Re: CMDB Authentication failed error

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Williams
Guys, Which version(s) of CMDB are you using? Older versions had a known issue regarding the ssp command to set the AR System Port Number. Are you working in environments where the AR System uses a specific Port? If so, if you are using CMDB 1.1 Patch 2 or later, you should be able to

Re: CMDB Authentication failed error

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Siva, Sorry - didn't get an attachment. If it's a short error message, post it in this thread, otherwise feel free to mail the attachment to me off list. Cheers Chris. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: $PROCESS$ Application-Invoke-External-Filter bmc.cmdb.cmdbEngine PHASE=2 CLIENTTYPE=$CLIENT-TYPE$

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Williams
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Williams Sent: 24 May 2007 01:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: $PROCESS$ Application-Invoke-External-Filter bmc.cmdb.cmdbEngine PHASE=2 CLIENTTYPE=$CLIENT-TYPE$ ** Francois, What type of information

Re: $PROCESS$ Application-Invoke-External-Filter bmc.cmdb.cmdbEngine PHASE=2 CLIENTTYPE=$CLIENT-TYPE$

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Williams
, whould I be able to plugin my own external filter ? Hugo On 5/24/07, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Francois, What type of information are you after? You should see 2 Filters in your CMDB which contain this special Set Fields from $PROCESS$ command (From my memory I recall

Re: $PROCESS$ Application-Invoke-External-Filter bmc.cmdb.cmdbEngine PHASE=2 CLIENTTYPE=$CLIENT-TYPE$

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Williams
Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 5/24/07, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Hugo, I haven't seen this specific command documented anywhere in any official BMC Documents. If you wanted to create and run your own external programs, you can

Re: Results List keep magically re-appearing when displaying single Incident.

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Rick, I think it may be a new feature of the User Tool. I've noticed something similar with the same patched version of the User Tool: When you run a search on a form which returns no results, then flick between this window and another window twice. Your original Search Window has the

Re: SLM Install

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Williams
In theory you should only get this if you haven't enabled Dev Cache mode and applied the SLM Application License (which probably requires a restart of the AR Server, or a signal to re-read the license file). Make sure you have fulfilled both of these pre-requisites..If you have, then it's time to

Re: Remedy forms

2007-05-14 Thread Chris Williams
Does the form have multiple views, and if so, did you change the value in all of them? If you want to be really drastic, delete the field, save the form, then e-create the field with the same ID. Flush the mid-tier cache again afterwards. HTH Chris. _ From: Action Request System

Re: Problem with TMS:Task in SLM ITSM 7

2007-05-11 Thread Chris Williams
Arturo, I had this issue with SLM 7.0.03, though SLM 7.0.02 seemed OK. Despite the status never updating, it looks like the command completed successfully and the form and filters are usually built. HTH Chris. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Help with SHR:ARDBC_OverviewConsole

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Guillermo, I’m not sure if it will answer your question specifically, but there is a useful White paper on ITSM 7.0 Architecture which you can download from the BMC Support Site under the Product Documentation section. This White paper gives detailed information about exactly how the

Re: The SLM:Measurement form..

2007-05-04 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Joe, We talking about SLM 7.x and the zSLMGen... prefixed filters on HPD:Help Desk form that were created for Service Targets specifically? If so, then the qualification should look for an existing record. If it doesn't find one, then a new one is created. That's what you *should* be seeing

Re: C API for Service Desk

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Williams
Mikhail, Also be aware that in Incident Management 7.0, there is a form called HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator. Entries are submitted here during the process for entering a new ticket (I believe this is after you select the customer the ticket is for). To avoid unexpected behaviour of Incident

Re: Using command line import...

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Williams
Joe, I think you can get this by using the Admin Tool (or Import Tool) and hitting the F1 key for help. If you search for CLI you should find what you need. I don't have an installation in front of me right now, so can't send a list, unfortunately. HTH Chris. What are all the switches

Re: EIE - Falcon?

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Williams
From what I can gather looking at the contents of the patches, yes, it is exactly this. Another internal codename has been used by accident is my guess. Installed it yesterday, and seems to be OK. Maybe just me, but the flat file samples shipped with EIE don't all work out of the box...CMDB

Re: Basic Help!

