Dieterle
In my experience flushing the cache IS intrusive. Every once in a long while I can't resist it any long and I start enthusiastically pressing that big, red, SHINY button. Then the phone calls start trickling in. I wish I knew why. It didn't always seem to be this way, but I can't be sure.

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Nathan Aker
It won't disconnect any sessions but it will clear all form and workflow caches which will result in slowness to the first user to pull up any form that has not been used since the recache while the midtier reloads the form and object definitions from the server. Additionally if you have

Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-26 Thread John Baker
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Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Thanks, Brien. What problems do your users report when this happens? David -Original Message- From: Brien Dieterle [mailto:brien.diete...@cgcmail.maricopa.edu] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Cc: David Durling Subject: Re: Effects of flushing midtier

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
Very intrusive. Off hours - if you have a lot of users, the performance will cripple while cache rebuilds. Our average CPU comsumption goes from 20% to 70-80% during rebuild of cache. We take server off load balancer until server has completed rebuild of cache. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
When would you need to flush cache? The obvious answer is when there is a workflow change on production.. Changes to workflow are done whenever there is need for code change for enhancement or bug fixes.. The general industry practice is to manage these changes in a change window, where there

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
If you have the full ITSM suite, then in my experience it takes about 1 hour to completely recache (just over 1 GB of cache) and for CPU consumption to fall back within normal range. That is not a brief disruption :) Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services |

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Brien Dieterle
I'm pretty sure it was invalid session errors. I agree with the sentiment that changes should be done after-hours. However, that doesn't solve the puzzle of why the default definition check interval of 60 minutes can (usually) successfully implement any changes *without* negatively affecting

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Good to know, though in our case we have a small installation: just custom AR System forms with up to 60-70 users at a time, and when I've flushed the cache the action only seems to take a few seconds. The points about production changes are good ones. Thanks, David -Original

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
You're right - that’s certainly not brief.. Depending on the specifications of your mid-tier boxes, and what you have on the AR Server it may not be so brief. In most of my experience, it has been significantly less than an hour to rebuild the cache files. I have been on sites with the new

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Thanks for the information, Brien. It seems to be only certain types of changes that are not carried over. In this case, apparently a table definition change did not take. David -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
That brings us to a discussion we were having a few weeks or maybe days ago.. why rebuild the entire cache.. why not an overhaul which checks for the delta and rebuilds only the delta.. You would have thought that’s a very basic idea (like the thick client where it compares timestamps to

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
David, If the admin interface displays that the cache has been flushed successfully, which it will if there was no communication between your mid-tier admin client and the mid-tier server, it does not mean the operation as a whole is complete.. That message should have been rephrased

Production changes (spin-off of RE: Effects of flushing midtier cache)

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Joe brought up an issue I already had questions relating to, being: what workflow IS okay to change on a production AR server during production hours? For instance, if I have an app on a production box that is being tested by users and is not itself production, am I endangering other things on

Re: Effects of flushing midtier cache

2012-03-26 Thread strauss
I agree; normally you don't flush or pre-load unless you migrate a change, or apply a service pack, and then you should always do it during scheduled maintenance. Instead of flushing the cache after installing 7.6.04 SP3 I chose to set pre-load on, and restart the tomcat instances after the

Re: Production changes (spin-off of RE: Effects of flushing midtier cache)

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
The short answer is none.. Anything that may cause the server to re-cache its definitions, should not be promoted to the production server during peak hours of usage. But then there you might have other things to consider.. 1) Have portions of the system been rendered unusable as a result of

Re: Production changes (spin-off of RE: Effects of flushing midtier cache)

2012-03-26 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I hit the send button too early.. Changes to Filters Filter Guides, Escalations would not impact the mid-tier server in any way.. They would however impact the caching of the AR Server itself.. which could again have an impact on the usability of the AR Server which the mid tier is connected

Re: Production changes (spin-off of RE: Effects of flushing midtier cache)

2012-03-26 Thread David Durling
Thanks, Joe Chris Andrew ( others) - Except for the mid-tier flush - which I'm not sure about in all my users' cases, I'm pretty sure my users don't experience outages from these changes in general. We are well under 100 logged-in users at any given time. In addition to performance issues

Re: DSO Issue

2012-03-26 Thread Vikram
hi, Also can you check if the passwords match for the local and target DSO and mention the same at the admin page. The error says cannot access the form it can be permission issue. Just make sure the passwords are the same to be on safe side change them for local DSO, target DSO and update