Re: Adding Menus to AST forms

2010-05-03 Thread P Romain ARSlist
These fields are attributes in the CMDB. I'd suggest adding $NULL$ menus to the fields via the class manager or CMDB driver then use active link(s) on the AST form(s) to add the menu(s) you need. If you later change your mind about the menus, or change the menu names, then you then only nee

Re: white paper "AR Server in a clustered server envir onm ent"?

2010-05-03 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Can I ask why you want to use a Windows cluster? We have one running (ITSM 7, CMDB 2.1) but since one server is always off (as far as Remedy is concerned) it seems like a waste of a computer. We are soon to remove the cluster and replace it with a server group so that both computers can be

Re: How to accurately test fail-over

2010-04-17 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Have you tried turning on the server group logs? It's a while since I did this but I seem to remember that if the server group is set up correctly then you see the lower processes going to sleep on the lower ranked servers. You can also see the polling between servers checking that processes are r

Re: CMDB 7.6 Requires Flash on the Mid-Tier Web server?

2010-04-09 Thread P Romain ARSlist
The installation guide for Atrum 7.6 only tells you that clients need flash. I've done a number of installs and have only installed flash on the clients. I've no explanation for your experience though! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl..

Re: Problem while creating Asset forms

2010-02-28 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Personally I've never had any good experiences with the sync functionality. What I've done is to export the asset form of the super class to an xml file then edit the about 5 attributes in the xml to make it specific to the new class. Then import the xml file and share all the super class w

Re: Topology Dataset Discovery 1.6

2010-02-22 Thread P Romain ARSlist
What exactly is your colleague trying to achieve by manually updating CIs in the topo dataset? CIs are created in this dataset by the discovery tool when they are first discovered. The discovery tool has a policy to deal with CIs that it once discovered but which it now no longer finds.

Re: EIE Exchange field mapping

2010-01-07 Thread P Romain ARSlist
To get the benefit of the trusted dataset you'd need to map the tier 1-3 values to constants in your data exchange. This is what, for example, BMC Configuration Discovery does (all computer systems are Hardware, Processing Unit, Server). You may be able to add all possible computer systems,

Re: Atrium 7.6 Promote Sandbox Changes after server restart.

2009-12-01 Thread P Romain ARSlist
If the Application Pending entries are all inactive then try deleting them all and see if this makes any difference. Cheers Peter -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of dcharters Sent: 01 December 2009 18:39 To: a

Re: Atrium 7.6 Promote Sandbox Changes after server restart.

2009-11-30 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Is it possible that the Application Pending form has entries that are being triggered by the restart? _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of DCI Remedy Sent: 30 November 2009 20:56 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Atrium 7.6

Re: CI Viewer: How to open AST form rather than Class form

2009-09-07 Thread P Romain ARSlist
BTW, I only tried this on CMDB 2.1 Patch 1. Maybe it was a bug that prevented my tests working. Let me know if you try this and get it to work on your Patch 5 system. Cheers Peter _ From: P Romain ARSlist [mailto:p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk] Sent: 07 September

Re: CI Viewer: How to open AST form rather than Class form

2009-09-07 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Hi Leonard, I've played around a little in this area but didn't manage to get the result I wanted before needing to move to other things but maybe you can crack it. Try editing the default config.xml file for the CI Viewer entry in the Data Visualization Definition form. Add a new line

Re: Filter Guide Loop within a Loop

2009-07-29 Thread P Romain ARSlist
If I remember right you needed to set temp fields to the values of the columns you wanted to push and push the temp fields instead. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng Sent: 29 July 2009 07:43 To: a

Re: Empty personal sandbox

2009-07-01 Thread P Romain ARSlist
In Patch 1 only admin users could copy CIs to the sandbox. I noticed that this was fixed in Patch 2 but that after accepting the dialog box that asks if you want the CI to appear in a new view the view is opened but the CI doesn't appear. If this is what you are seeing then it seems like a bug th

Re: New 7.5 Flight Deck

2009-06-29 Thread P Romain ARSlist
XP Pro _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Howard Richter Sent: 29 June 2009 20:01 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: New 7.5 Flight Deck ** Peter, What was the host o/s? On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Peter R

Re: How to export data (PROCESSES) from BMC Remedy User tool

2009-06-26 Thread P Romain ARSlist
The same issue occurred with AIE and Recon jobs. In 7.5 this is eased by the new incarnation of the Import Tool which can use any field as a key field (such as instanceid for recon jobs). -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.or

Re: CMDB Performance - Updating Row Level Security

2009-03-31 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Thanks Ramy, I have checked all the logs and have run filter, api and sql logs many times. There is no loop, just the issue with the second CMDB filter trying to update the child CI. I have copied a small part of a filter log below to show the issue more clearly. Cheers Peter

Re: Flashboard License Clarification

2009-03-26 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Tina, If you restart your web server then the count resets. After that, if anyone opens a form with a flashboard on it then as the flashboard displays the flashboard count will increment. When 5 flashboards have been displayed then an attempt to view a 6th will give the message you see.

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread P Romain ARSlist
BMC FD/TD Discovery creates an IP Endpoint class for the IP and a LAN Endpoint CI for the MAC address and relates these together (dependency where the MAC is the parent if I remember right). It relates these two CIs to the computer system using the hosted access point class. If you want to pull

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Hi Louise, At one customer I added an IP attribute to computer system because they also weren't interested in doing anything with this data except store it. At other customers we've used the IP Endpoint class primarily because that's where BMC Discovery puts this data. Different IPs were di

Re: CMDB 2.1 console still available with 7.5

2009-03-09 Thread P Romain ARSlist
There are menus selections to access the legacy CMDB and recon consoles in the ITSM 7.5 Application Administration Console so I would hope that BMC supports them!! _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: 0

Re: Eval license - sort of a rant

2009-03-03 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Rocky, In the meantime have you tried getting hold of the flight decks that run in VMWare? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: 03 March 2009 02:50 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Eval

Re: Reconciliation IDs

2009-01-29 Thread P Romain ARSlist
old, i just want to update whats there, if it >> doesnt >> exist in Gold then i dont want to merge the record. If you said that it >> was >> a best practise to create a Staging dataset and merge to Gold how would >> this >> be possible as the staging dataset would

Re: ITSM Issue with Sandbox Enablement

2009-01-29 Thread P Romain ARSlist
I use cmdbdriver to generate new classes so that the class guids are what I want them to be. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ben Chernys Sent: 28 January 2009 21:46 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: FW: ITSM Issue with S

Re: Merging of non-reconciled child CIs

2008-10-31 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Sorry Matt, I just got back from holiday so am not yet quite back to reality! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Worsdell Sent: 31 October 2008 10:55 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Merging of non-reconci

Re: Merging of non-reconciled child CIs

2008-10-31 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Matt, The CMDB does exactly what I think you want it to do regarding reconciliation (but not the inheriting of owenership, etc). You have presumably already set up an identification job for the computer system class and set the auto-identify off. Set up another identification job for base elemen

Re: Roles and Permissions....

2008-10-08 Thread P Romain ARSlist
http://developer.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-2657 Cheers Peter -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DTE Sent: 08 October 2008 19:44 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Roles and Permissions If anyone could p

Re: Remedy mid-tier precache XML code

2008-09-29 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Christopher, BMC confirmed what you stated today; prefetching applications is not possible from V7.1 onwards. Cheers Peter -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: 24 September 2008 23:23 To: arslist@ARS

Re: Automated Reports

2008-09-02 Thread P Romain ARSlist
If you can alter the macros then try adding the timestamp to the 'to-file' parameter, eg to-file: x:\remedy\filename$TIMESTAMP$.csv If you don't like the timestamp format you could build the path and filename in a separate field and pass it to the macro as a parameter. Then the to-file para

Re: Permissions question.....

2008-08-16 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Log into the BMC Developer Network then navigate to Resource Center -> Downloads. Type 'permission' in the Search category field and hit 'Go'. The license application referred to in other replies will be the first on the list as 'ITSM User Roles and Permissions Utility' Cheers Peter __

Re: CMDB Audited attributes

2008-07-18 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Look at the OBJSTR:AttributeDefinitions and OBJSTR:Class forms. CMDB auditing is, like all CMDB settings, driven by metadata so you should be able to determine any setting by looking at the data in the metadata forms. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Product Categorizations

2008-06-16 Thread P Romain ARSlist
The DSL only applies to software. The Foundation/Topology Discovery documentation includes a BMC best practice categorisation you might like to use as a starting point for hardware CIs. Cheers Peter _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Active Link After Submit Instead of Filter

2008-04-23 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Sounds like an ideal time to upgrade to 7.1 and use the new filter error processsing workflow. You probably don't have that option at the moment but can add this issue to your list of reasons to justify an upgrade in the future! _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Product Catalog Data importing and relating to Company

2008-04-03 Thread P Romain ARSlist
st(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P Romain ARSlist Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Catalog Data importing and relating to Company If I remember right there's a filter on the PCT:Product Catalog form that associates the reco

Re: Product Catalog Data importing and relating to Company

2008-04-02 Thread P Romain ARSlist
If I remember right there's a filter on the PCT:Product Catalog form that associates the record to the global company. Set the filter to fire on merge and all will be ok. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL P

ARS 7.1 Join Form Changed Behaviour - ITSM Customisers Beware

2008-01-17 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Hi All, A heads up on a change in join form processing between ARS 7.1 Patch 1 and ARS 7.01 Create a regular form 'A' having only the core fields. Create a join form 'B' joining 'A' to itself using the request ID field. Expose the Short Description field from the Primary form of the

Re: unable to read data from Table field more than one time

2007-11-14 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Are you using an EXTERNAL qualification for the table field? I assume you are: 1. parsing the CC field to get the first value (X) 2. putting the value in the table field external qualification 3. calling the guide which walks the table getting the values for appending to the mailing-list 4. parsin

Re: ARS v7 Audit Form - Using Audit on fields, but too many values are appearing in Audit record

2007-10-25 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Hi Susan, It's workflow on your main form that I'm referring to. If this sets any of the fields that you've selected for audit then this may be causing the problem as it did for us. Cheers Peter _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Strange commit changes action behavior when using parent window and dialog

2007-07-20 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Have you tried removing the event workflow completely and simply adding a commit action after the open window action? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Baird Sent: 20 July 2007 18:46 To: arslist@ARSLIST.

Re: license upgrade

2007-07-16 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Are the servers in a server group? If so, have the floating licenses been issued with the server group name in the license information field? _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Doble Sent: 16 July 2007 01:46 To: arsli

Re: include a blank value at the top of an 'on search' menu

2007-06-17 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Could you use an sql menu? Then maybe an sql statement along the lines of (for Oracle) the following will give you what you need: select value,value from form union select 'Clear', 'a' from dual order by 2 _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAI

Re: BMC Atrium CMDB Costs?

2007-06-15 Thread P Romain ARSlist
I guess the issue BMC are facing is that Atrium has no user licences so the only 'standard' source of revenue is the application license itself. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: 15 June 2007

Re: Sandbox for ITSM 7?

2007-06-14 Thread P Romain ARSlist
In the licensing and password section of the BMC support site there is a link to request a trial license. Is this generally available or just to partners? _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gidd Sent: 14 June 2007 18:36 To:

Re: ITSM 7.0.x Patch 004

2007-05-09 Thread P Romain ARSlist
You'll have to use patch 4 if you want to install the new SRM module. You'll also patch 2 of ARServer as it has the SRM application license in its license type menu. I don't plan to trailblaze with this other than in a VMWare environment though! -Original Message- From: Action Request Sy