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2014-08-20 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All,

Is there a way to configure multiple FROM addresses? I have the requirement to 
use different FROM addresses depending on the customer and the situation. As 
far as I can tell there are two filters used by the Notification Engine to send 
outgoing emails. This seems to leave me with the option of only having one FROM 
address configured either in the filter or defaulting to the mailbox. I am 
hoping that I can configure the FROM as custom or default depending on the 
customer and/or situation.

Thanks
Mark

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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 undeclared for which pool they should 
use, they still CAN use #4, and mess up your escalation.  I've seen that happen 
quite a few times.

So basically - if you are going to define a pool for one escalation - you might 
as well do it for ALL of the escalations.

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian Goralczyk
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
One of the tricks that I have found to help is to look at the number of records 
that are in the table and how many are returned by your escalation.  Then 
decide what is being done to them and does it need to be single threaded?  If 
not, and you just need the escalation to schedule the work it might be 
something that you can turn multi-threaded in the way it runs by having an 
escalation for that has one record and performs a push to all the matching 
records.

I can go into this deeper if anyone prefers.  But it can definitely improve the 
performance of escalations.

Brian Goralczyk

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Doug Blair 
d...@blairing.commailto:d...@blairing.com wrote:
**
Mahmoud,

I have done quite a bit of fiddling with just this situation.

Simply put, out-of-the-box the Escalation process is single threaded, which 
means that with no further adjustments only one escalation can operate at any 
given time. A long running escalation will delay the start of others, and a 
very long running escalation can cause some cases of the shorter ones to be 
skipped entirely.

To fix this you can add threads to the escalation process (390603). This will 
allow more than one escalation to run at the same time. This will allow more of 
your escalations to complete without blocking each other, but still might allow 
some to be delayed.

There is also the chance that some escalations depend on other escalations to 
be completed before they will do what is expected. The notification engine has 
a couple cases like this.  These sorts of escalations can be grouped together 
using escalation pools.

Please do not be tempted to add one thread or pool for every escalation! That 
would work, but would waste a lot of resources and potentially slow things 
down.  You will need to turn on escalation logging and see how many escalations 
are ready too fire each minute, then adjust the number of threads so that more 
of them will fire and complete. Then group the ones which should not be blocked 
into unique pools. You can experiment with all of these pools and threads a 
bit, and remember that each thread, whether in an escalation queue or any other 
queue will tax the system somewhat. You want those threads to be mostly busy, 
and for there to be at least one thread/pool combination to be available every 
minute for your essential one.

One way to be certain this happens might be to isolate your critical escalation 
in a pool by itself (let’s say pool 3), set your escalation threads to 3, and 
set all the other escalations to either pool NULL (which is the default) or 
pools 1-2. Anything in pool 1 or 2 will run on one of the first two available 
threads, and your essential one will be the only thing that runs in thread 3.

You might have several escalations which need to fire every minute. As long as 
those don’t take a long time to run they could be all in the same pool. If you 
find that running all the escalations assigned to pool 3 takes longer than a 
minute, you’ll need to look at more threads or more pools.

You can also investigate scheduling of the escalations. It is very common to 
find that a lot are scheduled to run at :00 in each hour (the default value). 
Perhaps some of these can be mored to another time so they do not all trigger 
at once.

All that said, there is also the possibility that some of your escalations 
might be poorly written and just be doing things very inefficiently. Look 
closely at the RUNIF qualifications of those that seem to take a long time to 
complete, and turn those just as you would an inefficient filter qualification 
or search for a report or other lookup…

Hope this helps!

Doug Blair


On Aug 19, 2014, at 4:04 AM, Mahmoud Mahdy-Mohamed, Vodafone Egypt 
mahmoud.mahdy-moha...@vodafone.commailto:mahmoud.mahdy-moha...@vodafone.com 
wrote:


**
Dears,
Kindly help as I’m facing a critical issue, the escalations are running 
randomly regardless the execution time that it should execute in. For example I 
have escalation that has to run every minute however it is running after 30 min 
which causes a delay in other related work flows.
Note:- I’m using 7.6.04 SP4

Thanks,
Best Regards,

Mahmoud Mahdy Mohammed,PMP 

Re: API:Only Data field names and Ids

2014-08-20 Thread Sweety
I am using .Net APIs for this program. Below program is working fine but it is 
taking 5 to 10 minutes to fetch the fields.

