David Zifchock is out of the office

2012-03-29 Thread David Zifchock
I will be out of the office starting 03/29/2012 and will not return until 04/02/2012. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Ben Chernys
Fred. You are correct. It is ARS that keeps data with x’0a’ only on all databases and all platforms. Not sure what happens if you try to force in an x’0d’ through the API (if it will be dropped or not). Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Description: logoSthInc-sm

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread arslist
The call for Papers should be happening within a week, so if Joe and Rod could talk and create a panel and submit, that would be great. [Ironically I was trying to do the same thing last year, but I tend to be a bit busy around conference time J]. Daniel From: Action Request

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Jose Huerta
I think that Developer Studio is not as good as it must be. You all talk about the great leap made from the admin tool to the developer studio. But under my point of view it's is like going from a very bad application to a bad application. Have you seen other developer studios (like the

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Shellman, David
Joe, I agree that it would be could for you to do a presentation at WWRUG12. I know the feeling about being mortified standing in front of an audience. I did a presentation at WWRUG in San Francisco years ago. I find that if deep down you understand the subject, the presentation will be

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Jose, I think some of the points you mention are not applicable in the ARS world, since as you very well know, ARS is not a 3rd generation language like java or .net. The general consensus is that ARS is greater than a 4th generation language, it's either 4.5 or 5th generation. As a point of

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When Developer Studio first came out, I was suspicious because it appeared to be part of a huge shift toward making Remedy more Java-like. Consider that Developer Studio is basically just a customized version of Eclipse, which is the IDE quite a few Java developers use, and also keep in mind

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Its not about knowing the subject.. I’ve always had stage fright. I had kind of got over it for a while when I started participating in social activities that exposed me to attention like that so I get over the whole stage fright issue.. Just that I haven’t done a lot lately. Last time I ever

Re: ARS 7.6.03 performance problems

2012-03-29 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Folks, I wrote to you a couple of months ago regarding a performance problem I am experiencing with my 7.6.03 Remedy system. Specifically, the problem is with my Mid-tier servers in that their performance degrades throughout the day. I have taken to restarting the arserver processes via cron

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
There is always room for improvisations.. That’s why we have patches to fix what's not working and new versions for adding new features.. If the app was perfect, there would be no need for patches and future versions.. These were not Doug’s exact words but something that he more or less said

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Shawn I think I get your point about would like the ability to do more powerful development on AR System, which if I understand you correctly, it would mean being able to do structural or object oriented programming. This is a common thing, I believe, with tech folks that have knowledge of

JOB: Remedy/CLM Consultant Needed in Chantilly, VA

2012-03-29 Thread Anne Vieira
The BMC Administrator Remedy Developer will be a key resource to the Enterprise Remedy Team located in Chantilly, Virginia. The role is to assist in the development, testing, documenting, deploying and maintaining of the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) Protal. This includes building,

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-29 Thread patchsk
That really depends on your business case. In our organization when we load CIs into CMDB one of the attributes we flag on the CI is if it is Monitored: Yes/No. And when a monitored CI is related to change tkt, upon approval of the change tkt we create an unavailability record. If the CI related

Re: ARS 7.6.03 performance problems

2012-03-29 Thread Axton
Well constructed post. It gives me a lot to work with when thinking about your problem. I applaud you for that. The interesting thing is that a restart of either the Tomcat servers or the ARServer fixes your issue. This throws an unknown variable into the mix (a monkey wrench, of sorts). If

Re: DevStudio Tool

2012-03-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Guillaume, There are some things that we do in Remedy that I think would be easier if you could branch out into a subroutine with some sort of coding language. Basically, what I want is to replicate what is currently being done via plugins called via Run Process actions, and put that natively

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-29 Thread Jiri Pospisil
When you talk about CIs, do you mean CIs representing servers or do you go more granular when turning off monitoring, i.e. specific software/service on a server? Would really be interested to hear more details about your process. Thanks Jiri Pospisil LCH Clearnet From: Action Request System

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-29 Thread Rick Cook
I put in an RFE for this in 7.5. You would think it would have been addressed ny now. Rick On Mar 26, 2012 4:31 AM, Kali Obsum kali.ob...@macquarie.com wrote: ** Hi, ** ** Since it is not possible to select multiple assets and Relate them With Unavailability in one go, has anybody

RD WebEx (BMC Atrium Ask The Experts)

2012-03-29 Thread Matt Laurenceau
Hi all. Subbiah Sundaram http://www.linkedin.com/pub/subbiah-sundaram/0/552/518 (Sr Director, Product Mgmt, BMC Atrium platform) orchestrated a meeting with Architects earlier this month. - Where you able to participate? - Was it valuable for you? Another one is planned for *April 10th*.

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-29 Thread patchsk
Hi Jiri, I see your concerns but with automated solutions there would be special cases that need separate handling. Our main goal is to relieve our NOC and event mgmt teams from manually start/stop monitoring. Most part the automated unavailability records seems to be working fine for us

Re: Bulk Relate with Unavailability - ITSM 7.6.03

2012-03-29 Thread patchsk
Our CI are both hardware and applications. Event Mgmt is one of the things that our mgmt is very concerned about. Our monitors are very granular and we configured monitors for hardware(cpu,memory,disk io etc..), applications(urls,transactions,performance, logins, java heap size) and more. On

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

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Hodges
There is quite a lot of information about the various parameters in the mid tier guide (in the configuring the mid-tier chapter, cache settings section) maxElementsInMemory is a total count that is actually ignored in favour of referenceMaxElementsInMemory, which seems to be set to 1250 by

