Oracle Enterprise Manager - Webservice Integration

2007-05-22 Thread Kern, Robert SBA
Hello list, our Oracle team came up with a new feature at the Oracle Enterprise Manager to be able to connect too Remedy provided Webservices. So far so good ... issue: the out of the box feature is tailered for HelpDesk. While it is said to be possible to connect to custom Remedy Webservices

Re: Importing records, not enough fields....

2007-05-22 Thread Michiel Beijen
I know you have already discovered it but; There's a setting in the Import tool: File Preferences Import records with Too Few Fields. Also I know many people who just add a column to the right of an excel sheet and put an X in there for all rows. This way all fields will be exported to the CSV

Re: ITSM 7 customizations

2007-05-22 Thread Runar Helle
We are in the process of upgrading and will try to do most out of the box. However, although you may not change so many forms, other types of customizations will always be required. The most obvious one, perhaps, is Categorization which is now separated into two dimensions; operational and

has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hello listers, I would really like to know if anyone here has used multiple email-engines to poll mailboxes. Any experiences? I would like to get some feedback around how much is the effort installing another email-engine on a machine with already one (or more) email-engines running? Any

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread L. J. Head
I have multiple email engines on a single box strictly for outgoing purposes...it's a PITA to get working because the Email Engine doesn't offer multiple Service names like the Server does...so you must either run some commands that I received off of the list, or manually edit the registry (like I

Has anyone sent an email from Remedy to an address with two @ in it?

2007-05-22 Thread John Atherly
I'm trying to send an email out from 6.3 running on unix to [EMAIL PROTECTED]@emobile.com and just keep getting error. I can send it out our normal email system so the address is good. John Atherly American Power Conversion [EMAIL PROTECTED] 401-789-5735 Ext. 2120 1-800-788-2208 Ext. 2120

Re: Has anyone sent an email from Remedy to an address with two @ in it?

2007-05-22 Thread L. J. Head
I don't think that having multiple @'s is valid in an email address...if your able to send it out via your email system...they are likely stripping something to make it valid...but I'm not an email guru by any means _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: ITSM 7 customizations

2007-05-22 Thread Chapman, Colin
UNCW is trying to stay OOTB as much as possible. Similar points to others, like using the Login ID for the customer. Also the Client Types on the People form are not suitable for a college, so we had to change them - its crazy they are not configurable ! Another reason for some customizations -

Re: Has anyone sent an email from Remedy to an address with two @ in it?

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
For general uses, this is not a valid format: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.4.1 While your internal mail servers may have something special that allows this notation, Remedy uses java to store and process email messages. The constructors used to store email addresses within java

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread Michiel Beijen
What are you trying to achieve by having multiple email engines on one server? What platform will you be using? Every email engine you start will have its own java overhead. -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards Michiel Beijen __

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi LJ, I am not sure if I've understood your reply correctly. Let me provide some more background. We have about 150 mailboxes and it will be doubled/tripled in next few months. Till we re-design the system to restrict number of mailboxes, a short-term solution is to have multiple

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi Michael, I have just replied to LJ's email stating what we are trying to achieve. We are using Win2003 server with Tomcat engine and we are using SQL2005 as our back-end. Our AR System Server and Email Engine runs on v7.0.01 patch 001 while ITSM App version is 7.0 patch 001 Thank

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
I second Michiel's question. What are you trying to do? There may be a better approach to accomplish whatever that is. Axton Grams On 5/22/07, Michiel Beijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** What are you trying to achieve by having multiple email engines on one server? What platform will you be

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread L. J. Head
Ok...now that I have more background...I don't think that multiple email engines will help you in this instance. I don't believe that you can have more than one email engine attached to the same Remedy instance. I have never seen configuration options to say EngineA will use these mailboxes and

AR Email Can't connect error?

