Re: ARSlist Future

2016-06-02 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi Dan, This is sad news for me, but I suppose it was inevitable with the way current market trends are going. Thanks for all these years of keeping the list up! The ARSList was a life saver for me on a good number of occasions over the years and I've met some good folks here. Best Re

Re: AR System Email Mailbox Configuration

2015-12-11 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi Anonymous, This might be a browser cache issue - open the form in Mid-Tier and press Ctrl+F5 to force the browser to get a fresh copy of the form from the server instead of using it's cache on your PC to display the form. Best Regards, Theo -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: direct URL in ITSM 8.X

2015-05-22 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Dan, Sandra, This may or may not be useful at this point, but you can use the URL encoder to find out what the correct string is to use to embed in your URL for your form: https:// midtierserver.my.domain:8443/arsys/shared/ar_url_encoder.jsp Best Regards, Theo -Original Message- F

Re: Requirements Doc

2015-03-13 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi LJ, I had a little hardware trouble with my laptop dying on me, but the manufacturer has now repaired it under the warranty, hence my late reply. You’re welcome. I hope it helps. I never bothered to compare the new online documentation version of this to the old documentation, but

Re: The ~! for filter names

2015-03-04 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Harsh, I agree with Fred & Rick, it makes more sense to rather have it as a property rather than only as some text appended to the name, but you would need to have BMC automate keeping both conventions going to make it backward compatible with existing workflow. Best Regards, Theo

Re: OT: Setting up a demo environment on LINUX..

2015-02-05 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Joe, Because most of the companies I work with, that uses Linux, use RedHat, I initially chose RedHat for my demo/testing VM. When I found out that RedHat is only "free" for a limited time (about 30 days if memory serves me correctly), and that you will need to buy a license to get further O

Re: Upgrading from 7.6.04 SP4 to 8.1 - Folder only has 0 MB of Free Disk Space

2014-12-23 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Lisa, It sounds to me like someone has set file system quotas on your server. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365228(v=vs.85).aspx. HTH. Best Regards, Theo From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Beha

Re: Help with upgrade path

2014-12-19 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
op of it, to to 8.1 or 7.6. We would leave the ITSM portion as is for now. Are you saying to do this we need to install every version of ARS until we get to 8.1 On Monday, December 15, 2014 2:11 PM, Theo Fondse (GMail) mailto:theo.fon...@gmail.com> > wrote: ** Hi Carina, We

Re: Help with upgrade path

2014-12-15 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Carina, We upgraded our "Custom-Only" 7.1/10g/Slolaris server recently to 7.6.4/11g/RedHat. I always suggest NOT to skip a major version when doing an upgrade, due to the fact that BMC only supports the last 3 versions, and therefore, might not test their software during development for upg

Re: dde.ini and slow start of Excel 2013

2014-11-03 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Misi! Personally, I haven't used DDE.ini in years, but you could try something like this: Command1=[App.Minimize()] Command2=[NEW("G:\ABC\ARS-files\rek.xlt")] Command3=[PASTE()] Command4=[CLOSE(1)] Command5=[App.Maximize()] HTH. Best Regards, Theo -Original Message- From: Action Re

Re: Server side filter log not getting captured!

2014-09-30 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Hi Ayushi, Please post the output from the following commands in your putty session: ps -ef | grep arserverd uname -a df -h Best Regards, Theo -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: 29

Re: RESOLVED: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-09-12 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Thanks for the suggestion! Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Theo Fondse (GMail) Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG <mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Re: E-mail engine not getti

Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-09-03 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
Rick, We were also running 7.1 on RHEL up until a couple of weeks ago, and also had to deal with reliability issues with the Remedy Email Engine stopping to process mail without any warning or without inscriptions in the debug log that points to any real issues or leads to what the issue mig

Re: Remedy 6.3 and Solaris x86?

2014-08-26 Thread Theo Fondse (GMail)
LJ, Is it possible that you are thinking of the old “Flat-file DB” option we had in versions prior to 4..x (if my memory serves me correctly)? As far as I am aware, we never had Slolaris x86 support for AR Server. I tried forcing the install on a x86 Slolaris dev VM about 2 or 3 year

Re: Transactional (TR) and Database (DB)

2014-05-11 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
James, This is to allow you to, for a specific field, 1) Determine programmatically if a (user or automated) transaction has attempted to change the field value or not . OR - 2) Compare what the value used to be, just before the current transaction attempted to change it, as opp

Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy

2014-04-21 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Thanks William! You could also run the following: select License_Type, Key from AR_System_Licenses where License_Type ='AR Server' Best Regards, Theo -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Se

Re: ITSM on a Laptop Question

2014-04-09 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi James, This is possible indeed. I have done this many times in the past for my previous company (another BMC Partner) in order to do development and demo's on ITSM etc. The catch here is that you are guaranteed to have BAD performance of an ITSM VM if you only have 8GB RAM or less. If you use

Re: Significance of Development cache mode

2014-03-27 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi Prathap , Development Cache Mode also makes things slow when multiple developers use the same server to do development. We have had to change our development server to switch off Development Cache Mode to get things to run smoothly. Development Cache Mode improves performance only if a singl

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-19 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi LJ, It used to be like that, up to ~v5.x or so, but AFAIK, the issue you mentioned has been fixed. The problem used to be that ARSystem validates the server license against what it deemed the Host ID to be and the Host ID was linked to the MAC of the first NIC. The AR System server woul

Re: Opinions on COBIT

2013-11-26 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi Rick! You are right about the comparison between ITIL and COBIT, but COBIT, like ITIL, is a framework, not a solution to the problem. Back when the dinosaurs were still roaming the earth, I once did COBIT 4.1 foundation and found that it had some merit, and a couple of good things to go and im

Re: How to determine when a user last logged in

2013-10-28 Thread Theo Fondse (Gmail)
Hi Tony, This is easy if you create a simple data form and an active link that gets attached to all your active forms used by your users on Window open. I have created such a form for the same reason and it works well. You can use archiving to clear old data from this form. Also make s