Dim Result = Access.server.GetAllFields(HPD:Help Desk).Values
Dim name, Id As String
Dim Datatype As Integer
For Each VARIABLE In Result
name = (DirectCast(VARIABLE, BMC.ARSystem.Field).Name)
Id = (DirectCast(VARIABLE, BMC.ARSystem.Field).Id)
Datatype = (DirectCast(VARIABLE, BMC.ARSystem.Field).DataType)
Next

One more thing, I want to know the field label names of a view. How can I do 
that?

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Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread LJ LongWing
William,
I have never seen that, I have experienced that any escalation 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.com wrote:

 **

 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 undeclared for which pool they
 should use, they still CAN use #4, and mess up your escalation.  I've seen
 that happen quite a few times.



 So basically - if you are going to define a pool for one escalation - you
 might as well do it for ALL of the escalations.



 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
 arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Brian Goralczyk
 *Sent:* Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:39 PM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Re: Wrong escalation execution time



 **

 One of the tricks that I have found to help is to look at the number of
 records that are in the table and how many are returned by your escalation.
  Then decide what is being done to them and does it need to be single
 threaded?  If not, and you just need the escalation to schedule the work it
 might be something that you can turn multi-threaded in the way it runs by
 having an escalation for that has one record and performs a push to all the
 matching records.



 I can go into this deeper if anyone prefers.  But it can definitely
 improve the performance of escalations.



 Brian Goralczyk



 On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Doug Blair d...@blairing.com wrote:

 **

 Mahmoud,



 I have done quite a bit of fiddling with just this situation.



 Simply put, out-of-the-box the Escalation process is single threaded,
 which means that with no further adjustments only one escalation can
 operate at any given time. A long running escalation will delay the start
 of others, and a very long running escalation can cause some cases of the
 shorter ones to be skipped entirely.



 To fix this you can add threads to the escalation process (390603). This
 will allow more than one escalation to run at the same time. This will
 allow more of your escalations to complete without blocking each other, but
 still might allow some to be delayed.



 There is also the chance that some escalations depend on other escalations
 to be completed before they will do what is expected. The notification
 engine has a couple cases like this.  These sorts of escalations can be
 grouped together using escalation pools.



 Please do not be tempted to add one thread or pool for every escalation!
 That would work, but would waste a lot of resources and potentially slow
 things down.  You will need to turn on escalation logging and see how many
 escalations are ready too fire each minute, then adjust the number of
 threads so that more of them will fire and complete. Then group the ones
 which should not be blocked into unique pools. You can experiment with all
 of these pools and threads a bit, and remember that each thread, whether in
 an escalation queue or any other queue will tax the system somewhat. You
 want those threads to be mostly busy, and for there to be at least one
 thread/pool combination to be available every minute for your essential one.



 One way to be certain this happens might be to isolate your critical
 escalation in a pool by itself (let’s say pool 3), set your escalation
 threads to 3, and set all the other escalations to either pool NULL (which
 is the default) or pools 1-2. Anything in pool 1 or 2 will run on one of
 the first two available threads, and your essential one will be the only
 thing that runs in thread 3.



 You might have several escalations which need to fire every minute. As
 long as those don’t take a long time to run they could be all in the same
 pool. If you find that running all the escalations assigned to pool 3 takes
 longer than a minute, you’ll need to look at more threads or more pools.



 You can also investigate scheduling of the escalations. It is very common
 to find that a lot are scheduled to run at :00 in each hour (the default
 value). Perhaps some of these can be mored to another time so they do not
 all trigger at once.



 All that said, there is also the possibility that some of your escalations
 might be poorly written and just be doing things very inefficiently. Look
 closely at the RUNIF qualifications of those that seem to take a long time
 to complete, and turn those just as you would an inefficient filter
 qualification or search for a report or other lookup…



 Hope this helps!



 Doug Blair





 On Aug 19, 2014, at 4:04 AM, Mahmoud Mahdy-Mohamed, Vodafone Egypt 
 mahmoud.mahdy-moha...@vodafone.com wrote:



  **

 Dears,

 Kindly help as I’m 

Re: API:Only Data field names and Ids

2014-08-20 Thread LJ LongWing
Sweety,
As I don't use the .NET, I can't give direct help, but in the Java version,
there in a way to specify which attributes of a field you want to pull
back, with the default being 'all'...if all you are looking for is those 3
attributes, but you are pulling back ALL attributes of all fields, needless
to say, you are pulling back WAY more data than you want, so if you can
figure out how to limit the attributes returned to the 3 you are looking
for, it'll greatly increase your performance.

