Installing 7.6.0.4 midtier on linux/apache/tomcat

2011-11-10 Thread James Pifer
We have a 64 bit sles11sp1 system now running 7.6.0.4 after going through the upgrade process. It's a custom system with no ITSM. For midtier we did this: 1) As suggestion, installed apache from source rather than use sles packages. It's located at /usr/local/apache2 2) Ran the installer for t

Sending email using preformat

2009-04-15 Thread James Pifer
We're using ARS 7.x. Is there any way to send an email notification and force the body to use preformat so you can force things to stay on one line instead of wrapping? For example, in the Notify Text you could have: Status=$Status$ Group=$Assigned To Group$ Summary=$Summary$ So this email would

Re: Java API/ARS 7.1 question [Resolved]

2009-03-25 Thread James Pifer
I was able to get my hands on 7.5 api. 100% java is VERY nice, works great. Also works on 64bit. James ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Ans

Re: Java API/ARS 7.1 question

2009-03-25 Thread James Pifer
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:51 -0500, Axton wrote: > ** Yes, a rather painful way to get them out. The new installers pack > everything in a file that I do not know how to unpack, so an install > of the server is required to get the api's. I will not be able to > accomodate this for HPUX or AIX sinc

Re: Java API/ARS 7.1 question

2009-03-24 Thread James Pifer
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:26 +0100, Michiel Beijen wrote: > ** James, > > I saw a reference to 'lib64' in your error message. > > Please make sure that you use a 32-bit version of Java - the 7.1 API > libs contain JNI and are not 100% 'pure' java. > > You could also use the 7.5 api libs, which a

Re: Java API/ARS 7.1 question

2009-03-23 Thread James Pifer
+31 6 - 457 42 418 > Bee Free IT + http://beefreeit.nl > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 16:45, James Pifer > wrote: > I've had no luck getting IBM Netcol Gateway connected to ARS > 7.1. > Technically it's not supported, so I'm lookin

Re: Java API/ARS 7.1 question

2009-03-23 Thread James Pifer
ion Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of James Pifer > Sent: March 23, 2009 4:45 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Java API/ARS 7.1 question > > I've had no luck getting IBM Netcol Gateway connected to ARS 7.1. > Techn

Java API/ARS 7.1 question

2009-03-23 Thread James Pifer
I've had no luck getting IBM Netcol Gateway connected to ARS 7.1. Technically it's not supported, so I'm looking at other options. I'm looking at creating tickets using Java API and then updating back to Netcool using nco_sql. ARS 7.1 is running on linux. From another linux machine I'm trying a v

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:35 -0400, Dip Patel wrote: > ** We ran into this Issue couple of days back when we switched our > servers from Portmapped to manual port assignment. > > Try the following... > a) Check if this variable is set in the Gateway config file.. > > TCP_FLAG =

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:39 -0500, Tony Worthington wrote: > ** Yes - depending on your shell/os. I remember us having this same > issue a while back. The env variable resolved our issues. > Setting the environment variable does seem to help. At least it tries to connect on 9901 now. Still does

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:29 -0500, Tony Worthington wrote: > ** Have you indicated the tcp port on the netcool server via > environment variables? ARTCPPORT etc... > Not in the environment variables, only in the conf. Can you give me more info on the environment variable? Would it be: ARTCPPORT=

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:26 -0400, Frank Caruso wrote: > ** We just went from 6.3 to 7.1 ARS servers and it broke our Netcool > gateway. If I remember correctly there was an incompatibility between > the NCG 6.3 and ARS 7.1. Something to do with how NCG 6.3 does > authentication was not working aga

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:12 -0500, Shyman, Jonathan wrote: > James, > > This is strange. If I read this right you are saying that Remedy User > Tool can connect from client desktops but the NetCool "client" cannot > connect to Remedy? > > My first question would be this: By "no firewa

Re: AW: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:52 +0100, Conny Martin wrote: > James, > > telnet my.arserver.com 9901 > > should work. You won't see any output, but the connection get's accepted by > the arserverd process. > > Here's an example. This server listens on TCP-Port 4488 > > arad...@affhc041:/apps/javap

Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
We just upgraded our server from Win32/ARS 6.x to Linux/ARS 7.1. We also use Netcool and I'm having trouble getting Netcool's Remedy Gateway to connect to the new server. Couple questions: We're running ARS on port 9901. Clients connect fine and I can see in a netstat -a that it's listening, but n

Re: LDAP lookup problems

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 19:20 -0400, Begosh, Kevin wrote: > James, > I have gone over and over this with BMC. The query that BMC has using the > vendor form times out a lot unless you put in a CN. We had to for ours. I > used CN=Users, then when you bring up a vendor form you can change the quer

LDAP lookup problems

2009-03-18 Thread James Pifer
We've just moved to a new ARS 7.1 backend system. During this upgrade we're also making heavy use of LDAP for user management. I'm not the remedy expert so I'll explain this the best I can. Issue 1) On the Remedy side we created an ARDBC LDAP Configuration. We also created a Vendor Form. This was

Re: How do you setup a server alias in ARS/midtier 7?

