Re: Measurements

2013-09-06 Thread Kunal Sonawala
@Joe, Please find answers to your queries in black: Is your solution good for NON-ITSM - home grown type of Remedy applications, that are web driven (Mid-Tier).. - Yes, Vyom Performance TestEdge support NON-ITSM (home grown / customized) type of Remedy applications that are web

Incident Management Console showing wrong incidents

2013-09-06 Thread Thomas
Hi List, our Incident console in ITSM 7.6.03 seems to show the wrong incidents. It also contains incidents that were previously assigned to the group of the user and then routed to another. This is only happening in Incident Management Console, but not in Overview Console. Has anyone of you

Removing links in Email notifications?

2013-09-06 Thread Thomas
Listers, I want to remove the links at top of the Customer Receipt Information and Customer Resolution notification mails from our ITSM 7.6.03, but those links are not shown in the respective template. Is there a chance we can only remove this from the two notifications towards customer, and

Re: Measurements

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Thanks for your response. I got your invite on LinkedIn - lets chat there. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kunal Sonawala Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 2:54 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Measurements

Re: Removing links in Email notifications?

2013-09-06 Thread Rem_Developer
You can modify the filters which sends these notification and uncheck the url option. From: Anders, Thomas (ext)-2 [via ARS (Action Request System)] [mailto:ml-node+s1093659n7591507...@n2.nabble.com] Sent: 06 September 2013 14:03 To: Dhananjay Deshpande Subject: Removing links in Email

ADM: Timing test, please ignore

2013-09-06 Thread Daniel
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ADM: timing test two, lets see if it is down from 22 hours

2013-09-06 Thread Daniel
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BMC Official License Management.

2013-09-06 Thread team.rem...@libero.it
Hi folks, i'd need of an official document by BMC that describe the licence management type of Remedy. in particulary BMC:Incident Mgmt User Floating. i.e. Bmc Remedy 7.1 1. when a user do login,the system checks the availability of license (checks Write Pool) if a license is available this

Re: Incident Management Console showing wrong incidents

2013-09-06 Thread Das, Anusha (non-US)
You might want to check if the Incident ownership is still with the original group (this can be found in the date/system tab). Incident Console display tickets owned by a support group too. Anusha Das NRC-ITISS Remedy Developer ITIL V3 Foundations Dell | Services, Federal Government Office + 1

Estimate Licenses needed - fixed/floating etc

2013-09-06 Thread Atul Vohra
Hi all, I have seen this doc earlier (white paper for older version) but can not seem to find it now. Any help would be appreciated Need to estimate (for a new project) how many licenses to get (read and fixed) � Thanks Atul

Re: Categorizations

2013-09-06 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, How do I change the CTIs that came from ADDM thru normalization? We configured the product catalog with Normalization type = CTI. To configure the product catalog, we are only allowed 1 unique value. ADDM provides 2 different values. For example ADDM send the CMDB both:

Re: Categorizations

2013-09-06 Thread Roger Justice
You need to open an issue with ADDM support this appears to be a bug since the CTI is hard coded. -Original Message- From: Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Sep 6, 2013 10:28 am Subject: Re: Categorizations ** Hi, How do I change the

Re: Categorizations

2013-09-06 Thread Kathy Morris
We did and BMC told us to use TPL. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:43 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Categorizations ** You need to open an issue with ADDM support

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good point. I had a different idea of redirecting the user to another URL altogether but thought to myself, That's not appropriate for work so I changed it before I sent the email. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
I’m leaning towards Engineer 1 and 2 being the same person :-).. On a more serious note, why isn’t there ever a recommendation by BMC Software on what Group ID’s would be an ideal User Range.. Off late I have resorted to a fairly large number starting at 5 and above for custom

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
That is an interesting requirement. I can see where this would be desirable though. I have just started to work with MyIT but so far I haven't seen any way to do this without adding workflow in Remedy since MyIT uses the User record for authentication. If there isn't a way you might want to put

Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Aditya Sharma
Hi Listers, I have a requirement to prevent a particular user to be able login through mid tier but same user should be able to login to client tools. Has anyone implemented such requirement? What can be the best way to achieve this? Specifically looking for a non-workflow mechanism.

Re: Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Sanford, Claire
Chop off his fingers? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 3:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login Oh ya that would work too.. I

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
That would also break the MyIT Universal Client if they are supposed to be using it from their desktop (assuming Chrome is their browser). Also I can see that one going through CAB to get approval to push that down to x thousands of machines based on username. And then they just use their

Re: Incident Management Console showing wrong incidents

2013-09-06 Thread Tomasiewicz, Mike (Information Technology)
We created an application assignment rule for Incident Owner which defaults all tickets to our Service Desk. This prevents those tickets from displaying in the originators queue after they have been transferred. It also provides our service desk with access and views to all of the incidents.

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Randeep Atwal
** You could use Disable-Client-Operation: 9 in ar.conf You can specify times and an exclusion group of users it should not apply to.Not code, configuration...Look in

Re: Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Oh ya that would work too.. I was thinking of slightly violent alternatvies :) Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:04 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Longwing, Lj
I believe the limit is based on hardware capacity On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Pruitt, Christopher (Bank of America Account) christopher.pru...@hp.com wrote: ** I have a question regarding this topic. Is there a limit on the number of Escalation Pools you can have on a server? We

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Yeah what happened to peace, love, and happiness Joe? Now it's punch, kick, and choke Joe. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: ** Wow Joe, wow 8-)I wonder if there is some radiation coming off the Aurora and soaking into your brain...

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
True.. java scripts written on the login page are subject to break when you update a patch unless you manually fix the page again. Workflow approach will not have that limitation.. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of

OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Na.. those were beautiful! I wish I get to see them at least once again before I don't have to travel to Alaska no more.. My next trip is scheduled to be my last.. I like the DNS spoofing idea from Tauf - only that these days most IT employees are smart enough to realize what's happening, and

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
Wow Joe, wow 8-)I wonder if there is some radiation coming off the Aurora and soaking into your brain... On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: PERFORM-APPLICATION-LOGOUT from the home page or any other page that the user might have access too if the

Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Hmm non workflow. Uninstall IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera etc. That'll do it! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 3:59 PM, SUBSCRIBE arslist Aditya Sharma heloits...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Listers, I have a requirement to prevent a particular user to be able login through mid tier but same user

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Thad Esser
My first thought was the same as Fred's - do you have enough queues defined, so I can't offer much more in that regard. However, you mention that you are restarting the server to clear up the dead thread. Back in the 6.3 days, there was a version (patch 21 I think), where you could end up with

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Pruitt, Christopher (Bank of America Account)
I have a question regarding this topic. Is there a limit on the number of Escalation Pools you can have on a server? We currently run with 4 but I was wondering if we can increase that to a number higher than that and if so what it the maximum number allowed? Christopher Pruitt Business

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Yup that should work too.. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Cecil, Ken Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:20 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Prevent MT Login My suggestion was neither. Use

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
So I started to wonder why 536870912 at the beginning. Seems a bit of on odd first ID number. I wonder if it was because that is 512 megabits? Because it is 64 megabytes? There must be some kind of meaning. Engineer 1: Hey, we need a really large number for the first field ID in the customer

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I may be really old school here but ... Why not update the ones with no pool to be in the 1st pool (unless there is a reason you want them to access any pool) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday,

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I could see this being useful for automation as well. For example, you create an account to integrate with a monitoring tool that uses the Remedy API to create Incidents, but you don't want the owner of that account to log in and manually use Remedy with that account. If you wanted to do a

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
First of all why is your Demo user not password protected? That's a bad bad thing.. No other user on your system except your admins should have admin access rights. Configure your system that no guest users are allowed to login - simple check box on the server information page.. Plus you can

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread laurent matheo
** Yep, and the other problem with _javascript_ on login.jsp is that if he knows the "login trick" giving credentials in the url the "sorry pal I got you" trap in login.jsp wouldn't work.In this case you could alter the LoginServlet instead I guess, though that would mean quite some work...Another

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
PERFORM-APPLICATION-LOGOUT from the home page or any other page that the user might have access too if the $CLIEMT-TYPE$ = 9.. Why would you have such a requirement though when the future versions does not support access through the native User client? This is a workflow mechanism - it will be

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
It would Ken. It's up to the poster. I would think writing workflow is easier then getting JavaScript in so who knows. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Cecil, Ken kce...@hubbell.com wrote: ** My suggestion was neither. *Use javascript to catch the user id in the submit of the

OT - Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Sanford, Claire
This thread had me laughing like crazy and I needed it! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 3:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Prevent MT Login ** Yeah what happened to peace,

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
LOL! So we'll touch all the desktops? I though we left that behind with WUT? On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** I'm trying to work with the whole No Workflow thing! C'mon! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Jason Miller

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
That's a pretty sleek solution.. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Randeep Atwal Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:24 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Prevent MT Login You could use

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Jonathan Young
30 escalation pools sounds high! Do you have many escalations in each of those pools? From: Campbell, Paul (Paul) Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 6:53 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How many escalation pools do you have...? ** We are

Re: Email Template variable replacement not working on a notify action

2013-09-06 Thread Thad Esser
A couple of easy things to check: 1. The email engine takes 30 minutes (by default) to re-read a template. Either wait, or restart the email engine to make sure it's actually seeing your template changes. 2. Do the fields have public permissions? If the recipient doesn't have permissions to

