Re: BMC Software has Rebranded

2014-10-07 Thread William Rentfrow
You'd think by now they'd use the arslist as a sounding board at least once... Also, I'll add this criticism: The drink on the table in the picture (yes I know, not the logo) is blue and looks like Kool-aid...probably not the image you want to project. William Rentfrow wrentf

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-25 Thread William Rentfrow
time the defense might want to toss anyone with any special knowledge in the IT realm. Gotta run, apparently my cell is on the default ring tone William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list

SSO with ARS 8.0+ and NOT Tomcat?

2014-09-24 Thread William Rentfrow
Hi - A co-worker of mine asked me to post this - has anyone gotten SSO to work with ARS 8.0 or higher using something other than Tomcat? We are using Websphere and running into some hurdles - any direction you can give us would be appreciated. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-23 Thread William Rentfrow
HP is also suing Service Now over patent infringement. I won't bother linking it here- just Google it. They sued in February for similar things. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-23 Thread William Rentfrow
..and that's the literal definition of prior art! William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Tuesday, September

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-23 Thread William Rentfrow
Keep in mind the US patent office gave a patent to a guy for a method of swinging sideways, which was invented by his daughter (and every kid who ever sat on a swing): http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227 William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25

Re: BOXI error

2014-09-19 Thread William Rentfrow
BOXI 11.5. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brukeste G Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 5:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BOXI error ** What version of boxi On Sep 18, 2014, at 2:31 PM, William Rentfrow wrentf

Re: OT: Friday Humor

2014-09-19 Thread William Rentfrow
I think it's only fair to give the HD techs fair warning about what they are getting into. Plus it could serve as a great motivator: Robinson, if you're late one more time you're getting all of the angry, panicked, and confused cases for a WEEK! From: Action Request System discussion

BOXI error

2014-09-18 Thread William Rentfrow
data, formats report with AR Web Report Viewer 5. BOXI send format back to MT for display. Thanks in advance...I can't find anything about this error related to Remedy anywhere. William Rentfrow Failed to process the request!! An error occurred at the server : Failed to commit objects

Re: High Availability ITSM (7.6.4 or greater)

2014-09-10 Thread William Rentfrow
Hi Howard (long time no see!) - We've never been able to make this work. With 4000+ users, and typically 1,000 of them on at any time this has always been an issue. Typically the first install we have to have all of the servers down and we do the install on the admin server of our server

Re: Escalation qualification : DSO

2014-09-09 Thread William Rentfrow
I'm not sure what sort of problem you are having at the DB level, but have you tried putting this escalation into its own escalation pool? I'd give that a try and change it to run every 24 hours instead of every 30 minutes. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

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

2014-08-28 Thread William Rentfrow
I've seen this in Linux from time to time as well. It's not really frequent but it does happen. We're on SuSe linux running 7.6.04 sp 5. Another environment is on SuSe with 8.1 - and it's happened to both. There's not a great way to test it honestly, since when it dies this way it doesn't

Re: ARS 8.1.01 Server Group Install

2014-08-27 Thread William Rentfrow
That's what we do. You did leave a couple of things out, but I assume you are doing these. I'm mentioning them just in case that's not true... For #2 - when you say remove it from the server group, I assume you're un-checking the server group member box AND changing the server name back to

Re: 8.1.01 Change Approval Performance Issues

2014-08-22 Thread William Rentfrow
I don't know why BMC would EVER say that you shouldn't have more than 1000 CI's for one change. What happens in any large company when they issue a Microsoft patch for their desktops? I know for our customers there could easily be many thousands of things connected. That said, quality time

Java plugin server/armonitor pathing

2014-08-21 Thread William Rentfrow
is coming from? Thanks - William Rentfrow ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: Java plugin server/armonitor pathing

2014-08-21 Thread William Rentfrow
the end...that shouldn't hurt anything, but it doesn't need to be there either :) On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:31 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** Hi listers - I've been working on a vanilla 8.1 install as I've had time for a sandbox I can

