HW Requirements for ARS 7.6.04 (Document)

2012-02-08 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Fellows Do you know if there's a specific document for Hardware Requirements and Sizing when installing ARS 7.6.04? As per my knowledge there's a BMC document named "Reference Architecture for BMC Service Support Solutions using BSM 7.6 Components" but this document was released for ITSM 7.6

Re: Two Asset Management Questions

2012-02-08 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Shawn: Question n° 1 can be solved using AST:AssetPeople forms which stores relationships between Assets and Companies, Organizations, Support Groups and People. Question n° 2 can be solved using Manage Bulk Updates options in Asset Management Console, which allows you to search CI's by Sit

Normalization Engine (NE): Autocomplete CTI based on Model/Manufacturer

2012-02-01 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Listers I've been testing NE in Atrium CMDB 7.5 patch 003 and I have some questions I hope you can be kind to answer. I've configured NE for using Inline Normalization, so CTI and Model/ManufacturerName will be completed/corrected in real time when creating or modifying CI's. I´ve configure

RV: Technical Questions about using Service and CI fields in HPD:Help Desk form (Best Practice View)

2012-01-04 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers: Any advice, comments, related experience related with questions I made it will be useful. Cheers, Alejandro De: Alejandro Canon Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de enero de 2012 12:31 Para: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Asunto: Technical Questions about using Service

Re: How to use ITSM web service to create work log records

2011-11-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
Jiri: According what you've written, you're getting ARERR messages when consuming HPD_IncidentInterface_WS for Operation Set. That WS when consumed tries to update Incident record and also creating a Worklog record related to the incident (if you have sent Worklog Data) Even although you may wa

Atrium CMDB-Asset Integration: Issue when relating Business Services with Companies

2011-11-21 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Listers ARS 7.6.04 SP1 CMDB 7.6.04 ITSM 7.6.04 We have about 40 customers, each one of them with its Company record. When relating Companies to some business Service CI's (AST:AssetPeople) through People tab in AST:BusinessService form, we're facing this issue related: Value does not fall wi

Re: Allowed to delete a Base field in Overlay form?

2011-11-10 Thread Alejandro Canon
Please check Document: Introduction to Application Development with Remedy Developer Studio (Page 28, Best Practice Customization Mode) "You cannot create, directly modify, or delete origin objects (objects created in Base Development mode)." HTH, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion

Re: CMDB 2.1: Clearing the default value for the priority field

2011-10-24 Thread Alejandro Canon
I did it a couple of times and it works fine, no related issues. Priority field in CMDB is not related with Priority field in ITSM forms. But you may need to consider some scheduled downtime for your CMDB environment because that field belongs to Base Element, therefore new default value needs to

Relating Companies to CI's - Company Level

2011-10-19 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Listers ARS 7.6.04 CMDB 7.6.04 ITSM 7.6.04 I´m trying to relate some Business Service CI's to Customer Companies, but it can be done just for Companies with Organization or Departments. When opening CTM:People Organization (Dialog View) from People tab in Asset Record, just allows to relate

RV: Atrium Core 7.6.04: Table View (Atrium Explorer) does not allow to add specific subclasses fields as columns in table.

2011-10-17 Thread Alejandro Canon
Any advice, comment about it? Regards, Alejandro De: Alejandro Canon Enviado el: Miércoles, 10 de Agosto de 2011 18:28 Para: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Asunto: Atrium Core 7.6.04: Table View (Atrium Explorer) does not allow to add specific subclasses fields as columns in table. Hi Fello

Re: Dashboards 7.6.0.1 cannot connect to the Remedy Data Source

2011-10-14 Thread Alejandro Canon
Pete: Can you try to add ARSystem DB as an external DataSource using DB Credentials? I mean not using standard ARSystem integration but using direct integration to SQL Server 2008. Just for discarding connectivity/authentication issues. Regards, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion l

Re: Web Service getlist can not fetech more than 700 records and give request time out

2011-10-13 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Listers, As per my experience (even though ARS is not limited for searching) you may to consider several factors when enabling a Web Service for long queries (OpGetList). - Amount of records: (Do you really need to get more than 700-1000 records?) - Packet Size per Query

Re: ARERR 120039 - operation violates the cardinality constraint...