Now, relating to the 'label', this is also a field attribute, but is part
of an attribute map, because there is 1 label for each view of the form,
based on the ID's of the views, so, you will need to do a 'for' within your
current for loop to pull out each of the labels, and likely store those in
an array, hash, etc, but the information should be available in what you
are already pulling back.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Sweety sweetykhann...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am using .Net APIs for this program. Below program is working fine but
 it is taking 5 to 10 minutes to fetch the fields.

 Dim Result = Access.server.GetAllFields(HPD:Help Desk).Values
 Dim name, Id As String
 Dim Datatype As Integer
 For Each VARIABLE In Result
 name = (DirectCast(VARIABLE, BMC.ARSystem.Field).Name)
 Id = (DirectCast(VARIABLE, BMC.ARSystem.Field).Id)
 Datatype = (DirectCast(VARIABLE,
 BMC.ARSystem.Field).DataType)
 Next

 One more thing, I want to know the field label names of a view. How can I
 do that?


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Re: API:Only Data field names and Ids

2014-08-20 Thread Sweety
Thanks LJ. I am also sure how to restrict a function to fetch only three values 
in .Net.

How can I find the field label name using field id and view id? Any function ?

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Re: API:Only Data field names and Ids

2014-08-20 Thread LJ LongWing
no clue in .NET


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Sweety sweetykhann...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks LJ. I am also sure how to restrict a function to fetch only three
 values in .Net.

 How can I find the field label name using field id and view id? Any
 function ?


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Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
I thought undeclared escalations went into pool 1 by default as well. That 
being said I would agree that if you are going to the trouble to create 
separate pools it would be worth the effort IMO to analyze all your escalations 
and parse them out into separate pools based on scheduled execution time and 
expected run time to prevent bottlenecks. I have done that myself but only for 
custom escalations, not any of the ITSM workflow.

-Rick

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:22 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
William,
I have never seen that, I have experienced that any escalation 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 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 undeclared for which pool they should 
use, they still CAN use #4, and mess up your escalation.  I've seen that happen 
quite a few times.

So basically - if you are going to define a pool for one escalation - you might 
as well do it for ALL of the escalations.

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian 
Goralczyk
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
One of the tricks that I have found to help is to look at the number of records 
that are in the table and how many are returned by your escalation.  Then 
decide what is being done to them and does it need to be single threaded?  If 
not, and you just need the escalation to schedule the work it might be 
something that you can turn multi-threaded in the way it runs by having an 
escalation for that has one record and performs a push to all the matching 
records.

I can go into this deeper if anyone prefers.  But it can definitely improve the 
performance of escalations.

Brian Goralczyk

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Doug Blair 
d...@blairing.commailto:d...@blairing.com wrote:
**
Mahmoud,

I have done quite a bit of fiddling with just this situation.

Simply put, out-of-the-box the Escalation process is single threaded, which 
means that with no further adjustments only one escalation can operate at any 
given time. A long running escalation will delay the start of others, and a 
very long running escalation can cause some cases of the shorter ones to be 
skipped entirely.

To fix this you can add threads to the escalation process (390603). This will 
allow more than one escalation to run at the same time. This will allow more of 
your escalations to complete without blocking each other, but still might allow 
some to be delayed.

There is also the chance that some escalations depend on other escalations to 
be completed before they will do what is expected. The notification engine has 
a couple cases like this.  These sorts of escalations can be grouped together 
using escalation pools.

Please do not be tempted to add one thread or pool for every escalation! That 
would work, but would waste a lot of resources and potentially slow things 
down.  You will need to turn on escalation logging and see how many escalations 
are ready too fire each minute, then adjust the number of threads so that more 
of them will fire and complete. Then group the ones which should not be blocked 
into unique pools. You can experiment with all of these pools and threads a 
bit, and remember that each thread, whether in an escalation queue or any other 
queue will tax the system somewhat. You want those threads to be mostly busy, 
and for there to be at least one thread/pool combination to be available every 
minute for your essential one.

One way to be certain this happens might be to isolate your critical escalation 
in a pool by itself (let’s say pool 3), set your escalation threads to 3, and 
set all the other escalations to either pool NULL (which is the default) or 
pools 1-2. Anything in pool 1 or 2 will run on one of the first two available 
threads, and your essential one will be the only thing that runs in thread 3.

You might have several escalations which need to fire every minute. As long as 
those don’t take a long time to run they could be all in the same pool. If you 
find that running all the escalations assigned to pool 3 takes longer than a 
minute, you’ll need to look at more threads or more pools.

