Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread Sylvain YVON
William, Rick, Just curious, can you please tell us if you are/were mounting your SAN FS via NFS (which version) or iSCSI (on ethernet or fiber) ? Thanks. Sylvain On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:48 PM, laurent matheo wrote: > ** > Hi, > > We also had some problems with FTS on 7.6.04 sp2 and on Windows

Re: Midtier Loadbalancer is not working - Any suggestion ? - URGENT - Resolved.

2013-02-04 Thread syed Ziyan
Thanks Fred John and others who provided their help and suggestions. Finally the issue was resolved. We have added the entry in all hosts file as well as Infra team has changed it to sticky session at LB end. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Grooms, Frederick W < frederick.w.gro...@xo.com> wrote

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread Parekar, Rahul
If this is Incident Management Console hang issue then you may want to refer defect SW00422595. Regards, Rahul From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of kunal das Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 4:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Cri

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread Brock, Anne
Right - there are two chats at the moment: Agent to agent chat in the back end, where you install a chat server and it allows agents to chat with each other and include that chat in the ticket. There is no charge for this BMC Chat/my-eService allows the automated answers as well as end user to

ADDM Synchronization causing AR Server memory leak

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Ellis
HI, Has anyone encountered a situation whereby the synchronization of data between ADDM and AR Admin server has caused the physical memory on the ar server to be chewed up? We are seeing between 6% & 8% of physical memory on our ar server is being chewed up on a daily basis whilst the ADDM syn

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread kunal das
Vaibhav has provided the correct must have Overview performance hotfix.. However you need to check the people record of the users and based on the application permission they have, you need to correct the application preference record.. By default it has "Yes" for all the application under Overview

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread vaibhav wadekar
conquery.jar ITSMCommonUtils.jar These are multi-threaded versions of the existing jar files so these need to replace the existing ones located in the "pluginsvr\qry" directory (i.e. C:\Program Files\BMC Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr\qry. You can test by extracting patch 04 installer and put this

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, This is the actual query that hoses our production system. T2068 = Help Desk form SELECT * FROM ( SELECT T2068.C1, C100161, C10, C303497300, C100164, C7, C100218, C105261, C100217, C103009, C100018, C100019, C100150, C179, C100422, C10

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread ravi rai
Kathy,Check with BMC Support. we faced this in 7604 SP2 and there was issue with Overview console.Overview console was single threaded. They provided a Jar file fix for the same Ravi Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:52:12 -0800 From: remedyr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Critical: Server Hung To: arsli

Re: Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread Rick Cook
Kathy, how many rows are in the table referenced by the console? I've seen this happen in some versions where the form doesn't get cleared, and the SQL queries bog the system down. Rick On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Kathy Morris wrote: > ** > > Hi, > > ** ** > > AR System 7.6.03 >

Critical: Server Hung

2013-02-04 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, AR System 7.6.03 ITSM 7.6.04 SP1. The incident management console hangs and hoses the system when users access the Incident Management Overview console. My understanding is that thru a row-level access query, users see the incidents for the group they are member of. If users are a

Re: Enhancement-Rant: BMC - hot fixings for my application environment

2013-02-04 Thread Jason Miller
We gave up maintaining our ENV details on the support site. Too much effort for no return. Jason On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, patrick zandi wrote: > ** I know we do this almost every year and still appears no one is > listening, however I am still hopeful one day that this little rant wil

OT: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04 (RE ADDM)

2013-02-04 Thread Jason Miller
Regarding "That's NOT happening in our environment." We have had the same trouble with ADDM. BMC's ideal design is to have virtual disks for ADDMhowever a 300gb VM disk is not welcome in our environment so we use NFS. In 9.0 an disk management UI was introduced and remove the need for a manual c

FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread John Baker
William I note MT8.0 contains Lucene version 2.9.2. As far as I can tell, this is at least two major releases behind the current release. Version 2.6.2 was released in February 2010 and has been superseded by two minor releases. Perhaps you should download 2.9.4 from an ftp site, or even try

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread laurent matheo
** Yep, and I have quite some troubles to make it work / install it properly (BMC Chat 8), hence the query to the experts there ;)On 04 Feb, 2013,at 08:34 PM, Jamie wrote:BMC aquired my-service late last year and are re-marketing it as their chat solution with the help desk, which is different tha

Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread laurent matheo
** Hi,We also had some problems with FTS on 7.6.04 sp2 and on Windows environment.At a time, search wasn't working anymore (for example in MFS) and you had a plugin error (can't remember the arerror).I left the project before BMC support found a solution but I gave the admins a script that killed t

FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread John Baker
William The FTS engine is Lucense, an open source project, from what I recall. Sticking "lucene san storage" into Google reveals a set of results that suggest is should be fine, and if I recall, Lucene uses file based locking (correct me if I'm wrong) and hence it shouldn't care about the und

Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Ellis
We implemented the attached recommendations from BMC for FTS in our Linux Server Group. Could barely get FTS to last more than a couple of weeks and now since implementing the recommendations it's been stable for 2 months. Simon From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:ars

Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread Rick Cook
We have used FTS on virtual AR 7.5 servers before without an issue. You are using a hard server for your DB, aren't you? Because that's a known issue for things apart from FTS. Rick On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, William Rentfrow < wrentf...@stratacominc.com> wrote: > ** > > I've spent a LO

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread Jamie
BMC aquired my-service late last year and are re-marketing it as their chat solution with the help desk, which is different than the AR chat in 8.0 I believe. You can go to http://www.my-eservice.com/ to learn more about the eservice product. ___

FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread William Rentfrow
I've spent a LOT of time on this with BMC support and I wanted to know if anyone else had similar problems and how they fixed it. Essentially we can not get FTS to remain stable. It will always eventually crash and need to be restarted, which essentially means restarting ARS since its' a plugi

Re: Enhancement-Rant: BMC - hot fixings for my application environment

2013-02-04 Thread patrick zandi
Hey at least I have a "chat client" so I should not complain...8-) Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, patrick zandi wrote: > I know we do this almost every year and still appears no one is listening, > however I am still hopeful one day that this little rant will be > instituted. > > PROBLEM:

Enhancement-Rant: BMC - hot fixings for my application environment

2013-02-04 Thread patrick zandi
I know we do this almost every year and still appears no one is listening, however I am still hopeful one day that this little rant will be instituted. PROBLEM: BMC has all our configurations and possible Permutations of our ENV if they want -- see support > Environments https://support.bmc.com/ar

Re: Slow system restart/arsystem errors after restarting the mid-tiers on 7.6.4

2013-02-04 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Howard, What level of review have you done of your tomcat settings? Places/things to check: - server.xml - tomcat6w.exe - config.properties Also, are you pre-loading cache? if so, are your .xml files all the same? (across Dev/UAT/Prod). These are all little things that can have a big impac

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
My understanding is that the chat built into 8.0 is only for support agents to communicate amongst each other and that it is not end-user/customer facing at all. I'm sure there are 3rd party chat packages out there for that purpose already but I don't think that BMC has implemented that functionali

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
To play BMC's advocate, I recall hearing that either this or a future version will use an open chat protocol, so you can integrate it with tools like Microsoft Lync. Also, based on the demo I saw it seems like the chat isn't directly tied to a specific person in this case, but rather it's more

Re: Slow system restart/arsystem errors after restarting the mid-tiers on 7.6.4

2013-02-04 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Did you run the log through ar log analyzer? Were you able to come to any conclusions, or did you just provide the file to BMC? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Howard Richter Sent: Friday, February 01, 201

Re: ***********Webservices and the IncidentInterface Create form*************

2013-02-04 Thread patchsk
I see the following options if you want to avoid creating new fields depending on how you need to use this guid data. 1. Store it in Vendor Tkt Number field. Just create a new vendor name with the external system name and use these fields. or 2. Store it as workinfo entry. or 3. Store as a relati

Re: BMC Chat 8.0.00 experience?

2013-02-04 Thread Patrick Zandi
I see what you mean John. I keep wondering if they just used the monies that they spent on some new gimmick on the product itself how much better it would be and what kind of quality we would have as well. But I know they won't hear until someone at the top stops the flat spin. Sent from my iPh

***********Webservices and the IncidentInterface Create form*************

2013-02-04 Thread Enslin Van Blerk - MWEB
Hi Remedy 7.6 I use the Incident Interface Create Webservice to create an Incident in the HelpDesk form. The external system (not a Vendor but Internal System) push a GUID through to REMEDY and I would like to know the following: Can I use one of the existing fields to map the GUID to REMEDY?