Re: Learn Remedy Script - Reg

2012-10-01 Thread Suresh Loganathan
Hi Ratul/Joel, Thanks for your swift respone. I understand your ideas. Please refer my below info. DMT tool : If i use this tool, it will take a lot of time. ie., i have 3000+ records. it vl take more time consuming. Import Tool : if i use this tool, it vl affect only people form not others.

Re: webservice integration via middleware

2012-10-01 Thread Robin Mathew
Thanks Vamsi,LJ and Karthick for your replies. Out of Tibco,webmethods and custom java tool,which one is the best middleware? What are its benefits? How to implement it? How much is the approximate cost for the tool? How many days effort is required for implementing it? Regards Robin

Re: Learn Remedy Script - Reg

2012-10-01 Thread Sylvain YVON
Hi, A few years ago, before there was a DMT, I had a similar requirement. So I wrote an SQL script that searched every known character field (from the FIELD table) on every form for references to known login IDs. The script took a night to execute. Then, from the result, I generated a list of

Re: Learn Remedy Script - Reg

2012-10-01 Thread Halleux, Jean-Louis
Hello, Do not forget that changing the login needs to be done in any row of any table, as the submitter, the assignee or the status history could contain the login. As Sylvain did, I wrote a script (for Oracle) that reads all character fields from the database, and dynamically creates update

Re: SQL or Oracle

2012-10-01 Thread Theo Fondse
Sandra, Both SQL Server and Oracle are pretty stable. I prefer Oracle because of the following reasons 1) Performs faster than MS SQL under ANY load especially when you have huge databases running huge transaction volumes. 2) Has more functionality than MS SQL - especially when it comes to

Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Hi listers, When opening a menu we see a big delay. The log retrieved at the client is: CLAT /* lun oct 01 2012 12:38:23.861 */+API call, Procedure #55 API TID: 004740 RPC ID: 0001075159 Queue: List Client-RPC: 390620USER: S013802 /* lun oct 01 2012 12:38:59.8080 */+EXPQRY

Re: Learn Remedy Script - Reg

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
My recommendation is: don't be evil if possible! Directly changing values at the database is being evil! Regards, Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Halleux, Jean-Louis jean-louis.hall...@scarlet.biz wrote: Do not forget that changing the login

Re: Learn Remedy Script - Reg

2012-10-01 Thread Karthik
What is the use ase here? why do you want domain name to be prefixed? -Karthik On 1 October 2012 16:16, Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén arsl...@theremedyforit.com wrote: ** My recommendation is: don't be evil if possible! Directly changing values at the database is being evil! Regards, Jose

Re: SRM - Blank requests

2012-10-01 Thread Christine Milton Hall
The request record does get created successfully just blank! Right now we are using just the standard SRM SRDs and AOTs, simple design, nothing complex. I have received a few ideas and will let you know how we make out! Thanks so much for everyone's response! Thanks c From: Action Request

Re: webservice integration via middleware

2012-10-01 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Robin, I have used both WebMethods and Tibco, both seem to be good tools that are flexible and able to do the job needed. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Robin Mathew Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 12:27

Re: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Jose, I would agree that you were waiting on a List thread. Have you run an arloganalyzer on a larger sample of the log to determine if you are thread bound? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jose Manuel

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Doug Blair
Michael, There is a different font used in your second screen shot. Notice the shape of the upper case letter C in Customer ID. Were these two images captured on the same machine? One of them has the desired font, the other is using a default font from the same family (e.g. Helvetica, Arial,

Re: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Sylvain YVON
Jose, Have you tried to run the SQL query yourself ? Does it return a large number of records ? Do you perhaps have many records but few distinct values ? Don't trust the timestamps to much. Sometimes the log is written after the command was executed. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Longwing, LJ

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Jason Miller
We also reported this when upgrading 7.6.04 to a pre-GA version of 8.0. The clarity came back once we restored the VM to 7.6.04. If it is a font change it happens during the upgrade. Jason On Oct 1, 2012 6:45 AM, Doug Blair d...@blairing.com wrote: ** Michael, There is a different font used

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Axton
Windows 7 does this as well through their cleartype changes. Why they call it cleartype and it makes things fuzzy is beyond me. Did your workstation move from XP to Win7? On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Doug Blair d...@blairing.com wrote: ** Michael, There is a different font used in your

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Sylvain YVON
Have you use a tool like Firebug to examine the labels ? I'd bet it's just a change in ARSystem.css. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: ** Windows 7 does this as well through their cleartype changes. Why they call it cleartype and it makes things fuzzy is beyond

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Jason Miller
To add a little more info... we upgraded our QA environment that wasn't being used at the time. QA has different servers for DB, app and web, all 2008. I experienced the change in clarity from my Win 7 PC. I compared our 7.6.04 test environment to pre-GA 8.0 QA environment side by side in IE8 on

Re: SRM - Blank requests

2012-10-01 Thread remedy
Hi Christine, I have seen this several times as well. The Service Requests is submitted without Questions/Answers (responses). It seems to be random. The Questions/Answers still exist in the SRD:MultipleQuestionResponse form, but do not have an SR Instance ID I have been able to fix those

Re: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The API-timestamps is always correct, and in this case the API-call and SQL-call executes very quickly, so the problem is not that the API/SQL executes slowly. What is your count on List threads? To seems extraordinary that you need to wait 30 seconds before a List thread is available. You

Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Shaffer
ARS 7.6.04 SP 4ITSM 7.6.04 SP 2 My IT department is moving from another product to Remedy. In the current product, they currently are able to send notifications to interested parties that are not the customer, the contact, the assigned individual or the owner group. The notifications can

Re: Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Roger J
I will be the first to suggest you review the capabilities that Xmatters can provide. www.xmatters.com/ I am not affiliated with Xmatters. -Original Message- From: Kevin Shaffer kevin_l_shaf...@hotmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 12:09 pm Subject:

Re: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Problem discovered! The root cause was at the Oracle Server. The Oracle server is shared and one application went mad. So the Oracle got stuck at sometimes, blocking all SQL queries, but only at some moments. The result: All threads blocked, and the rest of users waiting for a thread to be

OT: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
...and that ends the Oracle vs. SQL debate. :) kidding Sent from my iPhone On Oct 1, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén arsl...@theremedyforit.com wrote: ** Problem discovered! The root cause was at the Oracle Server. The Oracle server is shared and one application went mad. So the

Re: Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
I only see two solutions without coding: - Use milestones and action of SLM: Don't like it at all, since users will see SVT attached to their incidents. - Use a generic group mail address. Then create rules at the email server (you can do it if you have Lotus, Exchange, Zimbra or similar email

Re: [EXTERNAL] Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Stroud, Natalie K
Kevin: You *might* be able to use SLM notifications for this, and I think the thing you want to look at first is whether you can link these notifications via milestone to the service targets you're going to be using anyway. If you're going with Response and Resolution time targets, SLM might

Changing the content of a diary field with filters

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Hi listers, I have a requirement: To modify the content of the new addition to the diary field: from a web service! That means to use filters. The requirement, is that if a pattern like S## (the user ID) is found at the text, the name is added inside. For instance, if at the diary the next

Re: Changing the content of a diary field with filters

2012-10-01 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Jose, The Remedy interface as BMC presents it does not have the ability to 'modify' a diary content. The only option to do that is to do it with the API with a 'merge' action. But for your scenario, yes, present a display only char field as your diary, then do a setfield in workflow to the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Karthik
I have not done this, but i beleive this can be done relatively quickly. 1. Create a form to hold rules, Dls/email ids for which corresponding emails have to be sent and also unique notification tag for each rule 2. Create a simple form to hold incident ids(Minimal cstomization to core modules).

Re: Analizing a client log

2012-10-01 Thread Jason Miller
One of my past systems shared the Oracle Server with the HR system (and one other thing that I can't remember). Every other Monday was a painful day for our Service Desk because of payroll. Payroll was more critical than Remedy :) Jason On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Jose Manuel Huerta

Re: Notification Recommendations

2012-10-01 Thread Logan, Kelly
Couldn't you also use People profiles to represent groups like HR and then set Notification Preferences to create rules to match these circumstances? If this worked, you could give a login to a supervisor in these groups so they could change their notification preferences themselves as well.

Re: Changing the content of a diary field with filters

2012-10-01 Thread Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén
Just to clarify, I don't want to change the old content, just the new sentence that the user wants to add. Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC lj.longwing@mda.mil wrote: Jose, The Remedy interface as BMC presents it

Re: Changing the content of a diary field with filters

2012-10-01 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Yes, but if the web service is setting itand you have a filter that is ALSO setting ityou are setting it twiceyou want to change what they are putting in it to what you want to put in it...so that's a change to the 'existing' value -Original Message- From: Action

Re: Fuzzy Midteir

2012-10-01 Thread Benz, Michael
Hi All Yes I also noticed the different font. These screenshots were taken on the same machine, Running windows 7 both in IE, at the same time (we have a test and prod midteir, we upgraded test to the latest version) I’lll open it up in chrome and look at the CSS files and let you know my

Self Service User Licenses

2012-10-01 Thread Mike Hocks
My environment is 7.6.04 in windows w/ sql backend Where do I adjust the number of concurrent self-service user licenses? I have purchased additional self-service license packs and I want to update my system so we can allow for the additional users (non-support staff) to login in to

Re: Self Service User Licenses

2012-10-01 Thread Easter, David
Self-service licenses are paper licenses that represent entitlement - there's no place that you have to enter them. -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, AR System BSM Atrium Solutions Management BMC Software, Inc.   The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action 

Re: Self Service User Licenses

2012-10-01 Thread Hocks, Mike (DOT)
Awesome...so my self service users will never see any not enough license error messages... Thanks for the quick reply. Michael Hocks (651) 366-4091 mike.ho...@state.mn.us Sent from my iPhone On Oct 1, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Easter, David david_eas...@bmc.com wrote: Self-service licenses are

Re: Self Service User Licenses (named or floating)

2012-10-01 Thread Howard Richter
One question are they named licenses or floating? Take care, Howard -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Hocks, Mike (DOT) Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 6:26 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Self