Re: How to monitor the health of the arserver?

2013-05-15 Thread RĂ¼diger Tams
** Hi, maybe it us useful in some way: BMC has an unsupported tool called "BMC Remedy Health Advisor"https://communities.bmc.com/message/257971#257971 But "BMC Support will not accept issues regarding this utility." :-/ Regards RĂ¼diger Tams NTT DATA Germany Von: Joe D'Souza

Re: **Remedy Developer/Admin in Sunny South Florida!**

2013-05-15 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Hi Lindsey, I am having experience in BMC Remedy, CMDB and ITSM, Custom Remedy etc. I am from India. Earlier I have worked for many other countries like Sweden, Indonesia as a Remedy Developer/Consultant. Currently I am working for one of the Telecom Remedy Project in Doha (Qatar). Can I apply

ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread patrick zandi
Was wondering if anyone has made a server group of 2 servers same OS, and Architecture and 1 different. Possible impacts / problems, or is it in the docs not to do. which I did not notice. Scenario: 2 linux ARS servers in a group, add 1 windows ARS server and add to group. The windows server

Re: Help Needed

2013-05-15 Thread Longwing, Lj
Wellthe big question that you must ask then is 'did you store the previous assignees anywhere'? On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Shivanand Jeerigiwad shivu5sh...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi Joe, Thanks for the support. The requirement is basically as below, 1) That these tickets were

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread Longwing, Lj
Patrick, I have never heard of a requirement that all nodes of a server group must be on the same architecture. Due to the fact that the server group is just signaling communication between the servers, I don't see it as a problem. The only time you would come against issues would be if your DB

Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
I'm seeing something odd with Developer Studio. Not sure it's me or something with Dev Studio. Using 8.1 Dev Studio against a 7.6.04 server (Windows app server running on Oracle). We have a form that has two Attachment Pool fields on the form. I'm attempting to move the fields to a Tab on

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread patrick zandi
sounds good.. just asking.. for thoughts.. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Longwing, Lj llongw...@usgs.gov wrote: ** Patrick, I have never heard of a requirement that all nodes of a server group must be on the same architecture. Due to the fact that the server group is just signaling

Remedy Alert List Delete admin permission only issue

2013-05-15 Thread Dee
Good Morning List, We are still on Remedy alert and ARS 7.5 Patch 4 with oracle 11g and unix 6.1.7. Mt same version. On the Alert List form, the table view I have enabled the delete button, having the all permissions. However, non-admins cannot execute without getting Must have

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi Dave, The general rule has always been to use the same version of the admin/developer tool as the server version. So there might be something with the 8.1 developer that is not compatible. Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of

Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Dear List, I have installed Midtier and ARS in single box and remedy web page correctly functioning in Intranet network having firewall. Will it work over the Internet outside the Intranet if firewall setting we remove? Or any thoughts? Do we have any other settings related to firewall from the

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Jason Miller
You only need to open the port for the web server to the World (usually 80 or 8080 or 8443 or 443). I strongly recommend using SSL encryption if you are not already (I recommend it for internal only access as well). Jason On May 15, 2013 7:43 AM, Sandeep Pandey sandeep.rem...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Mark, If someone could verify it's a version issue or if it's an issue that also exists with 7.6.04 that would be great. We went through several discussions with Jason Miller before we upgraded. He was assured by Dev Studio developers that using a newer version is backward compatible. We

Re: Remedy Alert List Delete admin permission only issue

2013-05-15 Thread Downing, Ryan
Hi Dee, Try creating your own Delete button. Create an Active Link that fires on the button to perform a Run Process @@:Application-Delete-Entry $SCHEMA$ Request ID (where Request ID = column with Request ID) Hope this helps. Ryan. -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Thanks Jason. I have opened port already 8080. Do we mention ssl encryption during installation or we can do later after doing configuration setting change in midtier? How to check? Is that https rather than http? Sandeep Pandey Remedy Developer On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Jason Miller

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Longwing, Lj
David, I can confirm on an 8.1 Server/Dev Studio, that I do not have the ability to move an attachment field or pool into a panel, as you stated, the option seems to be missing. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Shellman, David dave.shell...@te.comwrote: ** Mark, ** ** If someone

Re: Remedy Alert List Delete admin permission only issue

2013-05-15 Thread D Dussie
Thank you ryan, Sorry should have mentioned, I have that already and works great. Trying to figure out why the non-admin on this form cannot execute the table view delete. I will revise our current delete with your suggestions.