2009-02-04 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:02 -0700, LJ Longwing wrote: > James, > It's relatively easy to do, you simply add another server to your > midtier server list of helpdesk, ensuring that the midtier server can > resolve helpdesk to the same ip as server1. The downside of doing > this is that your homepag

How do you setup a server alias in ARS/midtier 7?

2009-02-03 Thread James Pifer
I have a server let's call SERVER1. I want the server, specifically midtier, to work with multiple names. For example, I want these two URLs to work on the same server: http://server1.domain.com/arsys/forms/server1/Remedy+Support+Console/Support/ http://server1.domain.com/arsys/forms/helpdesk/Rem

Re: Finally got 7.1 installed on SLES10SP2 with Oracle 10g, but arserver fails

2008-09-16 Thread James Pifer
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:27 -0700, Joe DeSouza wrote: > ** > > After stopping the services, ,do you have any runaway ARS > related processes still running?? If so kill them and then start > ARS... > > Joe If I stop the service everything seems to stop cleanly, no rogue processes. It has someth

Re: Finally got 7.1 installed on SLES10SP2 with Oracle 10g, but arserver fails

2008-09-15 Thread James Pifer
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 11:03 -0700, Joe DeSouza wrote: > ** > > Is this a root or a non root install? If you have installed as > non-root, have you modified the rpc as instructed during the install? > root install. Thanks, James __

Finally got 7.1 installed on SLES10SP2 with Oracle 10g, but arserver fails

2008-09-15 Thread James Pifer
I finally got through the installation of ARS 7.1 on SLES10SP2 with Oracle 10g, after modifying the installation script, then modifying the oracle commands to support Oracle's RAC systems. Unfortunately I don't think the installation finished completely: Action Request System(R) Server Versio

Re: Can't install ARS 7.1 on SLES 10

2008-09-12 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 20:23 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I'm trying to install ARS 7.1 on SLES 10. I've tried both SLES 10 SP1 > 32bit and SLES 10 SP2 64 bit. On both systems I get about the same > error: > # ./ar_install > > ./ar_install: line 4595: release-notes-sle

Re: Can't install ARS 7.1 on SLES 10

2008-09-11 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:43 -0700, Joe DeSouza wrote: > ** > > James, > > On re-reading your post that may not be your problem - I hit the send > button too early.. Your earlier errors indicate some sort of a missing > library? You are probably working on an incompatible solaris version? > Did

Can't install ARS 7.1 on SLES 10

2008-09-11 Thread James Pifer
I'm trying to install ARS 7.1 on SLES 10. I've tried both SLES 10 SP1 32bit and SLES 10 SP2 64 bit. On both systems I get about the same error: # ./ar_install ./ar_install: line 4595: release-notes-sles-10.2.0.12SUSE: command not found ./ar_install: line 6394: =0: command not found expr: syntax er

Licensing Question

2008-07-28 Thread James Pifer
We're currently running ARS 6.x and Helpdesk 4.x. We looked at upgrading Remedy, but the costs are just too high. In the meantime we've been looking at replacing it with something else, even looking at Service Desk Express (formerly Magic). Unfortunately our maintenance is due soon. My salesperso

Re: Group Problem

2007-04-18 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:11 -0400, Axton wrote: > If the group is in the Group form, the server probably just needs to > rebuild the group cache. Wait 15 minutes after creating the group and > try again. There are 2 parts to adding a group in HD 4 - > SHR:Assignment (straight data) and the Group

Re: Group Problem

2007-04-17 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:11 -0400, Axton wrote: > If the group is in the Group form, the server probably just needs to > rebuild the group cache. Wait 15 minutes after creating the group and > try again. There are 2 parts to adding a group in HD 4 - > SHR:Assignment (straight data) and the Group

Group Problem

2007-04-17 Thread James Pifer
We're running ARS 6.3/Helpdesk 4.0.3. I'm trying to add a group and having a weird problem. I go through Configuration Manager and add the group and as far as I can tell it adds fine. If I then go to Group Population I can select the new group, but when I click the "Add Person..." button I get an

Re: DST Patch - What if I don't load it?