You can also investigate scheduling of the escalations. It is very common to 
find 

Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I think there was a bug that was fixed, but I can’t remember which patch

Of course the documentation doesn’t really cover this (It mentions Escalations 
assigned to a pool with no thread, but not Escalations not assigned to any pool 
when multiple pools are defined)

Escalations can be assigned to pools so the escalations from each pool run in 
parallel on separate threads within the escalation queue. To use escalation 
pools, you must first configure multiple threads for the escalation queue as 
described in AR System server queues. If you assign an escalation to a pool 
that has no thread configured, the escalation is run by the first thread.

Fred


From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:47 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
I thought undeclared escalations went into pool 1 by default as well. That 
being said I would agree that if you are going to the trouble to create 
separate pools it would be worth the effort IMO to analyze all your escalations 
and parse them out into separate pools based on scheduled execution time and 
expected run time to prevent bottlenecks. I have done that myself but only for 
custom escalations, not any of the ITSM workflow.

-Rick

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:22 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
William,
I have never seen that, I have experienced that any escalation 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  wrote:
**
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 undeclared for which pool they should 
use, they still CAN use #4, and mess up your escalation.  I've seen that happen 
quite a few times.

So basically - if you are going to define a pool for one escalation - you might 
as well do it for ALL of the escalations.

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian 
Goralczyk
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
One of the tricks that I have found to help is to look at the number of records 
that are in the table and how many are returned by your escalation.  Then 
decide what is being done to them and does it need to be single threaded?  If 
not, and you just need the escalation to schedule the work it might be 
something that you can turn multi-threaded in the way it runs by having an 
escalation for that has one record and performs a push to all the matching 
records.

I can go into this deeper if anyone prefers.  But it can definitely improve the 
performance of escalations.

Brian Goralczyk

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Doug Blair  wrote:
**
Mahmoud,

I have done quite a bit of fiddling with just this situation.

Simply put, out-of-the-box the Escalation process is single threaded, which 
means that with no further adjustments only one escalation can operate at any 
given time. A long running escalation will delay the start of others, and a 
very long running escalation can cause some cases of the shorter ones to be 
skipped entirely.

To fix this you can add threads to the escalation process (390603). This will 
allow more than one escalation to run at the same time. This will allow more of 
your escalations to complete without blocking each other, but still might allow 
some to be delayed.

There is also the chance that some escalations depend on other escalations to 
be completed before they will do what is expected. The notification engine has 
a couple cases like this.  These sorts of escalations can be grouped together 
using escalation pools.

Please do not be tempted to add one thread or pool for every escalation! That 
would work, but would waste a lot of resources and potentially slow things 
down.  You will need to turn on escalation logging and see how many escalations 
are ready too fire each minute, then adjust the number of threads so that more 
of them will fire and complete. Then group the ones which should not be blocked 
into unique pools. You can experiment with all of these pools and threads a 
bit, and remember that each thread, whether in an escalation queue or any other 
queue will tax the system somewhat. You want those threads to be mostly busy, 
and for there to be at least one thread/pool combination to be available 

Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread William Rentfrow
I haven't seen it for a while, but we did have multiple copies of logs where 
this was happening a year or so ago.  If (as another poster said) it's a bug 
that has been fixed, perhaps that's why I haven't seen it for a while.

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:47 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
I thought undeclared escalations went into pool 1 by default as well. That 
being said I would agree that if you are going to the trouble to create 
separate pools it would be worth the effort IMO to analyze all your escalations 
and parse them out into separate pools based on scheduled execution time and 
expected run time to prevent bottlenecks. I have done that myself but only for 
custom escalations, not any of the ITSM workflow.

-Rick

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:22 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
William,
I have never seen that, I have experienced that any escalation 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 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 undeclared for which pool they should 
use, they still CAN use #4, and mess up your escalation.  I've seen that happen 
quite a few times.

So basically - if you are going to define a pool for one escalation - you might 
as well do it for ALL of the escalations.

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian 
Goralczyk
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 6:39 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Wrong escalation execution time

**
One of the tricks that I have found to help is to look at the number of records 
that are in the table and how many are returned by your escalation.  Then 
decide what is being done to them and does it need to be single threaded?  If 
not, and you just need the escalation to schedule the work it might be 
something that you can turn multi-threaded in the way it runs by having an 
escalation for that has one record and performs a push to all the matching 
records.

I can go into this deeper if anyone prefers.  But it can definitely improve the 
performance of escalations.

Brian Goralczyk

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Doug Blair 
d...@blairing.commailto:d...@blairing.com wrote:
**
Mahmoud,

I have done quite a bit of fiddling with just this situation.

