Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Unix shell script to move indexes attached Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Matt Reinfeldt Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 5:27 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other

Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Jamie, Some years ago, I wrote a simple perl script to do this function. I'd have to dig around for it, but I don't remember being a complicated process. Should be fairly simple for someone to recreate, if needed. Matt -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(AR

Re: Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Goncalves de Oliveira seems Portuguese (very close to Spanish). Francisco Jesus Guillermo and María del Rosario Agripina are both Spanish... At Spain we have more than %, at your setup it would be more than 700 cases. Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:37 P

Re: Export though Golden Gate - exceeds field length

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
It could also be an unicode issue. Depending how is codified, the length in bytes could be different that the number of characters. Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Brittain, Mark wrote: > Golden Gate ___

Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Not sure, but I don't think it would recreate indexes. Index recreation is a hard task and it would be inefficient. But at soon you modify an index, or create a new one, then your DBA will have to act on them. Maybe your DBA can take a look at: http://theremedyforit.com/2011/12/case-insensitive-in

Re: Export though Golden Gate - exceeds field length

2012-08-24 Thread Brittain, Mark
Fred, You have a good memory, oracle. I will give that a try and see what I get. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 4:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.OR

Re: Export though Golden Gate - exceeds field length

2012-08-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Mark, I don't believe Word will count characters correctly as it will try to fix up things like carriage returns and such. If I remember correctly you are using Oracle. To get a correct count in SQL do a SELECT LENGTH(Cx) from T120 WHERE Fred -Original Message- From: Acti

Re: Remedy ITSM <- >DCTrack

2012-08-24 Thread Tommy Morris
Yes! Tommy Morris CMDB Certified Specialist Director of IT Service Management tommy.mor...@pinebreeze.com 817.727.1021 – mobile 972.899.2366 - office 972.899.2898 - fax -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of San

Remedy ITSM <- >DCTrack

2012-08-24 Thread Sanford, Claire
Has anyone here done an integration with Remedy and DCTrack? It is a Data Center management tool. ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 ARS 7.6.04 SP3 Oracle Win 2008 Server Claire Sanford Information Systems Division Memorial Hermann Healthcare System claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org __

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread Victor
Not all logs - just Active Link loggings. From your user tool klick Tools -> Options and select the Logging tab. Check "Active Links" from the Client section and provide a file name where the logs should be written in "Log File Path" field. Since the changes are visible in BMC.CORE forms I am su

Re: Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread Sanford, Claire
One way to do this is to get ARUtilities and look for just that field ID and it will search for it on all ITSM forms. That way you don't miss any. We had to do this with the email fields. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jose Manue

Export though Golden Gate - exceeds field length

2012-08-24 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All, I have an situation where we are trying to export data from the Remedy tables (e.g. T120) though Golden Gate and some records are being rejected because the incoming data exceeds the expected field/colmn size. If I take the character data from field and do a count in MS Word I get 992.

Re: Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread Shellman, David
Jiri, We have 67063 records in our employee data. We have two records where the last name is longer than 25 characters. They are HERENY GONCALVES DE OLIVEIRA and KORATIPARAMBIL MOHANDAS KAMATH Similar for first name, there are two records greater than or equal to 25 characters. They are FRAN

Re: Client

2012-08-24 Thread Easter, David
https://communities.bmc.com/communities/message/198072 "The Data Management Client is within the compressed ITSM install download. When you decompress it there will be a folder for the Data Management Client. After you install the Data Management Client look in the install path. There will b

Client

2012-08-24 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, Does anyone know where the link is or how I install the data management client on 7.6.4? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are

Re: Server Information shows Windows 6.1

2012-08-24 Thread Mauricio M.
Thank you both Kind Regards, Mauricio 2012/8/23 ITSM.Support > ** > > Hi, > > ** ** > > Yes, this is normal. We have observed this in our environment. This is > because of minor version of Windows server 2k8. > > ** ** > > -- > > Regards, > > Sunil > > ** ** > > Vyom Labs P

