Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Hugo Visser
What really disappoints me is that they are using vendor forms all over the place nowadays. That looks to me like hey we couldn't do it in workflow, so we built a plugin. Doesn't that mean something? Oh and while I'm on rant mode, could we please have a export but ignore all of the standard AR

OT:Humor Posing issues for the Pub :- Conundrums

2007-06-08 Thread David Sanders
1. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? 2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? 3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? 4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Francois - BTT
Hi Ray, Try the following; - Right Click on web page - Hold down Shift - Select Refresh Remember that you can also cut the fields instead of just un-mapping them. Regards Francois -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Ray M
Hi: That didn't help. This may be related too. I deleted a field from the form and added a new one. I go to the Input mapping. I still see the old field and donot see the new field. How do I force it to refresh. Thanks Ray -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Clements, Paul
Ray, I have had this problem in the past too. The WSDL will update but for some reason seems to take a long time to do so. Clearing out your internet history or refreshing the page (F5) sometimes works but on other occasions it doesn't. There probably is a trick to it but I don't know what it

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Francois - BTT
What I did find as well is, if you want to get the update deployed directly then you have to look at your cache settings. Try flushing the cache. Francois -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clements, Paul Sent:

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Tony Worthington
unless someone thinks they've architected the code better than BMC does? *snicker* -- Tony Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 262-703-5911 Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 06/07/2007 08:27 PM Please respond to

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
Yeah, it does say somethat that all of the competing products (ESS, ExpertDesk, Kinetic, Entuition, etc.) use tons less workflow to accomplish the same thing that ITSM does. Not saying that any of those are better or worse, just more tightly architected. Rick _ From: Action Request

Re: Archive Form Invalid

2007-06-08 Thread Reiser, John J
Ron, I was hoping that the Archive feature would keep the forms in sync but it appears that there is a definite problem. I don't know why I never actually used workflow since I use history forms to track changes. I just archive data to .arx files when there are blocks of completed tickets that

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
Sorry, I didn't include the sarcasm tag - didn't think it necessary. :) Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Worthington Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Problem Form User

2007-06-08 Thread Rix
Hi, This is my firt post and i have a question to make. In my application, for some users, in the field Group List of the Form User does not appear more the list of the user groups but the word placeholder. Placeholder isn't a group of the Form Group. Someone can help me to understand the reason?

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Hugo Visser
Agreed, what I ment to say was that the tool is quite allright (at least from my perspective), the way you do stuff with it can make an application more or less complex. But I guess that's the general good input, good output rule :) Hugo On 6/8/07, Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Yeah,

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Terry Bootsma
Axton: Here is a hypothetical answer... :-) Having been hypothetically through this, as of Version 6.0 there was a feature to be able to integrate your application with Remedy's Licensing module. I tried for about 2 months to talk to someone at Remedy to enable this to happen, but I kept

Re: ARS 7.01 P3 - any news ?

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
you are right.. I was sweating at the time.. so I guess I just chickend out.. I only spend an additiona 20 min looking at it.. and said (yipe yipe) get outta dodge pat.. run.. and did.. Great reminder. On 6/8/07, Heider, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** ...One thing that has worked most of

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
The size and position of the diary editor are stored in the ar.ini file so deleting the cache will not fix it. You can open the ar.ini and find the section [Popup Diary Editor] Close All Remedy apps, delete that entire section from the ini, and when you next open the diary editor it should

Re: ARS 7.01 P3 - any news ?

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
Floating license issue is still and issue :at least against a ARS 7.00 P2 server. On 6/8/07, patrick zandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I would share what I saw last night on this patch. Server: Installer would not work properly - Got the connection to the db, saw tables, asked to

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread Joseph Kasell
Mike, We had this happen the other day. Turned out that the vertical size of pop-up window containing the Diary Editor and Diary History fields was too small...we could see the labels Diary Editor and Diary History, but that was it. Apparently the end-user reporting the problem somehow resized

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
great answer.. I was going to thow that out. On 6/8/07, L. J. Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I am able to replicate your 'problem' screen shot by shrinking my window so small there isn't room for the text areas -- *From:* Action Request System discussion

Re: ARS 7.01 P3 - any news ?

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
Just thought I would share what I saw last night on this patch. Server: Installer would not work properly - Got the connection to the db, saw tables, asked to overwrite or upgrade, selected upgrade, It went to the next question userid and password (I think that was next) then it would not

Re: Administrator performance slow -RESOLVED

2007-06-08 Thread Jarl Grøneng
SW00254838: Log File tab takes 10-15 minutes to appear when Group form contains 50,000+ groups Answer: As Designed Yes its probably is, but why not redesign? -- Jarl On 6/6/07, Axton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As designed I hear this a lot on the list these days... maybe bmc needs a

Accidentally installed email engine as root

2007-06-08 Thread Dwayne Martin
Hello everyone, (ARS 7.01 patch 2, Red-Hat Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) I installed the AR System as non-root remedy user. Then I changed to root to give remedy permission to everything he needed to install the Email Engine. But I forgot to switch back to remedy before doing install.