Simply put, out-of-the-box the Escalation process is single threaded, which 
means that with no further adjustments only one escalation can operate at any 
given time. A long running escalation will delay the start of others, and a 
very long running escalation can cause some cases of the shorter ones to be 
skipped entirely.

To fix this you can add threads to the escalation process (390603). This will 
allow more than one escalation to run at the same time. This will allow more of 
your escalations to complete without blocking each other, but still might allow 
some to be delayed.

There is also the chance that some escalations depend on other escalations to 
be completed before they will do what is expected. The notification engine has 
a couple cases like this.  These sorts of escalations can be grouped together 
using escalation pools.

Please do not be tempted to add one thread or pool for every escalation! That 
would work, but would waste a lot of resources and potentially slow things 
down.  You will need to turn on escalation logging and see how many escalations 
are ready too fire each minute, then adjust the number of threads so that more 
of them will fire and complete. Then group the ones which should not be blocked 
into unique pools. You can experiment with all of these pools and threads a 
bit, and remember that each thread, whether in an escalation queue or any other 
queue will tax the system somewhat. You want those threads to be mostly busy, 
and for there to be at least one thread/pool combination to be available every 
minute for your essential one.

One way to be certain this happens might be to isolate your critical escalation 
in a pool by itself (let’s say pool 3), set your escalation threads to 3, and 
set all the other escalations to either pool NULL (which is the default) or 
pools 1-2. Anything in pool 1 or 2 will run on one of the first two available 

Job: Seeking BMC Experts to join our growing team!

2014-08-20 Thread Rachna Soni
Good Morning!

Column Technologies is looking for both Sr. Level and Jr. Level BMC consultants!
Opportunities are all permanent direct hire and as follows:

California: Jr Consultants (2-5 yrs exp), also accepting Mid and Sr level to 
discuss future opportunities
Chicago: Jr Consultants (2-5 yrs exp)
New York: Sr (5+ yrs) and Jr. (2-5 yrs exp) Consultants
Southern Region of U.S.- ITSM Engineers 

If you or anyone you know are looking for a great company to grow with contact 
me ASAP at rs_employm...@columnit.com.

These opportunities offer a competitive benefits package and salary!
(Candidates must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.)


Please visit us at www.columnit.com to learn more about us!

I look forward to speaking with you!

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Average Feedback Details Calcultation

2014-08-20 Thread rajesh
Hi All,

How does Average Feedback Details Calculation work in Remedy Knowledge 
Management in 8.1?Is it 
based on Article ID or Version ?

Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks,
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Services Migration from Cisco RC to BMC Remedy SRM

2014-08-20 Thread rajesh
Hi All,

We have a requirement of moving all the Services from our Current Product 
(Cisco Request Center) 
to BMC SRM.We have Close to 200 services which needs to be migrated to BMC SRM.
I would appreciate if you can provide insight on the same as i do not want to 
build 200 Services 
manually in SRM.

What should be the best way to migrate services from Third Party Tool to BMC  
SRM.

Thanks,
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Re: Job: Seeking BMC Experts to join our growing team!

2014-08-20 Thread Devangi Saldur
Hi Rachna,

Thank you for your mail.I would like to apply for the position.please find
the attached resume.
Please let me know if I am eligible.

Regards,
Devangi Saldur
On 20 Aug 2014 21:57, Rachna Soni rs_employm...@columnit.com wrote:

 Good Morning!

 Column Technologies is looking for both Sr. Level and Jr. Level BMC
consultants!
 Opportunities are all permanent direct hire and as follows:

 California: Jr Consultants (2-5 yrs exp), also accepting Mid and Sr level
to discuss future opportunities
 Chicago: Jr Consultants (2-5 yrs exp)
 New York: Sr (5+ yrs) and Jr. (2-5 yrs exp) Consultants
 Southern Region of U.S.- ITSM Engineers

 If you or anyone you know are looking for a great company to grow with
contact me ASAP at rs_employm...@columnit.com.

 These opportunities offer a competitive benefits package and salary!
 (Candidates must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.)


 Please visit us at www.columnit.com to learn more about us!

 I look forward to speaking with you!

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Re: arslist Digest - 17 Apr 2014 to 18 Apr 2014 (#2014-119)

2014-08-20 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Why don't people realize that if they looked at the email it has the
requirements to unsubscribe in it?  I never understand that.  I take that
as someone thinking they are more important than someone else.  I mean it
isn't like people are just harvesting email addresses and adding them to
the list.  You signed up for itYou cancel your subscription.