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
I have 4 Escalation threads for ITSM 7.6.4 SP 4 we had some notifications that could hang for 20 mins in the evenings and would cause some headaches for our Help Desk since they were high priority tickets. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
I agree it it is either workflow or a BMC provided option baked into the product. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: ** Na.. those were beautiful! I wish I get to see them at least once again before I don’t have to travel to Alaska no more.. My next trip is

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
I think you need to sit with your security people and lay out all of these concerns to see what you can come up with. A lot of what you are saying looks like its a process issue. For the example you just gave, you should either be disabling the generic admin Accts like Demo or change your process

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Tales Parreiras da Silva
Each thread consumes an amount of memory and demands an amount of 'computacional power' to exist and the workflow that will run on this thread will consume another amoutn of memory and power too. In most cases, each thread represents one database connection so your database server needs to be

Re: Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Cecil, Ken
Use javascript to catch the user id in the submit of the midtier login.jsp page and redirect that user to an error page. Ken. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Friday, September 06,

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Aditya Sharma
Client tool I do not only refer to User Tool.. It can be dev studio, spoon client, import tool etc.. this solution if possible through a non-workflow mechanism can help in preventing unnecessary login through generic accounts over web URL which is available over internet.. Client tools access

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Pruitt, Christopher (Bank of America Account)
WOW nice to know. We have a very powerful production server and now we increase our Escalation threads. Not sure why I thought it was restricted to just 4 but 30 now that is impressive. Thanks for everyone's replies, It has really opened my eyes as to what I can do with Escalations and the

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread Norbert Bolmer
2^29 = 536870912 Am 06.09.2013 um 19:04 schrieb Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com: ** So I started to wonder why 536870912 at the beginning. Seems a bit of on odd first ID number. I wonder if it was because that is 512 megabits? Because it is 64 megabytes? There must be some kind of

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
We will have time for all of that at the RUG :-) I still like the beat the user idea! I could put my fish bonker up for sale! Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread John J Reiser
Might be showing my (Remedy) age hear but why 536870913 instead of 536870912. (before VUIs) That number will forever be burned into my brain as the first user defined field. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-06 Thread Campbell, Paul (Paul)
We are currently running 30 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 1:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How many escalation pools do you have...? ** I believe the limit is based on

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread Longwing, Lj
I would hafta say that because that the 'current' first field ID :) On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM, John J Reiser john.j.rei...@lmco.comwrote: Might be showing my (Remedy) age hear but why 536870913 instead of 536870912. (before VUIs) That number will forever be burned into my brain as the

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Cecil, Ken
My suggestion was neither. Use javascript to catch the user id in the submit of the midtier login.jsp page and redirect that user to an error page. Ken. Would it not work? Ken. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller

Re: BMC Official License Management.

2013-09-06 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The write-token is not reserved for the user at login. It is reserved as soon as the user access any form tagged by BMC to belong to BMC:Incident Mgmt. If the user is directed directly to the Overview Console, the effect for all practical purposes would be what you describe - it is reserved

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Seriously though, assuming the user is using a Widows OS, you can edit the HOST file and put a bogus IP address in for the web server DNS name. Make sure they either: 1: Don't see you doing it or 2: Don't have permissions to change it back. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 3:59 PM,

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Aditya Sharma
That is just an example.. Yes everything is password protected always. If I had an admin guy who knows one of the generic admin account present on the system and guy is now not part of organization, but he still can access the company URL through internet.. as the generic account may be used

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Prevent guest logins.. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE arslist Aditya Sharma Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:30 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Prevent MT Login Client tool I do

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread John J Reiser
damn *here* ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Joe D'Souza
Perform-action-exit-app is the better to use than just calling the logout page using the open url page.. I'm not sure it will actually do a logout by opening the logout page that way.. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Ha! Remedy Developer T-Shirts

2013-09-06 Thread Mueller, Doug
Or maybe, it was just one poor sole who thought that the field ID being 32 bits gives a maxint of about 2 billion so why not give Remedy about ¼ of that space and customers ¾ and then to say that OK, a way to do that is 2^29 since 2^31 is the total, that is about ¼ so let's go with that

Re: Friday Humor: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
Alright, it looks like we are all ready for some free WWRUG13 drinks. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: Chop off his fingers? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
I'm trying to work with the whole No Workflow thing! C'mon! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: ** That would also break the MyIT Universal Client if they are supposed to be using it from their desktop (assuming Chrome is their browser).

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
This is very true. We have a few integration service account where the those accounts should never login to any clients except web services. It would be nice to have a way of listing allowed client-types in the User record and having AR System enforce it natively. I haven't looked yet, does

Re: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Jason Miller
In a very security conscious environment the username of default admin account are usually changed and/or the account is disabled. In the Windows world I have heard of organizations renaming the 'Administrator' account so that is one less bit of info everybody knows about their environment. It