2007-03-05 Thread James Pifer
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:15 -0800, Benitz, Tony : CO IR wrote: > Long time reader, first time poster. > > I am new to being a remedy admin. The job was thrust upon me when the old > admin left. So my knowledge of the app is VERY limited. > > Now we have the DST patch to deal with. > > My envir

Re: 7.x Install problem; CentOS/Oracle 10g

2007-02-01 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:04 -0700, Russell Wurth wrote: > I recall a similar error when the installer user did not have execute > permissions on some of the Oracle directories. > > You also might want to try and put ORACLE_HOME/bin in your path > > I am curious what you had to do to patch the ar

Re: 7.x Install problem; CentOS/Oracle 10g

2007-02-01 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:04 -0700, Russell Wurth wrote: > I recall a similar error when the installer user did not have execute > permissions on some of the Oracle directories. > > You also might want to try and put ORACLE_HOME/bin in your path > > I am curious what you had to do to patch the ar

7.x Install problem; CentOS/Oracle 10g

2007-02-01 Thread James Pifer
I'm trying to install a test box to look at version 7.x. I have Centos and Oracle 10g installed. When I run through the ar_install script (patched for CentOS) it bombs when it tries to connect to Oracle. Complete list below. I can connect to oracle fine from a remote machine and locally using sqlp

Installing ARS and Service Desk on Fedora Core 6?

2007-01-29 Thread James Pifer
I have a test machine that has Fedora Core 6 and Oracle 10G installed. I'd like to install ARS and Service Desk 7.x on it to play around with. When I try to run the install I get: # ./ar_install ./ar_install: line 5845: =0: command not found ./ar_install: line 5845: =0: command not found Operating

Re: How much RAM for v7?

2007-01-17 Thread James Pifer
you have, and what applications will they be > using? > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Pifer > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:37 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

How much RAM for v7?

2007-01-17 Thread James Pifer
I'm putting together a new server to install(upgrade to) v7. My current server is running Win2K and has 3 GB of RAM. If I look at available memory there's 2 GB of physical memory available. The current server is ARS 6.x/Helpdesk 4.03 and running MidTier on IIS. Our database is Oracle but located o

Helpdesk 4.0.3 --->>> 7.x

2007-01-16 Thread James Pifer
We're currently running ARS 6.3 and Helpdesk 4.03. I'm looking at upgrading to version 7 for both ARS and Helpdesk and I've been in discussion with a consulting firm to do it. To make a long story short they are saying that BMC recommends we bring up a new system and start using it fresh. Keep th

Re: Email Engine Error: No arutiljni63 in java.library.path

2006-12-01 Thread James Pifer
I've had this issue with the libraries on linux. In my case even though ldconfig was configured for the libraries I had to have this environment variable before I could get things to work: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ar63 So I have this in /etc/rc.local so it happens on boot: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/u

Re: Local Remedy User Group - Charlotte NC

2006-11-15 Thread James Pifer
I would be interested too. Thanks, James On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:42 -0500, Scott Lodge wrote: > I would be interested as well. > > Scott Lodge > Remedy System Administrator / Developer > MadisonRiver Communications > Mebane, NC > 919-563-8377 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 'A computer lets you make

Quick Report in MidTier?

2006-09-01 Thread James Pifer
>From our client (6.3) we have a quick report button that prints out a ticket and the specified fields so you get a report that has all the information from the fields in the report. What report options are there from midtier? Just printing from the browser only gives you what you can see of cours

Re: Remedy 7 on CentOS?, other Linuxes

2006-08-23 Thread James Pifer
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 06:44 -0500, Doug Blair wrote: > Axton - > > I was trying the same thing with the Fedora project Linux release. Aside > from changing the name of the release and commenting out the section of the > install script where it looks for the redhat AS (Advanced Server) version, >

Remedy 7 on CentOS?

2006-08-16 Thread James Pifer
I'm going to be upgrading to Remedy 7 soon. At the same time I'm going to switch from Windows 2000 to Linux. For those running linux, is anyone running on CentOS? What version of CentOS OR Redhat Enterprise are people running? Any other linux flavors being run? Thanks, James _

Don't see my own posts?

2006-05-16 Thread James Pifer
I haven't been able to figure this out. For some reason I do not see my own posts to this list. I've also compared my settings with a friend of mine who is also on the list and he receives his own posts with no problem. Our settings appear to be the same. I'm using evolution on fedora core. I use

Suggestions/help creating an escalation or filter for Netcool events

2006-04-28 Thread James Pifer
We use Netcool version 3.6 for creating remedy tickets for certain events. Netcool successfully sends the information, Remedy creates the ticket, and successfully sends update information back to Netcool. Here's the problem I have. I'm now being asked to create some tickets on certain events, but