Sorry, just had to vent on the subject.


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 *   Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001
 *   Filed attributes
 *   ADM: List issues? (2)
 *   List issues? (2)
 *   Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
 documentation on customizations
 *   Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (2)
 *   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
 unless steps are taken now


 1.  Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001

 *   Re: Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001 (04/18)
 From: kanhu mohapatra kanhu.san...@gmail.com


 2.  Filed attributes

 *   Filed attributes (04/18)
 From: vidyasagar kommu kommuvidyasa...@gmail.com


 3.  ADM: List issues?

 *   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
 From: LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com
 *   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
 From: Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com


 4.  List issues?

 *   Re: List issues? (04/18)
 From: Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.com
 *   Re: List issues? (04/18)
 From: Lucero, Michelle
 michelle.luc...@bankofamerica.com


 5.  Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
 documentation on customizations

 *   Re: Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but
 do not have documentation on customizations (04/18)
 From: Rajiv Nakkana leeprincera...@gmail.com


 6.  Finding AR License without accessing Remedy

 *   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
 From: Theo Fondse (Gmail) theo.fon...@gmail.com
 *   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
 From: James Smith bmcremedyarslis...@gmail.com


 7.  OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
 unless steps are taken now

 *   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is
 coming unless steps are taken now (04/18)
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Re: arslist Digest - 17 Apr 2014 to 18 Apr 2014 (#2014-119)

2014-08-20 Thread Shellman, David
Huh?  I think you are referencing an old email.  It appears that the email from 
Deborah Harmon is from April 22nd of this year.

Dave

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Why don't people realize that if they looked at the email it has the 
requirements to unsubscribe in it?  I never understand that.  I take that as 
someone thinking they are more important than someone else.  I mean it isn't 
like people are just harvesting email addresses and adding them to the list.  
You signed up for itYou cancel your subscription.

Sorry, just had to vent on the subject.

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*   Filed attributes
*   ADM: List issues? (2)
*   List issues? (2)
*   Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
documentation on customizations
*   Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (2)
*   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
unless steps are taken now


1.  Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001

*   Re: Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001 (04/18)
From: kanhu mohapatra 
kanhu.san...@gmail.commailto:kanhu.san...@gmail.com


2.  Filed attributes

*   Filed attributes (04/18)
From: vidyasagar kommu 
kommuvidyasa...@gmail.commailto:kommuvidyasa...@gmail.com


3.  ADM: List issues?

*   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
From: LJ LongWing 
lj.longw...@gmail.commailto:lj.longw...@gmail.com
*   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
From: Grooms, Frederick W 
frederick.w.gro...@xo.commailto:frederick.w.gro...@xo.com


4.  List issues?

*   Re: List issues? (04/18)
From: Kathy Morris 
kathymorris...@aol.commailto:kathymorris...@aol.com
*   Re: List issues? (04/18)
From: Lucero, Michelle
michelle.luc...@bankofamerica.commailto:michelle.luc...@bankofamerica.com


5.  Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
documentation on customizations

*   Re: Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but
do not have documentation on customizations (04/18)
From: Rajiv Nakkana 
leeprincera...@gmail.commailto:leeprincera...@gmail.com


6.  Finding AR License without accessing Remedy

*   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
From: Theo Fondse (Gmail) 
theo.fon...@gmail.commailto:theo.fon...@gmail.com
*   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
From: James Smith 
bmcremedyarslis...@gmail.commailto:bmcremedyarslis...@gmail.com


7.  OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
unless steps are taken now

*   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is
coming unless steps are taken now (04/18)
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Re: arslist Digest - 17 Apr 2014 to 18 Apr 2014 (#2014-119)

2014-08-20 Thread David Charters
You are correct sir:) There seems to be alot of narcissistic people on the list 
these days. Either that or just plain old stupid lol


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Why don't people realize that if they looked at the email it has the 
requirements to unsubscribe in it?  I never understand that.  I take that as 
someone thinking they are more important than someone else.  I mean it isn't 
like people are just harvesting email addresses and adding them to the list.  
You signed up for itYou cancel your subscription.

Sorry, just had to vent on the subject.