2011-10-07 Thread Alejandro Canon
Gerard: ARERR 120039 refers to wrong defined cardinality for a relationship instance in CMDB where its relationship definition for cardinality is different. Example: If you have defined some relationship class named "A" as "1-1" cardinality, and you've created two CI's and related them using "A"

Re: Web Services and Qualifications

2011-10-06 Thread Alejandro Canon
this out. Just tried it and it's working fine now. Now I can go back to the programmer and officially say "It's working for me!" Thanks again!! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Alejandro Canon Sent: Wednes

Re: Web Services and Qualifications

2011-10-05 Thread Alejandro Canon
Lisa: You should use 'Category' = "ADMIN" Single quotes for Field Label and double quotes for Field Value, just like Advanced Search way. HTH, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] En nombre de Kemes, Lisa Enviado el: Miércoles, 05 de Octu

RV: Old Question - About SVT Grouping and Multiple SVT for INC's Assigned Group

2011-09-27 Thread Alejandro Canon
Any comments? Cheers, Alejandro De: Alejandro Canon Enviado el: Lunes, 26 de Septiembre de 2011 10:27 Para: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Asunto: Old Question - About SVT Grouping and Multiple SVT for INC's Assigned Group Listers, I know my question could be a little bit silly and

Old Question - About SVT Grouping and Multiple SVT for INC's Assigned Group

2011-09-26 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers, I know my question could be a little bit silly and probably it was answered but I want to ask you "again" for SLM 7.6.04 (my apologies...) If you want to measure time where an Incident ticket is assigned to a specific group (OLA), independently of incident's status, should you use in

Question about Hardware Compatibility (ARS) - Processor Family

2011-09-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers, Some customer prospect asked us about "Processor Families" compatibles with ARS 7.6.04 and Benchmark Test made in order to specify Processor Requirements specified in "Reference Architecture for BMC Service Support Solutions using BSM 7.6 Components" document. We recommended Small Env

Re: Remedy HA installation guide

2011-09-02 Thread Alejandro Canon
You can check for Installation Guide and White Paper about Load Balancing. Regards, Alejandro -Mensaje original- De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] En nombre de uday kiran Enviado el: Jueves, 01 de Septiembre de 2011 20:31 Para: arslist@ARSLI

Re: Multi-tenancy Setup for ‘One Customer – Multiple Support Desks’ scenario

2011-08-31 Thread Alejandro Canon
Totally agree. It depends on Support Group Structure you may want to implement. If each SD needs to work only with their own tickets you need to create them as a company for each one. Also you need to set Restricted Access for specified Company in People Profile for each member of Support Groups.

Re: Staging Forn for WSDL Data?

2011-08-30 Thread Alejandro Canon
For SRM you can use OOTB: SRM:RequestInterface_Create (For creating Service Requests) SRM:RequestInterface (For querying and modifying Service Requests) For Task you can use OOTB TMS:TaskInterface (For querying and modifying Tasks) Interface forms allow you to validate data sent from External Sys

Re: Hcnfyfdgic

2011-08-29 Thread Alejandro Canon
I´ve enjoyed reading this thread... :) Thanks for giving us some "Monday Humor" By the way, be careful if: - Your cell phone is touch-screen based - You have an unlock pattern based on finger gesture (i.e drawing a Z, or an arrow) - You have kids. Alejandro De: Acti

Re: 7.6.04 - Dashboards Licensing

2011-08-25 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Claire: If you're talking about Flashboards (Graphics) inside Incident Console, users only need a Fixed/Floating License for Incident Management Module (i.e Incident User, Incident Master, Incident Config). So option 1 is your answer. It's same behavior for Problem Console, Change Console, A