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
LJ, Thanks for the confirmation. I just played around a little bit and what I found is equally odd. Base Mode If I create an Attachment field off a Panel field, I cannot drag the Attachment field to the Panel field. However if I create the Attachment field on a Panel field, I can drag it

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Julie Sellers
** Dave,When you export a form it creates two items for import, the base form and the overlay (indicated by the form name with a '.o' extension).Could you not export the data, export the form, and then only import the base form (basically deleting the overlay)?Just a thought...From:

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Tried that. You get a message that the form types do not match. Dave On May 15, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Julie Sellers julsell...@yahoo.commailto:julsell...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Dave, When you export a form it creates two items for import, the base form and the overlay (indicated by the form name

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Jason Miller
It is not part of the Mid Tier installer. The configuration of Tomcat via the installer is minimal. You will need to configure Tomcat SSL after the Mid Tier installer. BMC ships Tomcat as a convenience for getting Mid Tier up and running quickly but is not a BMC product. Personally I always

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Dale Jones
David, Did you create an overlay for view, each Attachment field , Attachment Pool, the destination Page and Tab? May want to try in Base Mode. May want to try in a Dev Studio version with the same version as Server. (Rule of thumb is newer versions of Dev Studio will try to introduce

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Dale, Doing our best to get away from Overlays. In fact when a form is converted to Custom you can't create an Overlay. Yes, we understand the rule of thumb. As in the past using a newer version of admin tool is not something we do without serious consideration. Dave From: Action Request

Re: Help Needed

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
That's what I meant to ask too. You may want to also check your data in field 112 (Assignee Group field) which can play an important part on permissions if the problem you are having is permission related. Cheers Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion

Re: **Remedy Developer/Admin in Sunny South Florida!**

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
I wonder if you meant to respond to the list, but if you didn't, your employer might have just got to learn that you are looking for another position :) - which may be ok in some parts of the world, but the Middle East - I'm not so sure. Joe _ From: Action Request System

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Dale, LJ also noted he reproduced the issue with 8.1 Dev Studio against an 8.1 server. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Dale Jones Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:00 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
That is the whole reason for having server ranking operations, that can be disabled on some and enabled on some so each server has specific 'roles' for the lack of a better word. Maybe 'tasks' is a better word. Talking about your specific need - to dedicate one of the two servers for

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
Overlays was one of the first thing I wanted to ask when I read your original email but thought I'd wade through the list in case someone already pointed that out.. You mentioned you want to stay away from overlays. Any specific reasons why? Personally I feel it's a great tool, and not

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Joe, When in Best Practice Mode any form created shows as Custom. There is not an Overlay option. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:56 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Longwing, Lj
Joe, Dave can answer definitively on this, but I got the impression that he is dealing with non OOTB code...which in that case, should be custom, not base with an overlay...but I may be mistaken On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: ** Overlays was one of the

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
The form you are trying to modify is a custom form created from the Best Practice mode? Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Correct this is custom forms and workflow. I understand the functionality of Overlays when using OOTB code and forms. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:08 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Yes. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field ** The form you are trying to modify is a custom form created

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
I must have missed that somewhere that it's a custom form. Even if it is a custom form or object, (non OOTB), but if it was accidentally created from the base mode, it cannot be modified from the Best Practice mode, without creating an overlay. So if you or some other developer did use the

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Joe, Doesn't matter if it's a form that was created in Base Mode and upgraded to Custom or a form created in Best Practice Mode. There is not an option to move an Attachment field to a Tab. I've been creating simple forms in various modes to test various combinations. Dave From: Action

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Joe D'Souza
I thought you might have exhausted all possibilities. This must be some sort of a bug then. I wish I had a 8.x system to try it out on but I do not. Keep us updated on what you find out. What does BMC Support have to say about it? Joe _ From: Action Request System

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
When something doesn't work right on a complicated form I create simple forms so I can take some of the complexity out of the equation. If you're on 7.6.04 (server and dev studio) give it a quick test. That would at least take the question of 8.1 Dev Studio against a 7.6.04 server out of the

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread Terry Bootsma
A couple of suggestions related to your architecture, but not necessarily your question: If you are adding the additional server as part of your server group to handle admin, recon, interfaces, etc. (ie. a lot of heavy liftingi), and if you have a load-balancer in front of these remedy servers,

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
Depending on how the company handles DNS you may need to add an external DNS entry to point to the server or possibly just enable external advertisement of an existing DNS record. Depending on your network architecture you may need to add a NAT and/or PAT translation on the firewall in addition to

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Thanks Rick. Now I understood the networking part involved. I think now I can talk to my network team and get it resolve this after enabling ssl encryption in midtier. Thanks Jason for your input for SSL enabling. -- Sandeep Pandey Remedy Developer On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Rick

Re: Midtier over Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
Setting the ports the midtier communicates over is maintained in the tomcat instance, in the server.xml file. Look inside and find where the port 8080 is configured, there is typically a commented out section where it shows 443 configuration. However you need to create your keystore for your

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Jason Miller
I would like for you to take that out of the equation too :) Have you tried removing the field from the view and adding it back? I am wondering if that will give you the ability to place it elsewhere before saving it in the view. I just thought about it. We have Dev Studio 7.6.04 on the app

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Shellman, David
Great idea. Sigh, the Attachment field just goes back on the form outside of the Tab that I selected. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:20 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread patchsk
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars8000/Server+groups+overview There are two notes saying Servers with in a server group need not have the same OS but workflow commands for invoking programs should be compatible with all OS. That means you need to start writing workflow run if ($OS$ =

POP3 email issue

2013-05-15 Thread Rajesh Nair
Hello List, Seems like we having issue with our incoming email functionality wherein system stop processing the mail coming in, we have to go ahead and restart the emial engine to process the same. During this time we do not see any issue with the emial which are getting relay from the system We

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Jason Miller
Ran some tests... I verified this is an issue with forms created as Custom in Best Practice mode and Dev Studio 8.0 and 8.1. I think it has something to do with not being able to overlay the view of a Custom form. Scenario 1 AR System 7.6.04 SP4 1. Created Regular form in *Base mode with DS

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread Patrick Zandi
Actually this exactly why I asked the question, folks want to use powerscripting and other commands to do work on exchange server farms and othe stuff, so I would need to ensure the commands only run on the windows server and not on Linux Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 17:20,

Re: POP3 email issue

2013-05-15 Thread Marathe, Shivdatta
Hi Rajesh, First thing this exception is seen when two email clients (may be email engine or any other mail clients) are fetching mails from the same mailbox (here also deleting that mail from mailbox.). This happens when email engine is reading a mail from the mailbox and at the same time

Re: [URGENT] - Need to clean up all INC/CR/PBI/SR records and set the counter from xxxxxxx01

2013-05-15 Thread J Lander
What you are asking for is possible but a very large undertaking. It also relies on the person having decent SQL and Remedy ITSM skills. The suggestions from others in this post are worth considering. I have performed the data cleanse a few times in the past and it is not a pretty job. It

Re: Question concerning Attachment Pool field

2013-05-15 Thread Jason Miller
Affirmative. Looks like my advice to use DS 8.1 has steered you wrong. It works as expected with DS 7.6.04 but does not with 8.1. I too get the red X with 8.0/8.1 unless I convert to Base, overlay the form and the view. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Shellman, David