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*   Filed attributes
*   ADM: List issues? (2)
*   List issues? (2)
*   Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
documentation on customizations
*   Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (2)
*   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
unless steps are taken now


1.  Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001

*   Re: Remedy error ARDSNOTE 3004 / ARDSNOTE 3001 (04/18)
From: kanhu mohapatra kanhu.san...@gmail.com


2.  Filed attributes

*   Filed attributes (04/18)
From: vidyasagar kommu kommuvidyasa...@gmail.com


3.  ADM: List issues?

*   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
From: LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com
*   Re: ADM: List issues? (04/18)
From: Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com


4.  List issues?

*   Re: List issues? (04/18)
From: Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.com
*   Re: List issues? (04/18)
From: Lucero, Michelle
michelle.luc...@bankofamerica.com


5.  Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but do not have
documentation on customizations

*   Re: Need to upgrade ARS and ITSM from 7.1 to 7.6.04 but
do not have documentation on customizations (04/18)
From: Rajiv Nakkana leeprincera...@gmail.com


6.  Finding AR License without accessing Remedy

*   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
From: Theo Fondse (Gmail) theo.fon...@gmail.com
*   Re: Finding AR License without accessing Remedy (04/18)
From: James Smith bmcremedyarslis...@gmail.com


7.  OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming
unless steps are taken now

*   OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is
coming unless steps are taken now (04/18)
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Run Process fails without error message

2014-08-20 Thread Joel Sender
Got a head-scratcher here:



Env: ARS 8.1.1, custom (e.g. SIMPLE) application on Win 2008 server.



A filter executes a RUN PROCESS that issues an OS command that writes a PDF 
file.

Everything was working fine for weeks, but this AM it failed.

Filter logs show the command, but no results.

To debug, the OS command was changed to ‘COPY file1 to file2’

This failed as well, again, without a log entry.



We rebooted the server, without making any other changes, and now it is working.

We replaced the COPY command with the original command, and it, too, is working.



ALSO, this same server will sometimes fail to run ARPLUGINs (logging in shows 
an error), and a reboot fixes it, too.



Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? My only workaround is to reboot 
every night.

TIA,

Joel

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Re: Run Process fails without error message

2014-08-20 Thread arslist
If it is a VM WIN 2008 server it sounds normal (yes, my bias against VMs is 
showing again).

 

Others can comment about it being WIN and that LINUX or other UNIX survives 
processes better.

 

Dan

 

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Subject: Run Process fails without error message

 

** 

Got a head-scratcher here:

 

Env: ARS 8.1.1, custom (e.g. SIMPLE) application on Win 2008 server.

 

A filter executes a RUN PROCESS that issues an OS command that writes a PDF 
file.

Everything was working fine for weeks, but this AM it failed.

Filter logs show the command, but no results.

To debug, the OS command was changed to ‘COPY file1 to file2’

This failed as well, again, without a log entry.

 

We rebooted the server, without making any other changes, and now it is working.

We replaced the COPY command with the original command, and it, too, is working.

 

ALSO, this same server will sometimes fail to run ARPLUGINs (logging in shows 
an error), and a reboot fixes it, too.

 

Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? My only workaround is to reboot 
every night.

TIA,

Joel

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Re: Run Process fails without error message

2014-08-20 Thread LJ LongWing
As much as I would like to jump on Dan's band wagon...I can't.  I have
countless Windows VM's running for MANY years with countless run-processes
executing constantly with no issues as you have described.

This is going to take quite a bit of troubleshooting to figure out what's
going on

So...you say a reboot, are you talking about an OS level reboot, or an
application level reboot (restart the windows service).  What happens if
you just do an app restart, instead of an OS reboot

This is an important difference, and it says a lot about what might be
wrong


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:47 PM, arslist arsl...@danielbloom.ca wrote:

 **

 If it is a VM WIN 2008 server it sounds normal (yes, my bias against VMs
 is showing again).



 Others can comment about it being WIN and that LINUX or other UNIX
 survives processes better.



 Dan



 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
 arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Joel Sender
 *Sent:* August 20, 2014 5:02 PM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Run Process fails without error message



 **

 Got a head-scratcher here:



 Env: ARS 8.1.1, custom (e.g. SIMPLE) application on Win 2008 server.



 A filter executes a RUN PROCESS that issues an OS command that writes a
 PDF file.

 Everything was working fine for weeks, but this AM it failed.

 Filter logs show the command, but no results.

 To debug, the OS command was changed to ‘COPY file1 to file2’

 This failed as well, again, without a log entry.



 We rebooted the server, without making any other changes, and now it is
 working.

 We replaced the COPY command with the original command, and it, too, is
 working.



 ALSO, this same server will sometimes fail to run ARPLUGINs (logging in
 shows an error), and a reboot fixes it, too.



 Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? My only workaround is to
 reboot every night.

 TIA,

 *Joel*

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Re: Run Process fails without error message

2014-08-20 Thread arslist
I am glad you said no issues as he has described about the VMs. I would not 
believe you if you said without issues.