2007-05-22 Thread Welton Bryant
Can anyone tell me why I am getting this error with the email engine? Welton Checking connection to server: css-remedy-prd2 ... loaded library Cannot connect. MessageType: 2 MessageNum: 623 MessageText: Authentication failed AppendedText: MessageType: 2 MessageNum: 623

Re: Help

2007-05-22 Thread Shibu Samuel
Hi Rick, Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Implemented the first resolution and its Working fine Thanks Shibu Samuel From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Rick Ponzo Sent: Mon 21/05/2007 4:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: AR Email Can't connect error?

2007-05-22 Thread David Sanders
Hi Welton From the Error Messages Guide: 623 Error Authentication failed. Make sure that your user name and password were entered correctly. HTH David Sanders Remedy Solution Architect Enterprise Service Suite @ Work == ARS List Award Winner 2005 Best

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread David Sanders
Hi Neel As I previously answered you on this subject a few weeks ago, the best way for you to proceed is to set up your multiple email addresses as aliases to the same mailbox, or to forward the contents of these separate mailboxes to a single mailbox that Remedy polls. Either way, you will

Re: AR Email Can't connect error?

2007-05-22 Thread Welton Bryant
The password seems correct and is working from my production server. Any other reason this error would occur? Welton From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sanders Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Re: AR Email Can't connect error?

2007-05-22 Thread L. J. Head
no...this would likely be the Email Engine's password to connect to the Remedy servernot email client to email server _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Welton Bryant Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:34 AM To:

Re: AR Email Can't connect error?

2007-05-22 Thread David Sanders
Hi Welton I don't think it's the email password, it's the Remedy Application Service password set in the Admin tool, Server Properties, Connection Settings tab. HTH David Sanders Remedy Solution Architect Enterprise Service Suite @ Work == ARS List Award

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread Michiel Beijen
I see. I guess you can not hook up multiple email engines to one remedy server. You would then have to configure the email engine only to use certain configured mailboxes - this is not supported. I guess your way forward would be to, as David also stated, reduce the amount of mailboxes that the

Flashboards not cooperating.

2007-05-22 Thread Mosco, John D.
All, Have a flashboard that I built using bar graph to display certain variables of types of tickets. After building the flashboard I created text fields on top of it so I could label the bars and areas better. They display in remedy admin but not in user. 1. Permissions are

Re: Flashboards not cooperating.

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
What were you able to do with the text fields that you couldn't do with the flashboards axis labels? In 7.x (maybe for earlier versions), you can set the font type, size, style, etc for any of the text labels within the fb. Axton Grams On 5/22/07, Mosco, John D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **

Re: More Server Groups

2007-05-22 Thread Easter, David
You can find the Statement of Direction for Virtual Environments at: http://www.bmc.com/products/documents/68/66/66866/66866.pdf The FAQ states: Can I use the same purchased BMC Remedy licenses on multiple virtual machines? No, unless the license you purchased would allow for use on multiple

GetListActiveLinkGuide .Net API

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen
ARS .Net API v7.0.2523.16350 Does the GetListActiveLinkGuide method work for anyone? When logged into an ARS server v7.0.01 patch 1, the call to GetListActiveLinkGuide(formName, #01/01/1970#) always returns 0 items even with forms that have Active Link Guides attached. Calling

Search Menu Values

2007-05-22 Thread Nall, Roger
Hello All, ARS 6.3 patch 16 WIN2k SQL2k I just noticed something strange the other day. I have a search menu attached to a field on Form A. The form referenced in the search menu is Form A. The Label and Value referenced in the menu is the field that the menu is attached to. The only

Re: has anyone used multiple email-engines on one server?

2007-05-22 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi David, Yes, I definitely remember your previous email weeks back. That is precisely what we will do but we have email multi-tenancy bound to mailboxes and we have made so many customizations with our email-module. We also plan to use only one outbound mailbox and set templates, 'reply-to'

Re: Flashboards not cooperating.