Re: Java plugin server/armonitor pathing

2014-08-21 Thread William Rentfrow
like Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx), it'll tell you the full command line of the armonitor that's in memory after start... On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:57 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** LJ

Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread William Rentfrow
There's one other thing that can be really vexing when dealing with this problem. Let's decide you go multi-threaded. You put your escalation that needs to run every minute on a new pool (thread) of #4. You set some of the others to 1, 2, and 3. But...if you leave ANY of the escalations

Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread William Rentfrow
that doesn't have a pool defined runs in pool 1 (legacy style)do you have a workable example of a non-pooled escalation jumping to a pool other than 1? On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:46 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** There's one other thing

Re: CMDB Question - Application vs Software

2014-08-15 Thread William Rentfrow
The main customer I work with is similar. Remedy for their IT Organization is Remedy IT and it is an application. The application is composed of software (BMC Remedy, web servers, Oracle, etc), hardware, load balancers (sort of software and hardware combined), and a few other things. So when

Re: Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-13 Thread William Rentfrow
7 and Tomcat 6 (the one that ships with AR Server 8.1.x). I'm trying to work with BMC support on it now and will let you know if we get it working. Thanks, Jon On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:37 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** So strangely

Re: Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-11 Thread William Rentfrow
Source From: William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 3:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RE: Tomcat with IIS I tried this multiple times and it wouldn't work. Then I un-installed it and noticed it never removed the Apache Tomcat directory. So I renamed that directory, reinstalled

Re: Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-08 Thread William Rentfrow
@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Tomcat with IIS ** Are your heap. Parameters set correctly? Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: William Rentfrow Date:08/07/2014 17:54 (GMT-05:00) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re

Re: Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-08 Thread William Rentfrow
Tomcat can use them. Having IIS on the server doesn't mean you have to use it and doesn't mean you can't still IIS for other traffic then you main MT activity. Jason On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:12 PM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** Well, I

Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-07 Thread William Rentfrow
Hi all - I have a dumb problem. I can't get Tomcat to work with IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2. This is with a completely vanilla install of Remedy ARS 8.1 using SQL server. The install went fine, there was no problem I could see. I've uninstalled and re-installed the mid-tier several times.

Re: Tomcat with IIS

2014-08-07 Thread William Rentfrow
on port 8080? If Tomcat is listening on that port just http://localhost:8080 should bring up a Tomcat home page Check the Tomcat server.xml to see what Tomcat is configured for. Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William

Re: ARERR 45281 not allowing to create a task from incident.

2014-07-18 Thread William Rentfrow
Well...from the screenshot the user is in Search mode, not Create mode. Are they actually trying to do a search? Or create an incident? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ersureshbe Sent: Friday, July 18,

Re: Maxed out List and Fast threads query

2014-07-16 Thread William Rentfrow
This is more of an art than a science, but there's certain science-y parts about it. In the Remedy Admin console, go to the Server Admin page, and add up your total threads under the Max column for fast threads. Repeat for list. Keep these numbers handy. Also, it's worth noting that your

Re: Slightly OT: Connecting SQL*Plus client to an Oracle Database..

2014-07-09 Thread William Rentfrow
I've seen two different times where the tnsnames.ora file had some type of invisible control character in it and the file would not work. We'd re-type it and try again and it worked - even though the files would be identical to visual inspection and were checked by multiple people. If you're

Re: ITSM upgrade 7.6.04

2014-07-03 Thread William Rentfrow
This is totally doable, provided you take care (as it seems you have) to make sure all of the patch levels you install on the new server will get installed on the server you are cutting over from prior to the switch. The root vs non-root part isn't a big deal for the most part. Non-root

Re: Reconciliation speed

2014-06-24 Thread William Rentfrow
- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 3:05 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Reconciliation speed This is a merge job which is running ADDM data into BMC Asset. We haven't customized

Reconciliation speed

2014-06-23 Thread William Rentfrow
long to go through a recon job. This is with dedicated servers and having gone through many (all?) of BMC's performance tuning papers we're still not able to get much faster than that. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056

Re: Reconciliation speed

2014-06-23 Thread William Rentfrow
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Re: Reconciliation speed