AIE: Data Exchange

2012-03-29 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
Hi, We have 2 instances of AIE data exchanges. One of the instances points to QA, and the other instance points to DEV. We want both instances to point to DEV. I have never done this before. Is this difficult to modify? I looked at the instances in AIE, and I am sorting thru this

suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Sam Anderson
Hi All, As a beginner . Is there any other helpful material or website other than BMC product documents and BMC training programs by which one can start to improve their knowledge in Remedy. Or any tutorials ..? Not to mention Arlist, BMC docs..as everyone knows that they are of great use...:)

Re: suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
When I was new to this stuff (but back then the system was not as complex as it may be now) I found that my learning path grew really fast once I started to take a view of what happens under the covers – especially the database. Its good to have a solid understanding of the database, although

Question:7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4

2012-03-29 Thread Dee
Hello List, Is 7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4, AIX 6.1 ? Is 7.6.04 MT can be deployed on webshpere 8, AIX 6.1? - Has anyone encounter issues with the above senarios? Compatibility Matrix indicates yes to the above, but we got conflicting answers when posed to BMC for

Re: suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Dee
If you are inheriting a system, go thru and map out the processes and look at how the active links/filters/etc written. Stuff I come across, I don't see these tricks in any training guide/document from 6.3 upwards, can't speak to doc/training guides prior. (`!) - at the end of filter name -

Re: suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Dee
CORRECTION.. If you are inheriting a system, go thru and map out the processes and look at how the active links/filters/etc written. Stuff I come across, I don't see these tricks in any training guide/document from 6.3 upwards, can't speak to doc/training guides prior. (`!) - at the end of

Re: Question:7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Yes to 1).. Never had to try 2) Joe -Original Message- From: Dee Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:25 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Question:7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4 Hello List, Is 7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible

Resolved: Question:7.6.04 MT Backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4

2012-03-29 Thread Dee
Thanks Joes. Additional info, we only use ARServer, not ITSM/Atruim production to which cause the confusion. So, Only ARS - 7.6.04 MT 64bit on websphere 8 is backward Compatible to ARS 7.5Patch4, all on AIX 6.1. If ITSM/Atruim, then 7.6.04 MT 64bit (not sure about websphere 8) should point to

Re: ARS 7.6.03 performance problems

2012-03-29 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Axton, Thanks for reading and for your suggestions. I have done a little bit of JVM monitoring. I used jconsole, since it was already there and was easy enough to startup. I watched the various heaps over a weeks time and I didn't see anything alarming. GC seemed to be happening regularly and

Re: ARS 7.6.03 performance problems

2012-03-29 Thread Axton
jvisualvm will give you more in depth cpu profiling capabilities if run from the server. This will give a cpu time per method call. You can also get memory profiling statistics (how much memory is used for each class, how many instances there are of each class, etc.). jvisualvm should be

Re: suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Shellman, David
Sam, Not sure where you live/work. If you're lucky enough to be in an area that has a local RUG, these are great to places to learn and make connections with other users in the area. Of course there is WWRUG12 in San Jose in October. Dave From: Action

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Shellman, David
I'm not an expert at the DB timestamps. The way I read the data though is that it is 27 Mar 2012 at 12:05:05 AM and the database is set with a 4 hour offset from UTC (Daylight Savings). Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Thanks. I just had a colleague confirm what you just said.. the –4:00 is to get the Greenwich time, and that 12:05:05 AM is the actual local time that the delete transaction happened.. Are there any Remedy processes that can possibly happen that might escape the probe of these 4 internal logs

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
In Oracle you can convert it using the following NEW_TIME(SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(datetime_with_timezone), 'GMT', 'US/Eastern') So it would be SELECT NEW_TIME(SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(column), 'GMT', 'US/Eastern') from table I haven’t checked lately, but I know that previously not all of the actions

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread patchsk
In ITSM 7.6.03+ there is this new feature when you create a new people entry it creates a CI in Person class of CMDB. I would imagine it has to run automated reconciliation jobs to do that. I am not sure if it has any role to play with what you are seeing in your environment. And these should be

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
We did think of that – but because we didn’t see anything on the 4 logs that I turned on, I thought it can’t possibly be that.. There was not a single delete action logged on the sql logs and yet there were thousands of CTM:People Permission Groups entries just gone.. Is there anything that

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread patchsk
You might have checked this already. Just for my understanding when these records got deleted did you notice if there are any changes to CTM:People record: Last Modified By etc? On Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:49:39 PM UTC-5, Joe Martin D'Souza wrote: ** We did think of that – but because

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I have checked so many things since finding out this problem 2 weeks ago that I lost track of what I ruled out – but I’m almost certain that no changes were made to that date there – its one of the first things I think I checked.. I do know for a fact that the User form records are untouched

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Joe, The only way for that to happen (in my experience) is something performing outside of the system. Even if you have workflow that is firing direct SQL it would show up in the logs. It has to be initiated external to ARS. I would look for system scripts or external connections to the DB from

Re: suggestions

2012-03-29 Thread Easter, David
There are also the BMC Communities (BMC Developer Network): https://communities.bmc.com/communities/ -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

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Jase Brandon
Joe...just a shot in the dark here...did you check web services? Maybe some web service against an external employee dbase? Again...just a thought. Hope this helps... On 3/29/12, Joe Martin D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: We are having an issue with our Remedy application, where it appears that

Re: Sort of OT: Question for timezone experts out there..

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
That’s exactly what I told my team. I even asked if they had another server outside the server group pointing to that same database doing something and got a negative. I’m still gathering information.. Is there a way to capture what IP or session a transaction came to the server? Joe From: