Re: Identify an incident that originated from SRM

2008-11-07 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the upper right-hand corner of the Incident, you should see a 'View Service Request' link on those entries that came from an SR. Of course if you've set the system parameter that generates SR's for Incident submission, they'll all have this but if you haven't, it should work for you. -O

Re: mid-tier "Service Unavailable"

2008-11-05 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We used these steps when we encountered the same problem on 7.1 patch 3: 1. Make sure you can browse localhost; if you can't, check: a. the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to make sure it has an entry with the server's IP/localhost b. under IIS Admin/web sit

Re: problems w/jakarta for mid tier on 64-bit W2003 Enterprise

2008-10-21 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
get Tomcat 5.5.25, which is now bundled with patch004 and patch005. I've used the above method several times on Windows 2003 x64 with success, but it would not work if the IIS had not been changed to 32-bit and restarted first. Good luck! Matt Reinfeldt From: Action Request Syste

problems w/jakarta for mid tier on 64-bit W2003 Enterprise

2008-10-20 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So far, we've been unable to bring the Mid Tier up using Jakarta on our new 64-bit W2003 Enterprise server. We've been working with Support for a week now, they're pointing to Jakarta as the problem. Here's what we've tried so far: - successfully loaded ARS 7.1 p002 on MS Windows Server 2003

Re: Copy Prod Environment to Dev Environment

2008-10-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One other item worth mentioning: Support is adamant that they will not officially support the database copy method. You can do it and they will still provide support, but if the underlying root cause of the problem turns out to be a direct result of the database copy, they will NOT provide a fi

SRM 2.2 - Data Initialization

2008-10-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Following several rounds of testing, we're now attempting to initialize the Service Request form and associated data before rollout. According to support, there is no means to remove the SRM test data, they're recommending a completely fresh install and re-configuration. Considering the time i

Re: Data load tool for Service Request Management 2.2

2008-09-18 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The duplicates come from known error SW00287342 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Data load tool for Service Request M

Automated Test Tools for Remedy 7

2008-09-17 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have any experience testing Remedy 7 functionality with automated test tools? Our users are tired of running manual test scripts every time we apply a new patch. We've heard that BMC uses LoadRunner for performance testing but have no clue how they test functionality. Any and all

Automated Test Tools for Remedy 7

2008-09-16 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have any experience testing Remedy 7 functionality with automated test tools? Our users are tired of running manual test scripts every time we apply a new patch. We've heard that BMC uses LoadRunner for performance testing but have no clue how they test functionality. Any and all

Automated Test Tools for Remedy 7

2008-09-16 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have any experience testing Remedy 7 functionality with automated test tools? Our users are tired of running manual test scripts every time we apply a new patch. We've heard that BMC uses LoadRunner for performance testing but have no clue how they test functionality. Any and all

Re: SRM auto-assign

2008-09-02 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
report back. Drew Tulsa, OK On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let me know what you find, we don't want to assign SR's to individuals but > rather to the group; according to Support, it's not possible as designed. >

Re: SRM auto-assign

2008-09-02 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me know what you find, we don't want to assign SR's to individuals but rather to the group; according to Support, it's not possible as designed. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Friday, A

Re: Remedy Alert

2008-09-02 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's a whitepaper that shows port configurations for Alert, let me know if you need a copy. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon-Michal Mamon-Meged Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:59 AM To: arslist@AR

Re: SRM auto-assign

2008-08-29 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assuming the group you're trying to assign to has members, do those members have the Service Request User permission group at a minimum? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Friday, August 29, 20

Re: ARWARN [66] the query matched more than the maximum number of entries specified for retrieval

2008-08-11 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
inal Message- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:42 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: ARWARN [66] the query matched more than the maximum number of >

Re: ARWARN [66] the query matched more than the maximum number of entries specified for retrieval

2008-08-11 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe this is a known bug. Support pointed us to SW00298917 "Push Field in Filter generates ARWARN [66] if option "Modify First Matching Request" is chosen", details are below. They told us it would be fixed in 7.5 but we pushed for a patch/hotfix to 7.1 since it's still a supported versio

Re: BMC Service Request Management

2008-07-01 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
template? I haven't found that in the documentation yet. The sample data Task Templates look pretty hairy. Drew On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We've had SRM 2.1 p001 fully configured in dev and test for months now, we > are scheduled to move to prod in Septe

Re: BMC Service Request Management

2008-07-01 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We've had SRM 2.1 p001 fully configured in dev and test for months now, we are scheduled to move to prod in September after final UAT and training. Suffice it say, SRM requires a fair amount of configuration, too much to cover in an ARList response. Let me know if you have any specific questio

Re: I'm almost there....

2008-06-19 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is what we used when installing SLM 7.1: Set server System Variable BMC_SLM_JAVA_HOME to folder (e.g. c:\Program Files\java\jre1.5.0_12) (My Computer > Properties > Adv tab > Environment Variables) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMA

Re: Menu Missing - 7.1 ARSysmtem

2008-05-20 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:27 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Menu Missing - 7.1 ARSysmtem We have the menu (see attached), I believe it's from SRM 2.1 p001. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion lis

Re: Menu Missing - 7.1 ARSysmtem

2008-05-20 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have the menu (see attached), I believe it's from SRM 2.1 p001. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pam Hollis Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:51 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Menu Missing - 7.1 ARSysmtem

Re: BMC Support RFE Document

2008-04-22 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although rumors of said document persist, we have not yet been told to use it (our last submission was 4/15). But if it's unavoidable, why not at least provide an automated form to collect the information? And perhaps a 'voting' mechanism so that others could champion their favorites? Persona

Re: ITSM 7 Reports - list of these available?

2008-02-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
these available? Donald - mind if I ask where you got this? I have been looking for something like this for quite some time. Thanks! Ty On 2/8/08, Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't say how current this is, but it should be a good starting p

Re: IM installation error - Urgent help Please!

2008-02-07 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We had a similar problem loading SRM 2.1 and support said it was a bug. The workaround was to modify the corresponding entry in SHARE:Application_Properties, that's what the installer checks. But I would be very cautious given that the versioning is quite specific. -Original Message- From

Re: Service Request Management -Anybody using it?

2008-01-24 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We're in the process of acquiring/building SRM 2.1 and so far, it's been working pretty much as expected. A few bugs here and there and some questions about functional design. Also, it's a bit cumbersome to configure but that's because there's a lot of flexibility in the tool that you may or may

Re: Tomcat Config GUI

2008-01-23 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is the path for ours, we're on 7.1 though. "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\bin\tomcat5w.exe" //ES//Tomcat5 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2

Re: SRM 2.1 and various bugs

2008-01-18 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
indeed show that locales are the problem. I think there are 2 new filters and modification to the SRM:AppInstanceBridge form. I can send you the def fix if you want. On Jan 17, 3:52=A0pm, "Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have SRM 2.1 installed in d

Re: SMPM

2008-01-17 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out all the details on the BMC web site, the product is: Service Management Process Model. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sugavanam K K Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Su

Re: SRM 2.1 and various bugs

2008-01-17 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have SRM 2.1 installed in dev and noticed that fields stopped passing to the Work Orders. Oddly enough, we may have stumbled on an answer this morning - locales. We created duplicate AOT/PDT/SRD using one locale and the fields pushed again. We haven't taken it all the way through yet, but sus

Re: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/IIS and SSL Ahseemud on my faceyou said CI Viewer (CMDB thing right?) and I read CR ViewerLOLmy bad...sorry for any confusion I caused -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL Thanks for the reply! Although we do intend to add SSL to the report server

Re: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL ** After enabling an SSL cert on our 7.1 mid tier, everything seems to be

Re: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chnologies _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: 7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL After enabling an SSL cert on our 7.1 mid tier, everyt

7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-09 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After enabling an SSL cert on our 7.1 mid tier, everything seems to be OK under https except for the CI Viewer - it runs but gives the annoying message 'This page contains both secure and non-secure items...'. Changing the 'Display mixed content' setting in IE from 'Prompt' to 'Enable' seems to be

7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-07 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After enabling an SSL cert on our 7.1 mid tier, everything seems to be OK under https except for the CI Viewer - it runs but gives the annoying message 'This page contains both secure and non-secure items...'. Changing the 'Display mixed content' setting in IE from 'Prompt' to 'Enable' seems to

7.1 mid tier w/IIS and SSL

2008-01-07 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After enabling an SSL cert on our 7.1 mid tier, everything seems to be OK under https except for the CI Viewer - it runs but gives the annoying message 'This page contains both secure and non-secure items...'. Changing the 'Display mixed content' setting in IE from 'Prompt' to 'Enable' seems to be

7.x Notification Groups?

2007-12-14 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Listers: Has anyone found a way to enable non-support groups within the ITSM 7 application? We use Remedy 5 notification groups for SLA notifications and contract reminders but 7.x doesn't seem to allow for the same functionality. Suggestions? Thanks for reading. __

Re: CMDB 2.1.0.001

2007-12-05 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to Support, the patch is still in restricted release. I'm awaiting their explanation as to why they would send out a notification for a patch that has not yet been released. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: SLM - Pay to upgrade from SLA - Anybody fight this and win?

2007-10-31 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jack: We were in the same position earlier this year but lost the battle. As our sales rep explained it, they discontinued the older product (SLA 6.0) and were no longer going to upgrade or support it. To appease our complaining, they offered us the new product (SLM 7.0) at zero cost - we just h

Looking for advice on DSL and 7.x Product Categorizations

2007-10-12 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Listers: It would seem that in loading the DSL data, we're forced to use the associated out-of-the-box Product Categorizations of 'Software/Application/Third Party' and 'Software/Operating System/Third Party'. Since Product is not available when configuring Assignment rules, such broad categoriza

Re: Incident & Problem...Separate Purchases?

