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2013-05-08 Thread Jason Miller
Hi all, I thought I would share the link to this discussion here. Over the years many of us have aired our Support rants on the list; sometimes about the the specific question being asked. Login and leave your comments regarding the topic since you have Support's virtual ear. (not quite a) Poll

AD: Data Import Suggestions

2013-05-08 Thread Ben Chernys
Meta-Update offers the speed and flexibility of API - without the programming or API skills required AND with lots of features for data transformations etc. It is designed for Remedy developers and administrators using a language they already know: Queries and assignments. With Meta-Update yo

Re: Modifying Incident

2013-05-08 Thread Joel Sender
Or, Open the form in DevStudio and enable Menu options: Mod All is probably unchecked. Joel Joel Senderjdsen...@earthlink.net310.829.5552 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of rahul bose Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:54 PM

Re: Error encountered while executing a Web Service : Did not understand "MustUnderstand" header(s): (ARERR 9130)

2013-05-08 Thread Abhijit Hendre
This is because usage of apache axis 1.0 since remedy 7.6. 03 onwards... Apache axis now sets Mustunderstand parameter to 1... Earlier it used to set to 0. However, remedy has not adopted these changes yet in the code. On May 9, 2013 4:18 AM, "Robert Heverley" wrote: > ** > Hello All, > > We hav

Re: Modifying Incident

2013-05-08 Thread rahul bose
If the modify All option is greyed out, it has to be a permission issue. Check if you can add Incident Master permission to your profile and then try to use this function. Regards, Rahul On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Govind M wrote: > ** > > Pavan, > > ** ** > > You can relate a pending

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread William Rentfrow
Some guy wrote the DIY version a long time ago as well... http://williamrentfrow.com/automating-service-bmc-remedy-email-engine-part-1/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carl Wilson Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:02 PM To: arslist@ARS

Error encountered while executing a Web Service : Did not understand "MustUnderstand" header(s): (ARERR 9130)

2013-05-08 Thread Robert Heverley
Hello All, We have a web service that was created in ARS 6.3 and we are attempting to consume the web service with a filter developed in 7.6. Has anyone encountered the error listed above while using 7.6?? We are not patch.. 7.6.04 Build 002 201101141059 Thank you.. Robert

Re: Data Import Suggestions

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
Agreed, but not everyone has an understanding of how to utilize an API level interface. For those, the Remedy Data Import Tool suffices. Jim Coryat x34655 From: Alan Truelove [mailto:truelove.a...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Data Import Suggestions ** Use Re

Re: Remedy Integration with SCOM

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
The first thing to consider is if your Remedy CMDB is being populated from a discovery source? What you have to know is if the Remedy CMDB is already populated with the detail data that you need for your incidents. Best practice would be to have your CMDB updated with current information, what

Re: Error Message in Web

2013-05-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Not off hand but it sounds like you are using a field to hold some criteria (like opening a form or report using EXTERNAL) and the data in the field is missing a parenthesis If you turn on logging in the User Preferences form (then Log out and back in) you can get a popup web browser form showi

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, I offer this as a pre-made integration if you do not want to code this yourself available here: http://www.missingpiecessoftware.com/products/ar-email-to-itsm-integration There is a fully working evaluation available that you can trial here: http://www.missingpiecessoftware.com/dow

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
The web service call is still in-process (The filter waits for the web service call to finish) The Perl script was the only way I could figure to make it Out of Process without using the Escalator. If you didn't like Perl you could probably script it for a server side Macro or RIK Fred ---

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Just thinking outside the box here, but if you wanted to keep it all in ARS, I wonder if there is a way to leverage web services to do this instead of the Perl script. I haven't tried it, but I imagine you could set up a web service on your staging Form, which is called by a Filter on AR System

Re: Remedy Integration with SCOM

2013-05-08 Thread vivek garg
Hi Jim, Thanks for the solution. However, Please help me understand more on this "Use data from SCCM to feed your CMDB (basically your discovery source) using AIE or AI. This will ensure you have the data in your CMDB." I know that remedy CMDB is very huge database and I am totally new to SCCM.

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Instead of the escalation method I use a custom perl script that does nothing but change the status on a form. I call it as a RunProcess action in a filter on submit of a record in the staging form when the Status = New. This allows me to run workflow "Out of Process" and not tie up an escalati

Re: Data Import Suggestions

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Truelove
Use  Remedy Java API -- I have done this precise task (Inputting large  batch CI -- Access db, EXCEL, csv files, etc etc into Asset forms) several times over the past few years, it is much faster and less troublesome than the standard Remedy tool(s). 571 242 0153.  Best wishes. _

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread pritch
I also use the escalation method. I have a filter that identifies that the email should be processed and simply pushes the incoming email to a staging form with a status of 'New'. From there I have an escalation that runs every 2 minutes which simply moves the status of anything 'New' to 'Proc

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Ray Palla
Mark; You can also run a filter on Submit/Merge from the AR System Email Messages form. The filter can be qualified on the 'From' or 'Subject' or others. This filter does a push to the staging form. Quick and simple. Another action in the filter could set the 'Status' or delete the original

Re: [URGENT]Use Alter Table Alter Column on Remedy ARS

2013-05-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
But what SQL Error are you receiving in the Admin tool? I have had in the past, errors from the Admin tool about Views not being created, and those will not affect ARS (as the DB Views are not used by ARS). Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Tanner, Doug
Excellent indeed, we process our email for the set of intermediate tables every 2-3 minutes via escalations. We are reading 67 different mailboxes and creating or updating records in a Dozen different Remedy Applications. In addition we have supporting forms that hold the "Rules/Variables" on ho

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You bring up an excellent point about not using Filters on AR System Email Messages. The escalation is exactly what I've done to get around those issues, because if the filters don't work, you don't even have a record in the AR System Email Messages form to verify that it came in at all. In my