Re: VM Clone for ARS 7.6.04

2012-08-24 Thread Danny Kellett
Hi, I am on holiday so answering this on my phone. But the important part is getting the vm correct before you clone it. So, we utilise the local hosts file and call the system ars01. So when you install AR Server, you always call it that and it can resolve to itself. That way you won't have to m

Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Jamie
What about if you re-save the form. Does it re-create the indexes and LOBs? Also, we have concerns on how patches/upgrades would affect our split without using an ardb.conf. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Unless you are constantly creating new forms and indexes, once you move an index or LOB you shouldn't have to move it again. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jamie Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:35 A

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread kiran
I chked the same in user tool and it is not reflecting in ast formss But the ast forms are modified(modified datw got changed) Ie if i check in ast:comp systm,changes are not rwflected but if i check on bmc core comp system form,changes are appearing and in turn appearing in base elemnt as well

Re: VM Clone for ARS 7.6.04

2012-08-24 Thread T Wang
Danny, Do you mind to share your steps on this approach? Is your system (apps server) and DB on the same system or separate? Thanks On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Danny Kellett < danny.kell...@strategicworkflow.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, we do it for all our environments. Dev, test productio

Anyway to populate ardb.conf other than manual?

2012-08-24 Thread Jamie
Has anyone came up with a database script that can build out the ardb.conf? We're looking at splitting our indexes and LOBs into a seperate tablespace, however manually build of an ardb.conf would be very time consuming. We've been looking at ways to also do this without using an ardb.conf fil

Re: SOLVED RE: [EXTERNAL] 7.6.4 Classic View Issue

2012-08-24 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
I am used to flushing it when I did workflow changes just not data changes. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ibbi Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:56 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: SOLVED RE: [EXTERNAL] 7.6.4 Classic View

Re: CMDB error

2012-08-24 Thread Victor
Did you try merge order "By class in seperate transactions" option? Victor > ** > > Will generating a new ID resolve this issue? > > I am transferring from Source Dataset A (2000 records) to Destination > BMC.Asset (which is empty). > > The CIs should be created in BMC.Asset but the merge is f

Re: Monitoring use of Pending status on Incidents

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
IMHO, this is restrictive to the users. Imagine the case, the user is assigned to an incident that needs in-place support. But the customer requires us not to go until the next week. So, you are forcing the user to periodically add notes and change the status.And if he forgets one time... he can br

Re: CMDB error

2012-08-24 Thread Peter Romain
Are all the CIs in the source dataset getting identified (ReconciliationIdentity != "0")? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: 23 August 2012 21:27 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: CMDB error ** I am transfer

Re: Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Yes Jason, I know it, but I still have a doubt. When looking at the manual about the cache mode, it says that when trying to change an object and a user is using it, it waits giving priority to the users. But don't say that this apply to all the def file upload. For instance user is using form B (

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread Victor
Did you remember to flush the caches? If you can see the change in BMC.CORE:BaseElement form open an AST form with DevStudio and review the join information for the changed field. Activate AL log to check why the menu is not attached HTH Victor > Thanks a lot Victor. > > Suppose , if i dont

Re: Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
I think there is also a parameter, delay-recache-time or something that toucan set to prevent immediate copy cache functions. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Jason Miller wrote: ** Hi Jose, The way I understand it: object definitions are cached in memory; even for filters. Th

Re: Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Jason Miller
Hi Jose, The way I understand it: object definitions are cached in memory; even for filters. This is where Developer Cache Mode comes into play. When the server is in production mode (dev cache off) user threads get priority over admin changes. While your def is importing the system is building a

Re: Monitoring use of Pending status on Incidents

2012-08-24 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
We implemented an escalation to take the incident out of pending after xx hours and require user to enter a worklog note to put back into pending. Regards, Andrew C. Goodall Software Engineer Development Services ago...@jcpenney.com jcpenney 6501 Legacy Drive Plano, TX 75024 jcp.

