Re: Turn off AREA LDAP Polling?

2016-03-19 Thread Sinclair, Keith
Never mind. I found it. For those of you who are wondering - On the EA tab in the Server Information Configuration form, you'll see a box called "Need To Sync". If this is set to 0, Remedy won't periodically make AD checks. From: Sinclair, Keith Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:58 AM To: arsl

Re: Issue with the Web Services in BMC Remedy 7.6.04

2016-03-19 Thread Julia James
Have you tried looking at the code? I know it's a long shot but we had a web service that timed out. It turned out that there was a character limitation of 240 and the sender had it programmed so the user could only enter 240 to send. They must have been sending an extra character because I c

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Chernys
Hi Doug, Thanks for your response. I am well aware of when the API version changes - I make a single binary in various API releases though I only tend to have customers on a single release of the API - generally the most current. I only recently dropped pre 7 releases from the build. I

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Dave Barber
All 3 servers are running from the same database (ie. same codebase). The two solaris servers are (supposedly) identical hardware and builds (Solaris, Java, etc.). The Red Hat box is totally different in almost every possible way (processors, memory, probably java version). And it is only on one

Re: BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread Jamie
Hello Fred, I was interested in your comment where you said you can launch a chat window with Skype/Lync using SIP://emailaddress. However, when I reached out to my exchange team that supports our Skype/Lync platform, they weren't aware of this capability and aren't sure how it can be done. C

BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread BradRemedy
Hi Has anyone integrated Skype with BMC Remedy at all? We are looking into options in which a chat conversation could be started for a call and the chat log is added as a work info to a ticket when the chat is finished. I am busy investigating options however wanted to know if anyone else has don

Re: ARS custom Java authentication guidance

2016-03-19 Thread laurent matheo
Hi Daniel, The mid-tier part is explained in the doc wiki at this url: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars201401/Integrating+the+mid+tier+into+an+SSO+environment To sum it up, it's kinda like this: -> copy your authenticator jar file (and libs if needed) in "/WEB-INF/lib/" from the mid

Re: User timeout triggers ARERR 9351

2016-03-19 Thread Irving, Isabel (ACCESS LLP)
The users (and developers) don't have any option other than IE - but this is a good idea. I'll see if we can get FF or Chrome for testing. I think one part of the issue is that something is timing the users out before they get to the mid-tier timeout (set at 90 minutes). This means they get

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It would be interesting to know more about what the escalation is actually doing. Number of records, what is the action, etc. I have a handy tool to compare config files that you can download here: https://rrr.se/cgi/tools/main?tool=rrrConfDiff Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Chernys
Well folks, I'm afraid it just got a lot worse!!! 9.1.0 identifies itself as 9.0.0 but has a different set of AR_SERVER_INFO values: >From 9.0.0 #define AR_CURRENT_API_VERSION 21 /* current api version */ #define AR_MAX_SERVER_INFO_USED 426 /* set "highest" server info */

Openfire with ARSystem 9.0

2016-03-19 Thread Jennifer Varkey
Hello Folks, I was wondering if anyone had integrated Openfire 3.8.1 or 4.0.1 with ARS 9.0 (no ITSM). I have been following the documentation https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Installing+and+configuring+the+Openfire+chat+server and https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Config

ARS custom Java authentication guidance

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Wu
We are trying to create our own custom Java authentication provider. I found a Java authenticator sample, but there is no documentation or guideline on where to put those compiled jar files or the properties files. If someone has any documentation on the custom Java, it would be greatly apprecia

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Chernys
Hi Mark, Clearly. (#define is a c statement). The call with value AR_SERVER_INFO_VERSION gives you the server version - at least that value was not renumbered J Meta-Update can connect to multiple servers of different versions using a single version of the API (as it will be one single

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Rod Harris
Hi Dave, >From what you describe it does sound like your escalation is stuck in some kind of infinite loop. You should put filter logging on the server that is hosting your escalation. You may find that your filters being triggered by the escalation are never completing and perhaps timing out prio

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Dave Barber
Thomas, The escalations poll for a value on a form, when found they trigger a series of escalations that scan impacted areas against a change, look up the customers/contacts and builds a list for then generating an email to each individual customer with a list of the impacted areas. As we had 3 s

Re: BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread David Charters
Did you guys cover versions of Lync? There are some bugs depending on the version of Lync you are using. Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6 edge, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: "Grooms, Frederick W" Date: 3/17/2016 12:46 PM (GMT-05:00) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Starting a chat is simple… Skype (was Lync) set itself up for the SIP protocol so all you have to do is to open a browser window to SIP://emailaddress I don’t know about logging the chat session Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf

Enterprise Password Recovery Management

2016-03-19 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All, Has anyone done an integration with LieberSoft's Enterprise Password Recovery Management (EPRM) and ITSM 7.6.04? We're only doing a simple integration where EPRM queries an Incident Number to validate one exists. Set up the ITSM account and from the EPRM Console can authenticate with IT

Re: BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread Jayesh
Hi Brad, If the service desk people are using outlook and skype then once the skype or lync conversation ends,it stores it in conversation history that can be sent to itsm mailbox with whatever rule you have written in RBE:Rule to update the work info. I am not sure if we can write such automa

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Thomas Miskiewicz
Dave, it would be interesting to know what do those escalations do and what happens next. For instance, do they push or set fields? How many records to they hit? (Turn on SQL Log and run that SQL manually to find out.) What type of form Regular or Join do they work on? Which workflow gets t

Re: Turn off AREA LDAP Polling?

2016-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
And if you are looking for the AR.CONF (ar.CFG for Windows) value it is External-Authentication-Sync-Timeout From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sinclair, Keith Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:05 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: R

Re: Turn off AREA LDAP Polling?

2016-03-19 Thread Danny Kellett
I think its AR system Administration Console > General > Server info > EA Tab > Need to Sync. Set this to 0 -- Danny Kellett dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 01:57 PM, Sinclair, Keith wrote: > ** > > If I recall correctly, there is a way to tell Remedy to no

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It seems to me that it would be better to change/patch 9.1 if the problems started there. There is a lot of legacy from all previous versions that it might be harder to fix than just having BMC change their most recent code. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Walters, Mark
Misi, I don't know about the original issue that Ben pointed out - the renumbering of some values. What I tried to say is that the AR_CURRENT_API_VERSION defined in the ar.h tells you the API version that a client built using that set of API files will use - it shouldn't be used to determine t

Having issue while navigating to the Report console for the Knowledge Usage report

2016-03-19 Thread Abhishek Anand
Hi Expert, While navigating in report console to Knowledge -> Open Knowledge -> Article Usagewe are getting below error:- Multiple exceptions occurred. Caused by: ERROR (361): An unqualified search was issued and the server has been configured to disallow unqualified searches. We ar

Re: BMC Remedy Skype Intergration

2016-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Do you have Skype/Lync application? Try opening a browser and put in the URL the SIP:emailaddress (No Slashes, that was a typo in my earlier response) Sip (being a protocol like FTP) have MIME associations for them, so the standard browser will associate the SIP to call the Lync (or Skype)

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread Dave Barber
Hi Rod, Filter logging against the relevant thread just shows processing stopping. No errors, it just hangs. I am considering a change in server configuration - moving the escalations processing from the "user" primary to the integration server. Users (aside from me and the other developers) nev

Re: Hanging escalations?

2016-03-19 Thread remedyboy
Same version of Java ? Just wondering Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Misi Mladoniczky wrote: > > Hi, > > It would be interesting to know more about what the escalation is actually > doing. Number of records, what is the action, etc. > > I have a handy tool to compare con

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The numbering sees very important to me. In 7.6 and 8.0 AR_SERVER_INFO_API_MONITORING_UPDATE_INTERVAL did not exist, but here are the numbers in the other versions. api764sp5/ar.h:#define AR_CURRENT_API_VERSION 18 api800/ar.h: #define AR_CURRENT_API_VERSION 19 api812sp1/ar.h:#define AR_CUR

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Ben Chernys
Hi Misi, Not true re keeping the c API up-to-date. BMC still delivers many binaries with the c API (in both 32 and 64 bits) in the 9.1.0 installation. And the point is beyond BMC anyhow. They publish it and it should work. It should also allow a higher API to communicate with lower servers.

Re: Group IDs --> Group Names

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Fremont
Yeah, That is what I'm looking for , Didn't know there is a such process command. Thank Jim. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Jim Bruce wrote: > If you have both values (before and after change), maybe you could use > PERFORM-ACTION-MAP-GROUPIDS-TO-NAMES process. > > If field GroupListBefore c

Turn off AREA LDAP Polling?

2016-03-19 Thread Sinclair, Keith
If I recall correctly, there is a way to tell Remedy to not make periodic AD checks every so often with a user's account that signed into Remedy using AREA LDAP but for the life of me, I cannot remember how or where it's done. Anyone know where the setting is at? Keith Sinclair Remedy Developme

Re: Confusion over AR_SERVER_INFO values as changed in the Rel 9 API - even worse with 9.1.0

2016-03-19 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi Mark, Do you really think that the server will map 379 to 380 depending on the client API version? The API version in ar.h seems to be the same in the sample Ben gave us. To me it seems unsettling that the C-API is not updated in the same way as the Java-API. But I guess this was bound to happ