2014-06-23 Thread William Rentfrow
.  News about those will come as the capabilities are added to the system. I hope this information is useful, Doug Mueller From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 9:43 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Reconciliation speed

2014-06-23 Thread William Rentfrow
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Reconciliation speed ***Re-sending as plain text since someone told me the message came across funny

Re: Finding all filters and Escalations that contain a web service set fields

2014-06-13 Thread William Rentfrow
Perhaps you're solving the wrong problem. A web service - from the HTTP server side - is just a http/https call. If they are changing their endpoint, I think they should be able to put in a re-direct. I've never actually tested this, but it makes sense with what I know of web servers. For

Re: John Atherly passed away

2014-06-04 Thread William Rentfrow
I'm very sorry to hear this - I lost a co-worker almost exactly 4 years ago due to another accident. That's still way too fresh for me... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Christopher Pruitt Sent: Tuesday,

Re: ARERR 623 Authentication Failed Error

2014-05-21 Thread William Rentfrow
Whoever is in charge of your load balancer should be able to trace the client IP where the error is happening and all of it's traffic through the load balancer to each server it is sending traffic to. Most of the time the sticky setting on the load balancer is not set to match the timeout

What exactly is CMDB in the SGOR form?

2014-05-16 Thread William Rentfrow
jobs or normalization. It's no the AI nor is it the AIE. It's not the CMDB plugins etc, because those are server specific. I literally have no idea what this thing is. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056

Re: Transactional (TR) and Database (DB)

2014-05-11 Thread William Rentfrow
I think there's a few reasons. First, using TR. is redundant. Every value in a filter (unless it already has DB. in front of it) is by it's nature a transactional value. There's literally almost no reason to use, it, EXCEPT that it makes the code a bit more clear from a visual standpoint if

Re: ARERR 90: server.dummy.host.com

2014-05-09 Thread William Rentfrow
I get a ton of matches as well. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:51 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARERR 90: server.dummy.host.com It is because

Re: Fast v.s. List Threads

2014-04-29 Thread William Rentfrow
This is straight out of the ARS configuration guide: Fast queue The fast queue handles the operations that generally run to completion quickly without blocking access to the database. The fast queue handles all server operations, except for: „ Administrative operations that restructure the

Change phase

2014-04-25 Thread William Rentfrow
there. We have one last hurdle - one my co-workers is running down the workflow, but just in case anyone knows the easy answer - in the process flow nav bar what data controls what is displayed? We need that to show Closed instead of Implement. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office

Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy

2014-04-20 Thread William Rentfrow
What version of ARS are we talking about? Anything 7.1 and higher stores it in the database, specifically in the AR System Licenses form. If your server is unusable you can get it directly out of the database by doing this: select schemaid from arschema where name='AR System Licenses';

Re: 2 Remedy Installation using same database

2014-04-17 Thread William Rentfrow
Check to make sure the permissions on armonitor.conf are correct. Also, in the /install dir/ar/bin directory check the file arsystem for the location for armonitor. This line will show you where it is looking for the file in Unix. ARMON_DIR=/etc/arsystem/${AR_SERVER_ID} From: Action Request

Asset Console query, related issues

2014-04-09 Thread William Rentfrow
the app is querying all of BMC Computer System besides the Asset Console? Also, this is a known problem with BMC. See below: article KA314201 https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=contentid=KA314201actp=searchviewlocale=en_USsearchid=1396926399792 William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com

Re: Change Approvals not working properly...

2014-04-03 Thread William Rentfrow
You also should check and see if your server threads are overloaded for the thread the approval server is using. We had problems with the approval server and then moved it to a private queue and that helped a lot. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

AE gone haywire (long, my apologies)

2014-04-01 Thread William Rentfrow
, and it stopped. We've turned on AE logging but so far there's nothing in it - this sort of confirms my SWAG above. Ideas? I really have no direct proof it was the AE - but there are no escalations affecting assignment and I don't know of any other processes that do. William Rentfrow wrentf

Re: How to enable full remedy admin from server grouping.

2014-03-30 Thread William Rentfrow
I'll add one thing - this is our best practices method for restarting the server group at one of our customers. If we do make a change to the Server Group Operation Ranking form we... 1.) Make the change 2.) Shut down all the servers 3.) Restart the admin server and let it come up completely

OT: RE: $NULL$ = $NULL$?

2014-03-21 Thread William Rentfrow
Since it's Friday Does $NULL$ REALLY equal $NULL$? If null really means the complete absence of any discernable measurable value or any traits whatsoever, can we really compare two NULLS to each other? There is nothing to compare. Take that one to happy hour with you... -Original

Re: Weird behavior of Mid Tiers

2014-03-21 Thread William Rentfrow
Not sure what web/http server you are using but did someone mess with the redirects? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sweety Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Weird behavior of Mid Tiers

2014-03-21 Thread William Rentfrow
Actually, to expand on that last email which I sent far too quickly - I think this would be fairly easy to determine if you install Fiddler. Fiddler will show you all of the http queries and traffic, redirects, etc. Run a log where it works and then compare that to a log in the environment

Re: Server group

2014-03-19 Thread William Rentfrow
The server group field is actually deprecated. It is no longer used as of 7.6.03. So it doesn't really matter. All the server group uses to look at the server group is the Server Group Member checkbox and the Server alias. Also, you need to have all of the IP-Name entries set in the

Re: Web Service Insert error

2014-03-19 Thread William Rentfrow
:39 PM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** I had something like this happen once, and it was when something was being transferred through HPD:IncidentInterface_Create. Essentially there was a nested Set Fields and it wasn't finding a match

Re: Web Service Insert error

2014-03-18 Thread William Rentfrow
I had something like this happen once, and it was when something was being transferred through HPD:IncidentInterface_Create. Essentially there was a nested Set Fields and it wasn't finding a match. The workflow was set to set all fields to NULL instead of creating a No match error, so

Re: Server plugin alias error

2014-03-04 Thread William Rentfrow
I finally fixed this. The fix was to restart the server at the OS level. Something was stuck in memory, for lack of a better explanation. I've asked BMC if there are any known memory leaks related to the plugin server. From: William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 10:31 AM

Re: Why no phasing in Active Linsk and Escalations

2014-03-04 Thread William Rentfrow
Escalations don't need phasing. Phasing is used so data is processed in the correct way. First you do your set fields lookups and calculations. Second you process other actions - and then you finally save the data, more or less. Probably 95% of the escalations that are OOB run against a

Server plugin alias error

2014-02-28 Thread William Rentfrow
okay with this problem. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: Server plugin alias error

2014-02-28 Thread William Rentfrow
been wrong before. From: William Rentfrow Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 10:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Server plugin alias error Happy Friday arslisters - I have a weird problem. We are building out some new servers to add to a server group - the load balancer name (changed to CAT1

Re: Windows 7 w/ Dev 8

2014-02-11 Thread William Rentfrow
I think you need to go into your Dev Studio directory and update the devstudio.ini file - change this line to point to the correct java location: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_37\bin\javaw.exe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

ARS 8.1 with 7.6.04 apps?

2014-02-10 Thread William Rentfrow
Is anyone running Linux ARS 8.1 with 7.6.04 version of -ITSM -SRM -SLM -RKM William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives

Re: Target Attack and BMC Software ITSM?

2014-01-30 Thread William Rentfrow
Wait - so you're not supposed to use Demo after you install? ;) This does give me enough reason to go back and double check to made sure those are turned off in all the environments. You can never be too careful. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Target Attack and BMC Software ITSM?

2014-01-30 Thread William Rentfrow
the default? Dave -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Target Attack and BMC Software ITSM? Wait - so you're not supposed

Re: Target Attack and BMC Software ITSM?

2014-01-30 Thread William Rentfrow
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Target Attack and BMC Software ITSM? Wait - so you're not supposed to use Demo after you install? ;) This does give me enough reason to go

Configuration file extenstions (Linux)

2014-01-29 Thread William Rentfrow
for the app - does anyone know of any more? * .xml * .conf * .cfg * .properties * .sh (all of the startup stuff) Thanks in advance... William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056

Re: Configuration file extenstions (Linux)

2014-01-29 Thread William Rentfrow
as the home directory of the login that you run the ARS server as. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Configuration

Adding servers to the server group

2013-12-10 Thread William Rentfrow
- the only real reason to do this is to disable escalations and admin functions, as well as making them aware that they are not the top dog in the SG. 5.)Modify the ar.conf for all of servers and adding the IP-Name entries that are appropriate William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office

Re: Adding servers to the server group

2013-12-10 Thread William Rentfrow
query the tables. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:41 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** So we currently have 6 AR servers in a server group - I'm adding some more. Two of the new servers will be solely to support reporting. I'm sort of mulling

Re: Adding servers to the server group

2013-12-10 Thread William Rentfrow
these lines... Just some simple WHAT IF thinking. Doug Mueller From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Adding servers to the server group ** So we

Re: Adding servers to the server group

2013-12-10 Thread William Rentfrow
these excluded from failover support. They are part of the server group however and get all the benefits that entails. I hope this has cleared up any confusion, Doug Mueller From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday

Server = crushed, not sure why

2013-09-20 Thread William Rentfrow
coffee yet, but so far I have no clever ideas why this is happening... William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org

Re: Server = crushed, not sure why

2013-09-20 Thread William Rentfrow
. Check escalations too (if you have them running on your admin box) Tauf Chowdhury On Sep 20, 2013, at 7:42 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** Hi all - SuSe Linux 7.6.04 ARS - running in a server group. For the last week or so after

Re: Server = crushed, not sure why

2013-09-20 Thread William Rentfrow
if the logs are showing anything or filling up with errors. Check escalations too (if you have them running on your admin box) Tauf Chowdhury On Sep 20, 2013, at 7:42 AM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** Hi all - SuSe Linux 7.6.04 ARS - running

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-09 Thread William Rentfrow
the ones with no pool to be in the 1st pool (unless there is a reason you want them to access any pool) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:36 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How

How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-05 Thread William Rentfrow
sharing but that's another issue altogether). So - how many pools do you use? We currently have a max of 4 and obviously that's not enough. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056

Re: How many escalation pools do you have...?

2013-09-05 Thread William Rentfrow
] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 5:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: How many escalation pools do you have...? ** Hi listers - So we have an infrequent but recurring problem. One of our mission-critical escalations (interval, 5 minutes) will every once in a while die

Re: What are Drop Shadows in Panel/ Panel Holders?

2013-08-30 Thread William Rentfrow
Not to be confused with an Australian drop bear From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: What are Drop Shadows in Panel/ Panel Holders? ** A drop

Re: Preventing a user from closing a dialog box on the web ....

2013-06-20 Thread William Rentfrow
We've done a variation of that, where the field maps back to the form only when they did actually save (and not cancel or X out) - if they field is blank we pop an error message and conveniently re-open the form for them. Relentlessly :) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: 6.3 upgrade options?

2013-06-07 Thread William Rentfrow
There's been at least twice where I've seen instances where a mis-matched client and AR server version caused crashes. Usually it was the server that crashed though due to an out-of-date API call being made from the client. I would try to get everything versioned as closely as possible. From:

Re: how to identify FTS-indexed fields from the DB?

2013-05-28 Thread William Rentfrow
I spent far, FAR too much time working on getting FTS to work in 7.6.03 - and it never was stable. It would stay up for a few weeks at most and then we'd have to re-index. From what you've said it sounds like it is hung. Part of our problem was tied to using a server group and virtual

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread William Rentfrow
Another thing to note with this - You might not want very much workflow to fire on the initial action that brings the email in. If there is an error in the submit process the entire thing will roll back and it's harder to troubleshoot. When I've set this up in the past I actually push the

Re: Email to ARS 7.6.04

2013-05-08 Thread William Rentfrow
Some guy wrote the DIY version a long time ago as well... http://williamrentfrow.com/automating-service-bmc-remedy-email-engine-part-1/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carl Wilson Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:02 PM To:

Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?

2013-05-06 Thread William Rentfrow
I have $1 on this being Peregrine 2.0. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of laurent matheo Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 8:37 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? ** I just hope some guys I know at BMC will

Re: SYS:Form Field Selection Form

2013-04-04 Thread William Rentfrow
You need to do more than thatI just went through this fortunately - You need to make sure the field is on the source form (I believe that one is on HPD:Help Desk but is hidden). Then you also need to add it to copy that field to NTE:SYS-NT Process Control Then you need to alter the

Re: OT: Email distribution services

2013-03-15 Thread William Rentfrow
Joe - There are a LOT of self-hosted auto-responders out there. The advantage to these (especially when sending internally) is that you're using an internal mailbox to send, so you won't get flagged as Spam. Also, the comment below makes sense. Our main customers have email distribution

Computer User Agent?

2013-02-19 Thread William Rentfrow
William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: Computer User Agent?

2013-02-19 Thread William Rentfrow
()); Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:16 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Computer User Agent? ** Hi all - We've had a request to allow approvals

Re: Computer User Agent?

2013-02-19 Thread William Rentfrow
. i.e. to put into a field of zTmpUserAgent (536870923) javascript:window.F(536870923).DoSet(get_user_agent()); Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4

Re: armonitor config questions

2013-02-14 Thread William Rentfrow
I think you got the first line wrong or it was a bungled typo by someone. That should be more like this, and it starts up the main ar server process (arserverd): #opt/bmc/ARSystem/bin/arserversd -s servername -I /opt/bmc/ARSystem The second line is kind of the same problem - it looks like it

Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-05 Thread William Rentfrow
and now since implementing the recommendations it's been stable for 2 months. Simon From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 8:28 a.m. To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread William Rentfrow
for weeks. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Outlook stripping carriage returns

2013-01-30 Thread William Rentfrow
like the above. Thanks in advance... William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 Cell: 715-398-5056 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been

Re: FTS search on CI Name

2012-11-20 Thread William Rentfrow
considered (given that it is all in one table) it looks like FTS just grabs the first possible match up to the max in the threshold prior to evaluating which ones are good matches. Upping the FT Search Threshhold to 25,000 fixed the problem. William Rentfrow wrentf

Re: AR System ITSM Upgrades (we are WAY behind)

2012-11-20 Thread William Rentfrow
weekend outage or what have you - but if you have larger volume you will want to investigate this. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com 715-204-3061 Office 715-498-5056 Cell From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

FTS search on CI Name

2012-11-15 Thread William Rentfrow
. but given the search being issued it should find it. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com 715-204-3061 Office 715-498-5056 Cell ___ UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Incoming email sometimes

2012-11-14 Thread William Rentfrow
Standard question: anything in the Email logs? Also, every once in a while I run into email problems where I just kill -9 the email process and it starts working as expected. Not the best fix in the world, but at least it doesn't take down the server. William Rentfrow wrentf

Weird FTS issue

2012-11-14 Thread William Rentfrow
enabled in each system. They are the same. I'm completely in the dark on this one. Everything is working fine but for some reason Dev's index files are huge. All the config options, ignore list, etc are the same across all systems. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf

Re: Weird FTS issue

2012-11-14 Thread William Rentfrow
We're using a remote Oracle database so all CLOBs are in-row. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com 715-204-3061 Office 715-498-5056 Cell From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

XMLCE hangs, Oracle locks, arschema won't update (long, boring, but important...)

2012-11-09 Thread William Rentfrow
of an obscure bug that only happens on Tuesdays during a thunderstorm. Unfortunately it's becoming more frequent. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.commailto:wrentf...@stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com 715-204-3061 Office 715-498-5056 Cell

Re: XMLCE hangs, Oracle locks, arschema won't update (long, boring, but important...)

2012-11-09 Thread William Rentfrow
to be safe -Offload the IVR transactions to their own web server (not likely due to redundancy issues). William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com 715-204-3061 Office 715-498-5056 Cell -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

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