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread kiran
Thanks a lot Victor. Suppose , if i dont see the changes in AST forms(but AST form got modified), but the change has happened in base element form, how do i debug it ? The field present in ast form which is inherited from base element is not reflecting the change while the field in base element i

Re: Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
No. Web services' definition is cached. But filter aren't. The mid tier makes the API call, and the rest is managed at the ARS. Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tauf Chowdhury wrote: > new filters w __

Re: Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
I'm just guessing here but since the web services are accessed via mid tier, won't they be using cached workflow and form defs? This would then enable the web services to still write data to the DB. Any new filters would probably kick in as they were imported. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2012,

Applying a change on production

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Hi, I'm preparing a big change for production. That means uploading a big def file, adding and modifying a lot of elements of a custom application. The problem is that this application is continually receiving info through web services. I know that current version of application is ok. I know the

Re: Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
It depends on the language and your case. I had to augment the number of characters of those fields in a system because: Spanish last names are always composed of two or more words. The likelihood of having more than 30 characters is high (more than 1%). My wife has more, for instance. Then, our

Re: Customizing view ID

2012-08-24 Thread Victor
Thanks, Misi Victor > Hi, > > If it can be changed in DevStudio, do so. > > If not, it might be necessary to export to DEF, change the id in an > editor, and reimport the DEF. > > There is also the archgid which I have not heard anything about in a long > time... > > Best Regards - Mi

Re: Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread John Sundberg
Here is another opinion... Don't do it. How many people in the world have a name that is longer than 30 chars first or last name? Few... Divide that by all the people in the world (and have ever lived) -- just in case you are cataloging everybody who has ever lived. I would say you are real

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread Victor
In this case you don't have to run sync UI. You can easily verify this by checking if the menu attached is already functioning without you running sync UI Make sure the caches are cleared Victor > Hi, > > I am NOT adding any custom fields to CMDB. > > I am just attaching a menu to an already

Re: Monitoring use of Pending status on Incidents

2012-08-24 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Jiri, >From running an IT org, this should be handled via reporting, department level meetings, etc... The software can only take you so far and it can always be gamed. That's why things like auditing, reviews, reports, an status meetings are important. My opinion is that these organizations should

Re: security risk with attachment - Any ideas?

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
What kind of files do you attach? A simple check would be to see the extension and block some of them. For instance to not allow .exe. Anyway, In one of our customers' system, users do upload files with virus. This is done intentionally and part of security incidents. An finally, the solution yo

Re: Monitoring use of Pending status on Incidents

2012-08-24 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
I currently have a great problem with this same situation. And the solution the curstomer is requiring to me is very complex: - The pending status must send a notification to key users. - If those key users have 4 hours to review the case, and if not correct they can deny the pending status. Th

Monitoring use of Pending status on Incidents

2012-08-24 Thread Jiri Pospisil
Hi all, I was wondering if there is anybody who implemented any kind of additional monitoring or functionality around the Pending status on Incident. We are seeing here that it is widely used by users as our SLAs are defined to pause the clock once the status is set to Pending with certain value

Re: Use of sync ui

2012-08-24 Thread kiran
Hi, I am NOT adding any custom fields to CMDB. I am just attaching a menu to an already existinf field. Please let me know if i have to run sync UI or not ? NOTE: I am not adding any new fields to cmdb. Regards, Kiran On 8/23/12, Remedy wrote: > All that sync UI is really doing is adding th

Extending First and Last Name fields on Incident form

2012-08-24 Thread Jiri Pospisil
Hi, As it stands, First and Last Name fields on Incident form are both limited to 30 characters, which we find in some cases insufficient and would like to extend the length to say 100 characters each. I can imagine the impact of such change might be rather wide as those fields are referred in