Re: Can't Find the Data Management Install Path

2011-08-19 Thread Alejandro Canon
Sam: After installing ITSM you need to install Data Management Tool (DMT) in your PC/Notebook where Excel spreadsheets are stored. Once DMT has been installed you will see some additional folders under C:\Program Files\BMC Software\DataManagementClient\ (assuming you have selected that path for

Re: ARDBC LDAP/AD integration now runs very slow

2011-08-17 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Drew I had to develop some ARDBC integration with AD few years ago, its purpose was creating CTM:People records querying "User" AD Table. As deep as could be your LDAP query (i.e domain\subdomain\OU\anotherOU\Users) it will be more efficient and response time will be decreased. If you're que

Atrium Core 7.6.04: Table View (Atrium Explorer) does not allow to add specific subclasses fields as columns in table.

2011-08-10 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Fellows CMDB 7.6.04 When using Atrium Explorer and searching for CI's and adding them to a view (i.e to Sandbox. view or BMC.ASSET view) you can see all CI's searched as a Topology view (which show all CI's instances and relationships between CI's related) or a Table view (List of in

CMDB 7.6.04: Failed while doing promotion

2011-08-09 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers: ARS 7.6.04 SP1 CMDB 7.6.04 When doing promotion to BMC.ASSET for some changes made to a CI's following message appeared in Atrium Explorer "Failed while doing promotion" Login name used isn't Administrator but belongs to a custom regular group. That group was added in Group Qualifica

Re: AST forms opened when editing CI's through Atrium Explorer

2011-08-01 Thread Alejandro Canon
fused when they end up at the BMC.CORE form. I believe there is more in the works to eliminate the differences between BMC.CORE and AST. Jason On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Alejandro Canon mailto:aca...@extensionsa.com>> wrote: ** Listers, ARS 7.6.04 SP1 CMDB 7.6.04 ITSM 7.6.04 I'v

AST forms opened when editing CI's through Atrium Explorer

2011-07-27 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers, ARS 7.6.04 SP1 CMDB 7.6.04 ITSM 7.6.04 I've seen when trying to edit attribute values for a CI through Atrium Explorer, AST forms are being opened instead of BMC:CORE forms. I.e when picking some Computer System CI Instance in a Results Search list and moving it to a Sandbox view and

Re: Jumps in Incident ID numbers

2011-07-26 Thread Alejandro Canon
when the web service is being consumed it will > reserve a number, but it won't reserve a number if the web service is > not called, is that correct? > > Michael > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Alejandro Canon > wrote: >> Michael: >> >> Do you ha

Re: Adding Custom Attributes to Base Element

2011-07-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
Element ** Alejandro, I'd recommend you do not add them to Base Element. Instead create your own custom Class and add those attributes to that class. Otherwise, your next upgrade will be a nightmare. From: Alejandro Canon To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: F

Adding Custom Attributes to Base Element

2011-07-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers, ARS 7.6.04 SP1 CMDB 7.6.04 ITSM 7.6.04 I need to add about ten (10) attributes (common to all kind of CIs) to BaseElement. I've read some threads (dated about 2009) recommending to NOT ADD attributes in Base Element Class, because of known errors in Asset - CMDB Sync process. What's yo

Re: Jumps in Incident ID numbers

2011-07-21 Thread Alejandro Canon
Michael: Do you have published HPD:IncidentInterface_Create WebService or some external creation of incidents through HPD:IncidentInterface_Create form? Because of that interface form it will trigger Incident ID Reservation in HPD:Help Desk form. Even if Incident ticket is not created due to so

Re: 7.6.04 sp1 server specs

2011-07-21 Thread Alejandro Canon
We have a couple of customers with ARS & ITSM 7.6.04 under VM's, using VMWare VCenter Server and ESX Server. As far as now we haven't faced issues regarding performance due to using VM's. BMC supports VMWare and Hyper-V environments. If your Vm's have all virtual resources (Disk, RAM, CPU) dedica