2007-05-22 Thread Mosco, John D.
I want to use vertical, horizontal lines and text boxes (im in version 6.x). I don't understand it if I pull the fields above the flashboard it shows, and I have already brought to front. It displays correctly in Admin but not in user. -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Archiving

2007-05-22 Thread Nisha Ramtri
Hi Gary, When archiving is enabled, the workflow doesn't get attached to the new archived form. It still remains with the primary form. Hence if there are multiple dependencies, as in, multiple other forms which have some data being displayed in the primary form, then if you archive the multiple

Re: Flashboards not cooperating.

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
Might just be a limitation or difference in the way view fields are rendered in the client versus admin tool. I've seen the same thing before. In the flashboard object, do you have an advanced properties tab? If so, you can set some finer grained properties on the display properties,

AREMAIL Erorr 8201

2007-05-22 Thread Welton Bryant
Hi listers, Anyone come across this email error before? Welton Checking connection to server: css-remedy-prd2 ... loaded library Cannot connect. MessageType: 2 MessageNum: 8201 MessageText: Cannot open catalog; Message number = 8201 AppendedText: 1038

arserverd issues

2007-05-22 Thread Rocky Rockwell
Folks, we have an issue arserverd on our product ARS7.0.1 server. We are on solaris 9, ARS 7.0.1 and oracle 10g. We are seeing the arserverd process die and restart many times during the day/night/weekday/weekend. Has anyone experienced this issue in 7.0.1 and what did you find for a solution.

Re: arserverd issues

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
What patch level? We had a similar issue with patch 2. Can you post the stack trace from the arerror.log file? Axton Grams On 5/22/07, Rocky Rockwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, we have an issue arserverd on our product ARS7.0.1 server. We are on solaris 9, ARS 7.0.1 and oracle 10g. We

IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
When I am on the IM Console and select the Overview Console, the application sits with an hourglass for a few minutes, then returns ARERR 94. Anybody overcome this issue? I didn't find a KB entry to cover this. The only one even close said it would be addressed in 7.0 P3, and I'm on 7.0.2 P3

Automatic Relationships

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Doble
Hi All, Is there a simple way to relate (in ARSystem 7.x, COMB 2.x) person information with asset information? Specifically; 1. I have many assets listed as CI item BMC_Computer System 2. I have many people identified as CI item BMC_Person 3. I also have all these people in

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Roger Justice
I have a development server that the plugin is not running on that will give me an hourglass and then fail to load. Be sure your plugin is running. -Original Message- From: Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, 22 May 2007 1:48 pm Subject: IM 7.x Overview

Re: AREMAIL Erorr 8201

2007-05-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Error 8201 Description: The RPC socket number specified is not one of the legal values (0, 390600, 390621 - 390634, 390636 - 390669, 390680 - 390694). Notes: When connecting the client to AR System server, you set the RPC socket number to a value outside the legal range. The legal ranges of

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Mario Roehr
Rick, there's a patched ardbcquery.dll (for Windows OS) that has to be replaced with the existing one in your IM installation directory. I try to attach to my post. If it rejected please contact me off list. HTH ___

Re: Automatic Relationships

2007-05-22 Thread Ben Chernys
I ask this: how would you do it manually? In effect, how do you know which person is related to which CI? Do you have a list of these relations? Do you have any rules to derive the correct CI to relate to any one person? Ben _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Search Menu Values

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Ponzo
Hi Roger, No, there shouldn't be anything that would cause that to occur just because of the menu being attached. You should run some AL and Filter Logs to see what else may be modifying that field. Rick Ponzo IntegrITS Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nall, Roger wrote: ** Hello All,

Re: FW: Building a Demonstration Laptop

2007-05-22 Thread Kathy Morris
I wish they would give the free demo licenses. Not distributing the developer license is not stopping developers from consulting independently. If anything, the more enhance the skill-set of the developer, the better the reflection upon the BMC product.

Slow web responce using Requestor Console.