2007-09-27 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instead of a simple Summary menu, the SRM provides a full blown service catalog including descriptive information such as cost and turnaround times. The entitlement feature allows you to limit which customers can select which services. And you can build processes that generate many back end entri

Re: Incident & Problem...Separate Purchases?

2007-09-26 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'Yes' on all accounts and Requester Console provides a simple 'Summary' menu from which requesters can select services whereas SRMS provides an entitlement based service catalog. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: CI Type for Mobile Devices

2007-09-25 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We chose CI Type = 'Equipment' with categories of Equipment/Communication Device/PDA etc... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sabrina Ethridge Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subj

Re: 7.1 available today? (some more questions regarding licenses) (UNCLASSIFIED)

2007-09-06 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
n list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:58 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.1 available today? (some more questions regarding licenses) (UNCLASSIFIED) Hi Scott: Here's the installation script we used for buil

Re: 7.1 available today? (some more questions regarding licenses) (UNCLASSIFIED)

2007-09-06 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Scott: Here's the installation script we used for building a new server and applying ITSM patch 005, our error logs were clean afterwards. Hopefully it will be of some help to you: 1. install AR Server 7.0.1 patch 003 2. install 7.0.1 patch 003 clients as desired (User Tool, Admin To

Re: SRMS 2.0 install problem

2007-08-21 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SRMS 2.0 install problem yes but in a different way. After applying ITSM patch 4 and attempting to install SRMS i recieved error notice explaining that the correct patch was not installed. after modifying SHARE: Application_Properti

SRMS 2.0 install problem

2007-08-21 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone successfully loaded SRMS 2.0 on ARS 7.0.1p3 and ITSMp5? Our current system is configured as follows: ARS 7.0.1 patch 003 (including Approval and Assignment) CMDB 2.0.1 patch 003 ITSM Suite 7.0.2 patch 005 (AM, CM, SD) SLM 7.0.2 patch 004 DSL patches 1516 and 004 SRMS 2.0 Compatibility

Re: How to install a second instance?

2007-07-30 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question - will the second instance be able to use portmapper? It was my understanding that unique ports had to be manually assigned to separate the instances. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Sunday

Re: RUG shirts

2007-07-23 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If memory serves: 96 - tab w/blue &/or orange logo 97 - Forest Green/Maroon logo on white And in the closet I still have: 98 - Denim w/green logo 99 - black bowling w/yellow logo -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

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2007-07-17 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if the out-of-the-box functionality for Asset Mgmt 7.x includes the ability to expose depreciation fields on the Financials tab of any and all CMDB classes? They are only available on a handful of classes by default: Document Equipment Application System Application Infrastruc

Remedy 7 Password Functionality

2007-06-26 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone heard if a future release of Remedy 7 might include improved password capabilities? We're looking to enforce standards such as password length, special characters, etc... I seem to remember having read about it on the now defunct 'What's New' section of the support web site but can't f

Re: Tenancy mode

2007-06-25 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One more thing to keep in mind - when establishing companies in multi-tenancy mode, information associated with a particular company is only visible to members of that company unless their account has 'unrestricted' access to all companies. For example, if you create a Product Categorization for a

Re: BMC Rant

2007-06-12 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately, I have nothing more to add but to join with the consensus here. We're having similar support experiences: - knowledgebase no longer usable - communication barriers with overseas support - initial ticket responses that do little more than satisfy the SLA - requests for log files that

Re: Searching for CI's to relate to inc/prb/chg/ast

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssume you will s= ee this in the future. -Original Message- From: Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:23 am Subject: Searching for CI's to relate to inc/prb/chg/ast **=20 I=E2=80=99m wondering if anyone has noticed tha

Searching for CI's to relate to inc/prb/chg/ast

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm wondering if anyone has noticed that searching for CI's to relate is more user friendly under the 7.x Incident, Change, and Problem modules than it is under the Asset module itself. From the Relationship tab of an incident, problem, or change, one need only select Request Type = Configuration

Searching for CI's to relate to inc/prb/chg/ast

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm wondering if anyone has noticed that searching for CI's to relate is more user friendly under the 7.x Incident, Change, and Problem modules than it is under the Asset module itself. From the Relationship tab of an incident, problem, or change, one need only select Request Type = Configuration

Re: CMDB: cmdb2asset utility for CMDB version 2...

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
me as the older version where this had to be run from the command line? Or is it different from the older version (more bells and whistles) in any way? Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CMDB: cmdb2asset utility for CMDB version 2...

2007-06-06 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joe: I'm just back from CMDB training so forgive the freshman response - I believe the functionality of the utility has been replaced with a new field on the SHR:SchemaNames form. Find the form's entry, change the value of "Has Asset UI" to Yes, and then save it. It's rumored to take some time t

Re: Crystal Error

2007-05-22 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have a similar Crystal problem, albeit with a different underlying error message. While running ARS 7.0.1 patch 002 User Tool, attempting to execute a Crystal XI rpt via active link - we receive "An error occurred while generating the Crystal report: 0x80043ac3 - File not found. Details: error