Re: Assignment groups - sizing

2011-07-21 Thread Alejandro Canon
My experience: We have a customer with one assignment group (Support Group) with about 120 members. We had faced slow behavior in Notification Engine when triggering Group Assignment Notification Event for Incident Management. Also we had some troubles using Approval Process in Change Management

Re: Using Asset Status Field in CMDB Class Forms

2011-07-20 Thread Alejandro Canon
Peter Thanks for answering my message, we have Asset Management installed but not configured for now, so we want to use AssetLifecycleStatus value in CMDB Class Forms for storing Status for a CI until we can implement Asset Management Module. Regards, Alejandro Enviado desde Samsung Mobile

Re: ITSM Incident Priority - anybody successfully extended it?

2011-07-20 Thread Alejandro Canon
Agree with Christopher's message. Sometimes Impact and Urgency combination is a little bit "simple criteria" for calculating Priority. Priority definition should be driven by Incident Management Process, in order to establishing all factors (Impact, Urgency, Risk, Severity, Users Affected, Type

Re: ITSM Incident Priority - anybody successfully extended it?

2011-07-20 Thread Alejandro Canon
Jiri Few years ago I had to extend Impact, Urgency and Priority for Incident Form (ITSM 7.5). What I did was: - Create new selection values in HPD:CFG-Impact Form, these values need to respect order (Linear Enumeration) for Impact values: OOTB are 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, New Values sh

Re: Using Asset Status Field in CMDB Class Forms

2011-07-19 Thread Alejandro Canon
Listers, Any advice or related thread in ARSLIST regarding question posted? Regards, Alejandro De: Alejandro Canon Enviado el: Martes, 19 de Julio de 2011 10:35 Para: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Asunto: Using Asset Status Field in CMDB Class Forms Hi Fellows We're implementing CMDB 7.6.04

Using Asset Status Field in CMDB Class Forms

2011-07-19 Thread Alejandro Canon
Hi Fellows We're implementing CMDB 7.6.04 for a Customer who needs to deploy that application as a requirement for certifying ISO 2. Customer needs to register Status for each one of stored CI's in CMDB, so I was thinking in Status field declared in CDM Model for Base Element Class, that f

Re: Each Group control only their assets and not having access to other group's assets

2011-07-12 Thread Alejandro Canon
Talking about Multitenancy, please refer to Multitenancy Guide for how using CMDBRowLevelSecurity and CMDBWriteSecurity fields for Base Element class, so you can restrict read and write access for CI's using AR Groups. Best regards, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Creating bulk assets - Remedy 7.6.03

2011-06-30 Thread Alejandro Canon
In case of using AIE you may need to enable AIE Logs in order to verify if all exchanges/jobs are executed correctly. Regards, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] En nombre de JD Hood Enviado el: Jueves, 30 de Junio de 2011 9:02 Para: arsli

Re: Reoccurring Change Request

2011-06-28 Thread Alejandro Canon
You can use Asset Maintenance Scheduler for reoccurring Change Request, however you need to create Change Template with Change Type = Asset Maintenance. If you don't select this value you won't be able to see template in Schedule Criteria Form in order to create Schedule. Regards, Alejandro --

Re: Java Plugin Filter Plugin Time Outs

2011-06-23 Thread Alejandro Canon
d the arserver version is 7.5.patch 03 thanks Uday On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Alejandro Canon wrote: > First can you see Server Information form correctly? > When Plugin Server is down you can't see that form. > Also you can check status of Plugin Server by checking arplugin proce

Re: Java Plugin Filter Plugin Time Outs

2011-06-23 Thread Alejandro Canon
First can you see Server Information form correctly? When Plugin Server is down you can't see that form. Also you can check status of Plugin Server by checking arplugin process. Second do you have Remedy Web Services published on Mid Tier Server? What version of ARServer and MidTier do you have? T

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
If you need to change OOTB Group names (i.e Incident Master, Incident Submitter and so on) please try to reconsider it. There are several workflow objects (Active Links, Filters) built based on Run If qualifications that use Group Name. In case of Custom Group names there should be no problems u