Re: Oracle LOB getting very big

2009-04-24 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Misi, I'll try to regurgitate what was said to me from my Oracle DBA regarding this exact situation. (Disclaimer: I'm not a real Oracle DBA...I just play one on TV.) Also, it was shared with me about two years ago, so there's a layer of dust on this memory. 1. In Row/Out of Row: By

Re: 7017

2008-02-28 Thread Davies, J.T.
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7017 ** Well...based on past history with Remedy, I would say its a Registry setting that's not set to what Remedy expects it to be From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent

Re: 7017

2008-02-28 Thread Davies, J.T.
Subject: Re: 7017 ** Which revision 1.5.0 are you using? java -version Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:59 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re

Re: 7.1 upgrade?

2007-12-27 Thread Davies, J.T.
/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: 7.1 upgrade

Re: Handling 10,000+ tickets in an escalation

2007-12-19 Thread Davies, J.T.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought actions occurring with escalations stay within the escalation thread (even filters, etc.) in 6.x and 7.x? This negated the capability to have an escalation do a Set Field of Delete = Yes, and then having a filter do the actual delete -- instead of

Re: Urgent - user_cache

2007-12-07 Thread Davies, J.T.
The -f switch does do a flush of the data. (7.0 Config book, page 355) J.T. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 4:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Urgent - user_cache

2007-12-07 Thread Davies, J.T.
Are you running arreload with the debug switch? (-d, I believe)...this should show a constant stream of work being done. With that many records, it may indeed take a long while to complete. I'd imagine you could shut ARS down, truncate the user_cache table, and restart ARS...but in my opinion,

Re: Friday Humor - Questions that have Confused humankind!!

2007-12-07 Thread Davies, J.T.
Speaking of the north pole...what if you had one of those clocks/watches that was 'timezone-aware'... And what if you were standing at a radius of about 1 foot from the north pole and ran around it in a circle...would you speed forward in time (emit hguorht sdrawkcab neve ro)? :) I should

Queries on a push field?

2007-12-05 Thread Davies, J.T.
I was running some performance queries (inserting Panacea plug here ;)) and ran across a strange situation. Maybe someone's seen this before. Basically, a select query is being sent to the DB when a Push Fields action is being executed. The target for this push has 2.5 million rows (Help Desk

Re: Queries on a push field?

2007-12-05 Thread Davies, J.T.
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:41 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Queries on a push field? I was running some performance queries (inserting Panacea plug here

Re: AutoRestartARS whereabouts?

2007-12-03 Thread Davies, J.T.
The AutoRestart may be built into the arserver routines: it simply ends the process/program when the threshold is reached. Then, armonitor will restart it automatically. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Ann Kosch Sent: Mon 12/3/2007

Ranting about Support...again...

2007-11-20 Thread Davies, J.T.
Don't mind me...I'm just standing in the corner blowing off steam... I guess BMC's initial response SLA (which is published on their website (1)) doesn't mean the bits and bytes they're coded with anymore... I put in an issue on 11/15 (as severity 4-Low)...and have yet to receive confirmation -

Re: Action form, safe to delete records?

2007-11-06 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Rabi, Only 500? I had 300,000+. According to support, you can delete them safely. There is a bug in the workflow that doesn't delete them after process. (Sorry, I don't have the bug ID.) The best I can describe is this form is it's a queue used for internal actions... The application

Re: ITSM 7 SLM: Anyone using it in a REAL world environment?

2007-10-31 Thread Davies, J.T.
through the KB, I think one problem I might be having is a bunch of orphaned records in the Application Pending form. Thanks, Matt From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent: Wednesday, October

Re: Database issue

2007-10-30 Thread Davies, J.T.
We went through this exact change about two months ago. Our 60gig DB went down to 13gig overnight after my DBA's rebuilt the tables with this parameter. I can't see a reason why you wouldn't use this on an Oracle database...(but then, I'm still pretty green to Oracle.) J.T. -Original

Re: Opening the User tool via VB?

2007-10-03 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Matt, I could see why the first scenario did that. It's the VB app that has a handle on the called app, so when your app closes, so do all processes spawned from it. In the second...somethings missing and I can't place my finger on it, but, to answer your question, according to the KB:

Re: Opening the User tool via VB?

2007-10-03 Thread Davies, J.T.
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davies, J.T. Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Opening the User tool via VB? ** Hi Matt, I could see why the first scenario did that. It's the VB app that has a handle

Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
Good Friday morning...finally. I'm new to the Java development world, and yet I've been tasked with something fairly intermediate/advanced. Here's my situation: I need to have Remedy communicate to a LDAP for authentication (via AREA). I can't use the stuff provided by BMC/Remedy because it

Re: Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
Pick two. On 9/21/07, Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good Friday morning...finally. I'm new to the Java development world, and yet I've been tasked with something fairly intermediate/advanced. Here's my situation: I need to have Remedy communicate to a LDAP

Re: Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
performing a bind operation? Axton Grams On 9/21/07, Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good Friday morning...finally. I'm new to the Java development world, and yet I've been tasked with something fairly intermediate/advanced. Here's my situation: I need to have Remedy communicate

Re: Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 9/21/07, Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Carey, Well crap! We're on 7.0.1 J.T. -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
. If the authentication is successful and the server supports subsequent authentication, then the credentials field contains the string defined by response-auth in section 2.1.3 of [4]. Support for subsequent authentication is OPTIONAL in clients and servers. ... Axton Grams On 9/21/07, Davies, J.T

Re: Sample java LDAP plugin

2007-09-21 Thread Davies, J.T.
, you may be able to meet your security requirements. The sample area plug-in code looks to do what you want. Axton Grams On 9/21/07, Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibility. However, I think the lack of native Java support will provide an argument to upgrade to 7.1(.1) sooner rather

Re: ARS 7.01 -P4

2007-09-05 Thread Davies, J.T.
I encountered this problem too. It seems to originate from the Sync Search DB functionality. BMC Support says to delete the object* forms (and not set up the sync search db). That fixed my problems without reinstalling. I haven't tried to see if the fixed P004 allows it to run successfully

Re: !HELP! - SLM does not move from attached status

2007-08-27 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Emad, I've found that in SLM 7+, they've re-written how the records are started. You should have a bunch of filters attached to HPD:Help Desk that show the start, stop, pending, etc. If they aren't there, you can regenerate them: Go to the Application Admin Console, Custom Config, Service

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Davies, J.T.
I believe you need it if you want to consume other' published web services...? J.T. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:54 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Email engine and large number of groups

2007-07-28 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Jarl, I can't believe I'm responding at 2:30 in the morning (PDT). In version 7, there's an option for the EmailDaemon.properties file to prevent this from happening: Com.remedy.arsys.emaildaemon.FetchUserGroupInfoOnDemand = true / false Page 238 of the 7.0 Email Engine book. Instead of

Re: Error - ARERR 1631155

2007-07-12 Thread Davies, J.T.
You might want to also include the Filter log..(perhaps combine the two in a single log file). If an escalation updates a field, the filters will fire. It won't record in the Escalation log... J.T. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Error - ARERR 1631155

2007-07-12 Thread Davies, J.T.
If you think about it...system messages are less than 10,000. (i.e. 93 - unable to connect) Workflow errors are above 10,000... BMC/Remedy wouldn't be able to keep all their system and workflow errors below 10,000...(there aren't enough numbers if they used a unique number for every error!) ha

Re: Error 297: Admin released license too recently

2007-07-12 Thread Davies, J.T.
Michael, Are you manually releasing the license (through the Manage Users window) or are you relying on the timeout as noted below? If you're manually releasing, then I believe that is a fixed value by BMC -- an administrator can only release a specific license so many times per duration of

Re: ARS v7.0.1P2 LIST threads initiate inexplainably

2007-07-11 Thread Davies, J.T.
do the crashes happen, does the arserver recover on its own? Currently on Server 7.0.1 patch 2 and ITSM 7.0.2 patch 3 for all modules connecting to Oracle 10g db. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: ARS v7.0.1P2 LIST threads initiate inexplainably

2007-07-10 Thread Davies, J.T.
Hi Susan, I've experienced these errors before, too, a long time ago: Signal 5 termination on a specific thread. I was able to trace it back to a workflow problem, and with your jump from 5.1.2 to 7.0, I'd imagine you might be in the same boat. What I found was with the Run Process commands.

JOB: Developer in Vancouver, WA

2007-06-11 Thread Davies, J.T.
New Edge Networks (a subsidiary of Earthlink) is looking for a full-time, permanent Remedy Developer. If interested, please forward me your resume and I'll provide further details. Please no agencies. Thanks J.T. Davies New Edge Networks, Inc.