2007-03-29 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Nisha, Not unless you write your own Program using AR System API's to make the changes, then integrate this via workflow that uses a Run Process command... This kind of set-up does exist for specific cases. For example, if you use the BMC Remedy Atrium CMDB: the CMDB Engine is used to

Re: Driver.exe

2007-03-23 Thread Chris Williams
Alexander, If you're looking for a way to automate the export of def files from an AR Server from a Command Line, have you seen the Command-line Interface for the Admin Tool? Open up the Admin Tool, hit F1 and search for CLI. You'll find some information on how to use the Command-line

Re: Who's in charge of support at BMC? (U)

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Williams
If you can afford it, then I'm sure its greatbut quality should never depend on contract level! Chris Everone, I know that my support experiences are not the norm at BMC. I know that we all pay large amounts in maintenance and support and then a premium for Enterprise support. I also

Re: CMDB - Class Manager

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Williams
From memory, you have to be on CMDB 1.1 Patch 002 or anything above that to be able to add a menu to a character field via Class Manager. If you're on an earlier version, you can still do this AND do it in a supported way which won't get overwritten when you make subsequent changes (this is the

Re: Date Field default value

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Williams
Shibu, This is taken from the Admin Tool help file under the keywords section: Note: The $DATE$ keyword is not expanded when default values are set. This allows the value to be set to the date the form is submitted rather than the date the form is opened. Consequently, the literal keyword is

Re: CMDB - Asset Creation Prompt Message

2007-02-23 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Claire, I know that in ITSM 7, the system uses a SYS:Message Box form to hold note messages. Workflow just looks up an entry in this form, sets in a display only field then displays the contents of the field to the user. If you can't find it in the AR System Data Dictionary, then it would

Re: access permission

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Williams
You could try executing the folowing SQL: SELECT a.NAME, CASE WHEN b.groupid 0 THEN 'Role ID ' || b.groupid ELSE c.groupname END groupname, DECODE (b.permission, 1, 'Visible', 2, 'Hidden') permission FROM arschema a,

Re: Adding custom Permission Groups in ITSM 7

2007-02-18 Thread Chris Williams
Rebecca, If you're creating a new permission group, then you'll need to work out the format of the records in the LIC:SYS-License Permission Map form and create a new record to represent your new permission. One of the easiest ways may be to export the records to a CSV File, work out which

Re: ITSM 7 Create Company Slowness

2007-02-15 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Brian, I raised this issue with BMC a while ago. What you may be experiencing is a performance issue caused by a re-cache of the server. Whenever you create a new Company as an Operating Company or a Customer in ITSM 7.0, or any Support Group, this results in a new group being created in

Re: ITSM 7 Create Company Slowness

2007-02-15 Thread Chris Williams
+ Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 2/15/07, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brian, I raised this issue with BMC a while ago. What you may be experiencing is a performance issue caused by a re-cache of the server. Whenever you create a new Company as an Operating

Re: CMDB 1.1 Change Pending

2007-02-14 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Claire Robert, Don't forget, that if your changes to the Data Model didn't fully synchronise, there may be another way of forcing them through without having to recreate them or hack any of the meta data records in the OBJSTR prefixed forms... This method should work as long as the changes

Re: CMDB-Asset forms- Status Changes

2006-11-28 Thread Chris Williams
In which case, don't forget that the supported method of doing this is via the CMDB Class Manager. If you change this on the BMC prefixed forms directly, then subsequent changes to the CMDB via Class Manager *may* overwrite any previous changes you've made directly to the forms via the Admin

Re: ITSM 7 - Asset 7.0 Disturbing Behavior

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Williams
Mike, Check your permissions. You'll need to be an Asset Admin member to use the buttons (at least to start with anyway...permissions are more complex now). NB: If you change your permissions, you will need to shut down the user tool completey and then re-open it! This is to clear the global