AD: Data Import Suggestions

2013-05-08 Thread Ben Chernys
Meta-Update is the easiest way. You can create as many records as you like from the import (associations, relationships, etc). You can validate the data and reject records that you don't like - automatically creating a copy of the file with only those rejected records in it. All with no Remed

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Tanner, Doug
In 7.6.4 the email engine will go ahead and create the "problem" emails in AR System Email Error Messages (which is a copy of AR System Email Messages) Kind of sweet. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Jason Miller
Great point! We have seen this with incoming emails as well as web services. It is much easier to troubleshoot when you at least have the record in the system vs. being completely rejected by the system. Jason On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, William Rentfrow wrote: > ** > > Another thing to

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread William Rentfrow
Another thing to note with this - You might not want very much workflow to fire on the initial action that brings the email in. If there is an error in the submit process the entire thing will roll back and it's harder to troubleshoot. When I've set this up in the past I actually push the emai

Re: [URGENT]Use Alter Table Alter Column on Remedy ARS

2013-05-08 Thread Hugo Ruesga
Thanks for your replies. Fred; I'm aware that SQL is not case sensitive, however it must have something to do, since if I attempt to modify any existing field on the forms labeled as t instead of T, I received the SQL error. I turned on the SQL log, but couldn't find any specific message that co

Re: How to create multiple incident by creating only one incident?

2013-05-08 Thread Adams, Peter
Can you explain more about the situation and what problem you are trying to solve with this capability? Do you want to manually create copies or automatically? I can see multiple other options (ITSM Process Designer, SRM) to do this, but to give any recommendation you'd need to describe why y

Data Import Suggestions

2013-05-08 Thread Abdullah Baytops
I wanted to know what suggestions anyone would have on the easiest way to import information into the (Asset Module ) specifically the AST: Equipment form of ITSM 7.6.04? V/R Abdul Baytops CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which

Re: [URGENT]Use Alter Table Alter Column on Remedy ARS

2013-05-08 Thread Murnane, Phil
Hugo: I'm working from memory on this solution, so I'd recommend allowing a few hours for other listers to comment on it -- just in case I'm forgetting something. I'd also recommend opening a support incident with BMC to verify the procedure before performing it. If you have a development ARS

Re: Remedy Integration with SCOM

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
SCOM does have a list of the hosts that it is monitoring. When you install the SCOM agent, it does a register with the server. SCOM does not contain all information, it just holds what it needs to do the alerting and monitoring. Fortunately, SCCM does contain that information. :) Using the

Printer Issue.

2013-05-08 Thread Suresh Loganathan
Hi Guys, I am having an issue, when i am clicking the "Print" Option into "Overview Console" link. It showing the following error. Can any one help to resolve this issue. "Error during processing: ARERR[9260] Report location is missing from report settings configuration page. Please see your adm

Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?

2013-05-08 Thread Jesse
Depends on your definition of "successful" Bain makes money for stock holders ... yes successful company??? well ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You have to do a lookup on the AR System Email Association form, identify the email based on the Source ID2 field being equal to Unique Identifier field on AR System Email Messages. Based on that, you can obtain the Destination ID of the attachment, then in another piece of workflow go to AR Sy

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread pritch
There's an email attachment form - you can have an attachment field on the staging form and do a set fields when you submit the staging form; you'll need the email ID... OR ... pass the email ID to the work info and do the set field right there. That will avoid the redundancy (at least one) of

Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All, I have a requirement to give users the ability to send an email to ARS and create a Work Info Note in the Incident or Change. When the email is received in the AR System Email Messages form, based on the subject line, the email is pushed to a staging form. On the staging form I do some

Re: How to create multiple incident by creating only one incident?

2013-05-08 Thread Govind M
You have not mentioned in which version you are trying this. In 7.1, you can use the menu item called "Copy to new" available under edit menu. It will copy all the details of the previously created incident and save it. But, this is a manual work. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARS

Re: [URGENT]Use Alter Table Alter Column on Remedy ARS

2013-05-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
You should never modify the tables directly. What error are you receiving? (and if you turn on SQL Logs on the server you will see the actual SQL that is being executed) As for the t vs T ... SQL Server is not case sensitive so that should not matter. Fred -Original Message- From: A

Re: How to create multiple incident by creating only one incident?

2013-05-08 Thread Brittain, Mark
Depending on what it is you want to accomplish you might want to consider either tasks or work orders. I would think having workflow create an Incident when you create an Incident might be difficult to control and result in an endless number of Incidents. Mark From: Action Request System discu

Email was Hacked - Eposta'm Hacklendi

2013-05-08 Thread Betül Kaan
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Re: Oracle-Two-Task in Oracle LoadBalanced Oracle DB

2013-05-08 Thread kanhu mohapatra
Hello Sonia, you should try add the following information for both server (ITSM764_125, ITSM764_126) in the transname.ora file ITSM764_125 = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = ARS7604)(PORT = 1521)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ITSM764_125)

Re: Oracle-Two-Task in Oracle LoadBalanced Oracle DB

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Zandi
You should be using the VIP address / racscan address as well, you don't normally just use any address so check with you oracle Dba/ network pugs a d make sure Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2013, at 3:20, Mayuresh Wagh wrote: > ** > Hi Sonia, > > How to do you connect to see both the DB in

Re: Oracle-Two-Task in Oracle LoadBalanced Oracle DB

2013-05-08 Thread Mayuresh Wagh
Hi Sonia, How to do you connect to see both the DB instances? As far as connection is concerned from the AR Side, AR will connect to single instance only. However since this is load balanced if that particular instance is down, then AR will retry the connection & connects to the other instance. Th