2007-05-22 Thread Howard Richter
Good afternoon all, We are running ServiceDesk 7.0 (Requestor, Incident and SLM) and are seeing poor response when running the Requestor Console in the web. On the user tool the Requestor Console works much faster. The speed issue shows up when selecting between open/closed incidents that

C API: Setting Date/Time Value.

2007-05-22 Thread Mikhail
Hello List, I have a few questions regarding setting a value for the field with data type Date/Time in a C API. Which one should I use? AR_DATA_TYPE_TIME? or AR_DATA_TYPE_DATE? Also how can I set it to $TODAY$ (the time and date as we speak)? An example value for the Date/Type data type would be

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
I don't get the message that the plugin isn't running - it's a DB timeout. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:13 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IM 7.x Overview Console

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Vincent RIEDWEG
Did you configure the CAI plugin on a specific RPC # with enough threads ? Vincent. De : Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Rick Cook Envoyé : mardi 22 mai 2007 22:08 À : arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Objet : Re:

Curious behavior in ITSM 7.0

2007-05-22 Thread Payne, George
Hey Gang, Our Environment: ARS 7.0.1 P2 on Solaris ITSM 7.0 Oracle 10g on Solaris We were trying out our new installation of ITSM 7.0 and noticed an odd thing in the Requester Information on the New Request off of the Requester Console. The user's Business Phone had been properly entered

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
Yup - 2 threads should be enough for non-production usage, shouldn't it? Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent RIEDWEG Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IM 7.x Overview Console

Re: Crystal Error

2007-05-22 Thread Harbin, Erica M. (MSFC-NNM04AA02C)[SAIC]
Did reinstalling the client resolve this issue? I am having the same issue. Unfortunately, this did not resolve my problem. I noticed that the user still have v5.1.2 installed while version 7.0.1 patch 1 was installed. I reinstalled 7.0.1 patch 1 without uninstalling because of the bug with the MS

Re: Curious behavior in ITSM 7.0

2007-05-22 Thread Tony Worthington
George - I just verified this on our patch003 install as well. Funny that the workflow lets you enter a number such as 1-1-1 and doesn't throw an error. :-) I don't see any defects which address this in patch004 either. Have you filed a defect? We haven't addressed this yet, but it just

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
Why would I need to have a Web Services parameter for an ARDBC function? If there is a need for it, is it just an entry in ar.cfg (after creating the queue)? I am on 7.0.2 Patch 3. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
Hmmm...well, I do have the Plugin-Filter-API-Threads parameter set in ar.cfg (1 15), so it seems that base is covered. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent RIEDWEG Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:30 PM To:

Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
Several months ago, Axton mentioned that a perl script to prefetch the forms and applications to the Mid-Tier server was included in the Mid-Tier 7 installation. I found the sample script (prefetchConfig.xml) in the C:Program Files\AR System\Mid-Tier\WEB-INF\classes directory, and I have made the

Re: Crystal Error

2007-05-22 Thread DILL, PATRICK A
I have seen this error on machines that had a third-party Crystal application or other Crystal DLL's installed on the client. In my experience, a reinstall of the Crystal11 Redistributables solves the problem. If concerned about the Crystal install, try isolating the Crystal DLL's and

Re: Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier

2007-05-22 Thread strauss
On 7.0.x editing the prefetchConfig.xml to a live state (remove the comment lines) !-- -- activates the script - just restart your mid-tier (web server) and hang on to your desk. Watch the CPU activity on your AR server. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Remedy Database Administrator University of

Re: Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier

2007-05-22 Thread Vincent RIEDWEG
This file is read at the mid-tier webserver restart. I never hear about any handmade or existing script to read this file and pre load the mid-tier cache. Vincent. De : Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part

Re: IM 7.x Overview Console times out

2007-05-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I seem to remember something about having filter min threads sized to accommodate the number of API threads (quick offhand thought) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Re: Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier

2007-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
That did the trick - thanks, Dr. Chris. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:52 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier ** On 7.0.x editing the

Re: Prefetch ITSM to mid-tier

2007-05-22 Thread Axton
The perl script was the pre-7 method. The prefetch xml file is read and run on startup of the mid-tier. If you enable the verbose mid-tier logs, you will see the prefetch happen when you start the servlet container on which the mid-tier is deployed. You will also notice it on the arserver in

Extracting Date from Date/Time Field - need help!