Re: Question: Title Case

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Williams
If you are on Oracle, function INITCAP() exists. For example: SELECT INITCAP ('JOE SMITH') FROM DUAL will return: Joe Smith HTH Chris. You could try to do it via OLE in Word if you couldn't find any other way L. J. Head Software Engineer Remedy Approved Consultant -Original

Re: OT: Excel

2006-08-31 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Lars, Off the top of my head I can't think of any function that would do exactly that, but depending on what you are trying to achieve, you might be able to get the results you want from a Pivot Table. HTH Chris. But data from ars Is there a way, I know it is, to make a diagram based

Re: Remedy Asset Tracking in HD 6

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Claire, This is taken (in the order that they appear) from Asset Management 6.0: Ordered Received Being Assembled Deployed In Repair Down End of Life Transferred Delete In Inventory On Loan Disposed Reserved Return to Vendor HTH Chris. Would some kind soul out there that IS working today,

Re: Business Time 2.0

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Jake, From what I've seen so far, these forms are used for Service Level Management 7.0 You can configure a Service Target in SLM to use a Business Entity. You then relate each Business Time Segment to the Entity it belongs to in a Parent-Child, One to Many type heirarchy. The Entity is the

Re: Support Groups - Group ID

2006-08-17 Thread Chris Williams
Chris, Have a look at the CTM:SYS-Access Permission Grps form. From memory, this acts as the link between Support Group entries and Real Permission Groups. I think this form is also used to map Operating Company entries to Real Permission Groups too. HTH Chris. Working with ITSM v7. I am

Re: CMDB 2.0

2006-07-20 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Byron, Not entirely sure that I follow what you're trying to find out... From what I understand, attributes in the CMDB aren't involved directly with Change Requests (though I've only briefly looked at Change Management 7.0). A Change Request coudl certainly mean that CI Data is modified as

ARS V 7.0 Required Fields Enhancement

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Williams
Greetings All, For anybody currently running with ARS 7.0, or about to upgrade to ARS 7.0, here's a brief heads up regarding a change to the behaviour of the AR Server when validating Required Fields for a form. In Older versions of ARS, a Filter could legally set a required Field to NULL as

Re: ARS V 7.0 Required Fields Enhancement

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Williams
, that which can be explained by incompetence. On 7/18/06, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, For anybody currently running with ARS 7.0, or about to upgrade to ARS 7.0, here's a brief heads up regarding a change to the behaviour of the AR Server when validating Required

Re: CMDB PERMISSIONS

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Williams
Hi Sergio, I've implemented row level access security (effectively making use of the Read Security) in the CMDB and Asset Management, though I did not have to implement Write Security at the time. Considering the design of AM 6.0, this isn't going to be that clean, but it should be possible...

Re: Attachment Size

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Williams
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Re: Invalid role 2 relationship

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Williams
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Re: Question: DDE.INI

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Williams
Tyrone, Make sure you've got a closing square bracket around the first excelrecord tag: [excelrecord] Path=c:\excel\excel.exe Application=excel Topic=system Format=TAB ... HTH Chris. I copied and pasted the example from the help file for DDE.INI. However, when I run it from Remedy User

Re: Question: DDE.INI

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Williams
XFRDATA= Clipboard Command1 = [FileNew .Template = Normal, .NewTemplate = 0] Command2=[Editpaste] HTH Chris. Thanks Chris - I put the ] in, however, still getting the same error. Ty Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tyrone, Make sure you've got a closing square bracket around

Re: Invalid role 2 relationship

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Williams
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Williams Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 5:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Invalid role 2 relationship Hi Maxim, According to the manual (CMDB 1.1 Patch 002)... Error 120100 One

ARSPerl for ARS 7

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Williams
Greetings listers, A bit premature, I know, but am interested to find out if the ARSPerl people have been involved in the ARSystem 7.0 Early Access Program, and if there is likely to be a new version of ARSPerl coming out for it? If the current version is compatible with the new 7.0 product,

Re: ARSPerl for ARS 7

2006-05-08 Thread Chris Williams
, that which can be explained by incompetence. On 5/8/06, Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings listers, A bit premature, I know, but am interested to find out if the ARSPerl people have been involved in the ARSystem 7.0 Early Access Program, and if there is likely to be a new