 

Joel has described a weirdness that depending on it being a VM or not is also 
important.

 

Dan

 

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
Sent: August 20, 2014 6:05 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Run Process fails without error message

 

** 

As much as I would like to jump on Dan's band wagon...I can't.  I have 
countless Windows VM's running for MANY years with countless run-processes 
executing constantly with no issues as you have described.

 

This is going to take quite a bit of troubleshooting to figure out what's going 
on

 

So...you say a reboot, are you talking about an OS level reboot, or an 
application level reboot (restart the windows service).  What happens if you 
just do an app restart, instead of an OS reboot

 

This is an important difference, and it says a lot about what might be wrong

 

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:47 PM, arslist arsl...@danielbloom.ca 
mailto:arsl...@danielbloom.ca  wrote:

** 

If it is a VM WIN 2008 server it sounds normal (yes, my bias against VMs is 
showing again).

 

Others can comment about it being WIN and that LINUX or other UNIX survives 
processes better.

 

Dan

 

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Joel 
Sender
Sent: August 20, 2014 5:02 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Run Process fails without error message

 

** 

Got a head-scratcher here:

 

Env: ARS 8.1.1, custom (e.g. SIMPLE) application on Win 2008 server.

 

A filter executes a RUN PROCESS that issues an OS command that writes a PDF 
file.

Everything was working fine for weeks, but this AM it failed.

Filter logs show the command, but no results.

To debug, the OS command was changed to ‘COPY file1 to file2’

This failed as well, again, without a log entry.

 

We rebooted the server, without making any other changes, and now it is working.

We replaced the COPY command with the original command, and it, too, is working.

 

ALSO, this same server will sometimes fail to run ARPLUGINs (logging in shows 
an error), and a reboot fixes it, too.

 

Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? My only workaround is to reboot 
every night.

TIA,

Joel

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310.829.5552 tel:310.829.5552 

 

 


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Re: Run Process fails without error message

2014-08-20 Thread LJ LongWing
Believe it or not, most of the problems I have had running Remedy in a VM
are directly related to the Host not allocating sufficient resources, or
having too many VM's and not enough resources to go around.  I have also
had a weird 'random reboot' scenario where all VM's on a host are rebooted
when the host is running AMD processorsthis is apparently confirmed by
VMWare as a processor problem, and the 'ball' is in AMD's court to get it
fixedbeyond those issues, I haven't had problems running Remedy app
servers in a VM...in fact...believe it or not, my current Production DB is
a VM as well :)


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 **

 I am glad you said no issues as he has described about the VMs. I would
 not believe you if you said without issues.



 Joel has described a weirdness that depending on it being a VM or not is
 also important.



 Dan



 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
 arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *LJ LongWing
 *Sent:* August 20, 2014 6:05 PM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Re: Run Process fails without error message



 **

 As much as I would like to jump on Dan's band wagon...I can't.  I have
 countless Windows VM's running for MANY years with countless run-processes
 executing constantly with no issues as you have described.



 This is going to take quite a bit of troubleshooting to figure out what's
 going on



 So...you say a reboot, are you talking about an OS level reboot, or an
 application level reboot (restart the windows service).  What happens if
 you just do an app restart, instead of an OS reboot



 This is an important difference, and it says a lot about what might be
 wrong



 On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:47 PM, arslist arsl...@danielbloom.ca wrote:

 **

 If it is a VM WIN 2008 server it sounds normal (yes, my bias against VMs
 is showing again).



 Others can comment about it being WIN and that LINUX or other UNIX
 survives processes better.



 Dan



 *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
 arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Joel Sender
 *Sent:* August 20, 2014 5:02 PM
 *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 *Subject:* Run Process fails without error message



 **

 Got a head-scratcher here:



 Env: ARS 8.1.1, custom (e.g. SIMPLE) application on Win 2008 server.



 A filter executes a RUN PROCESS that issues an OS command that writes a
 PDF file.

 Everything was working fine for weeks, but this AM it failed.

 Filter logs show the command, but no results.

 To debug, the OS command was changed to ‘COPY file1 to file2’

 This failed as well, again, without a log entry.



 We rebooted the server, without making any other changes, and now it is
 working.

 We replaced the COPY command with the original command, and it, too, is
 working.



 ALSO, this same server will sometimes fail to run ARPLUGINs (logging in
 shows an error), and a reboot fixes it, too.



 Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? My only workaround is to
 reboot every night.

 TIA,

 *Joel*

 Joel Senderjdsen...@earthlink.net310.829.5552




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