2007-05-22 Thread Morris, Dave (MOH)
We've imported our Dates into a Date/Time field, and we're now running into problems with dates in the 3 weeks early Daylight Savings Time (DST) change. The Date went in as the specified date at 12:00:00AM, but when we extract a date between March 11 and April 1 inclusive the hour is decremented

Re: Extracting Date from Date/Time Field - need help!

2007-05-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Since all you want is the date (and all oof your dates went in at 12 midnight) you can add an hour (or more) to your Date/Time value before moving it to the Date field. That should guarantee you are in the correct date. Fred From: Action Request System

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

Display Timezone in Mid-Tier after Login

2007-05-22 Thread Geoffrey Endresen
We have a request from our users to show Pacific Timezone on everything instead of the local timezone of the user for a mid-tier application. I want to display the current timezone of the user on the forms after login to show the user what timezone applies to all dates on the form. Any ideas?

Re: ITSM 7 customizations

2007-05-22 Thread Candace DeCou
I've got 2 answers - what the 'company' thinks they want me to do and what I know I will end up doing. Answer for the company - go straight OOB - actually just attempt to upgrade the poor, pre-existing 6.x full ITSM suite with its pre-existing stupid set of CTI's. Yeah, right! Answer for me -

Re: Display Timezone in Mid-Tier after Login

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Molenda
Force user preferences to all be US-EN and PST Timezone. That should work. Thanks-n-advance; HDT Platform Incident / Problem Manager Architect Robert Molenda IT OS PA Tel: +1 408 503 2701 Fax: +1 408 503 2912 Mobile: +1 408 472 8097 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality begins with your

Description Field Search using %value% on HPD:Helpdesk.

2007-05-22 Thread Jase Brandon
Hi Listers, Help Desk 7.0 Patch 002 Description field on HPD:Helpdesk is being hit by an unknown user searching with the advanced search bar using %value%. Decription field has QBE of leading and has no FTS indexes built. Needless to say this is causing performance problems. I talked to our

Re: Description Field Search using %value% on HPD:Helpdesk.

2007-05-22 Thread Susan Palmer
You might consider turning on SQL logging. Do it in maybe 2 hours stages so the file is workable. Then do a search for that string. It should tell you who is doing it. It will take some work Susan On 5/22/07, Jase Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Hi Listers, Help Desk 7.0 Patch 002

Re: Create Incident record via Email

2007-05-22 Thread Thirumavalavan Muthusamy NCS
Hi Gautam, Thank you for your email. Can you tell me how do you pass the Message ID from email to HelpDesk form? Regards Thiru From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel Sent: Friday, May

Re: Create Incident record via Email

2007-05-22 Thread SUBSCRIBE arslist Neel
Hi Thiru, We have a staging form (a display-only form) with table field that basically gets records from 'AR System Email Messages' form - few columns hidden (MessageID and IncidnetID being one of those columns). When we double-click a record from this staging form, it opens incident window

Re: BMC ITSM vs. Tivoli?

2007-05-22 Thread William Rentfrow
KML = Knowledge Management Language Rumor has (had?) it the language was an early attempt at trying to create some type of artificial intelligence for making fuzzy logic decisions. I don't know what the real method to their madness was - but there certainly was a madness to their method.

Re: C API: Setting Date/Time Value.

2007-05-22 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Hi, This is how I'm doing it include time.h long ltime; time(ltime); ...value.dataType =AR_DATA_TYPE_TIME ...value.u.timeVal = ltime; -- Jarl On 5/22/07, Mikhail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I have a few questions regarding setting a value for the field with data type