Re: Accidentally installed email engine as root

2007-06-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Did you make sure there were no remedy processes running as root before you tried to start the system up from user remedy? The shutdown failed messages seem to suggest that Monitor and ServerD were still running as root when you tried to restart. Also double check the etc/arsystem files for

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread Bruce Scott
I've seen things like this before where the .arf files have become corrupt. try deleting the *.arf and *.arv files from the system used for the demonstration, especially if no one else is seeing that issue. Bruce _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread L. J. Head
I am able to replicate your 'problem' screen shot by shrinking my window so small there isn't room for the text areas _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kendhammer, Mike Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:24 AM To:

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread Kendhammer, Mike
I thought of that just after I hit the send... Being that she is somewhere in Europe right now, I probably won't hear back from her until Monday... So thanks everyone for the quick help! Mike From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Accidentally installed email engine as root

2007-06-08 Thread Igor Model
Martin, Check permissions on the /etc/arsystem folder where your armonior.conf file resides. Igor From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Dwayne Martin Sent: Fri 6/8/2007 10:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Accidentally

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread Kendhammer, Mike
Bruce, I didn't even think about deleting the .arf and .arv files. I'll have her do that. L.J., I was able to shrink it down as well. It must have opened like that then for her. Here's hoping that deleting those files will fix it so that it will open normally. Thanks guys!

Re: ARS 7.01 P3 - any news ?

2007-06-08 Thread Heider, Stephen
...One thing that has worked most of the time for me when the Installer does not accept the Remedy login username/password is to clear out the password for the Demo user and uncheck Cross Ref Blank Password. I then use the Demo username when prompted by the Installer. After the Installer

Re: Diary Field Issue

2007-06-08 Thread L. J. Head
I'm not sure if deleting the arf and arv files will clear this one up...because the size of that window is stored either in the ar.ini or in the preferences form just like column width and such... _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Server Group question

2007-06-08 Thread Robert Halstead
We just successfully got our server group up and running. However, we're not seeing the two servers in the Server Ranking form, we're only seeing the one remprd server name which happens to be the server group name. We were confused on setting a server-connect-name in the ar.conf when we were

Service Desk 7 - Escalations

2007-06-08 Thread Doornbos, Mark
Hi again, We've installed Service Desk 7.0 and we are also using the midtier. What I find mind boggling is that escalations are not built into the Incident/Problem management application. It appears that one would have to purchase the SLM application to make escalations functional on the

Re: US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Ray T.
I see incredible resistance to share info. Two replies I got (one good one) put the range at US$25-$150/hr, but note the unscientific and insufficient sampling. It's probably a realistic range, because people were talking about their observations, not their rates. By my own estimate, $55-$125 is

Re: Service Desk 7 - Escalations

2007-06-08 Thread strauss
You are spot on - they dropped the escalations along with the asset tracking and change tasking features in Help Desk 2 or 3 through 6. By itself, Service Desk (Incident and Problem Management) in no way replaces the old Help Desk application; far too many functions were completely dropped and

Re: Service Desk 7 - Escalations

2007-06-08 Thread Doornbos, Mark
*sigh* :-( Thanks Chris. mjd -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of strauss Sent: June 8, 2007 10:37 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Service Desk 7 - Escalations ** You are spot on - they dropped the

OT - RE- US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Sanford, Claire
Ray, It could be because you are using a basically Anon account and maybe people don't know who Ray T. is??? Who is Ray T? Are you on a Milk Carton somewhere? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray T.

Re: Accidentally installed email engine as root

2007-06-08 Thread Axton
# chown -R remedyuser:remedygroup /path/to/remedy Axton Grams On 6/8/07, Dwayne Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, (ARS 7.01 patch 2, Red-Hat Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) I installed the AR System as non-root remedy user. Then I changed to root to give remedy permission to

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Cleereman (IT)
Hi Ray, I've had this problem in the past. If you go to the mapping for your web service, you should be able to right click each of your unmapped elements. If you cut them, they should then be removed from your WSDL. If they are still not, try flushing your cache on you Mid-Tier server.

Managing log files

2007-06-08 Thread Reiser, John J
Hello Listers, I was looking in the List archives for threads concerning automation of log files. I want to run log files and shut them off at midnight, save the .log.bak to a unique name and turn the log back on again. And, No, this is not my attempt at Friday Humor. Can anyone point me in the

Re: Hypothetical

2007-06-08 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Axton, I've thought about this too for a long time. Maybe your best bet in your situation would be to have an Enterprise type license to your product, so the client only buys the core ARS licenses. Your product price could be based on the size/revenue of the client. For that information, you

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

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Off hand I don't know. CMDB is completely new to us so we've never had the privilege of running the old utility. - Don -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:45 PM To:

Re: Managing log files

2007-06-08 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Try This Use the Configuration ARDBC form (it is a Vendor form that looks at the ar.conf file). Push 0 to Debug-mode's value to turn off the logs. Do your rename of the logs and then push your original value to turn them back on. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: OT - RE- US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Ray T.
Claire, I am in my corner of the world, which might as well be a milk carton for you or anything else you fancy. I didn't think I was indicting anybody in particular, but just making an observation. Thanks for adding to the conversation and with a literary flair. Thanks to those who replied

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

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

Re: Managing log files

2007-06-08 Thread Reiser, John J
Fred, I knew there was an answer out there. Thanks! that works like a charm. John J. Reiser Software Development Analyst Remedy Administrator/Developer Lockheed Martin - MS2 The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. -

Re: Accidentally installed email engine as root SOLVED

2007-06-08 Thread Dwayne Martin
Thanks, Igor, Axton and Fred. As Fred suggested, I had a set of ar processes still running as root, that remedy didn't have permission to kill. When I logged in as root and killed them then remedy was able to restart the system. Also the log files are now owned by remedy. Gratefully yours,

macro in background

2007-06-08 Thread Drew Shuller
Hello ars listers, I'm trying to run a macro from the command line that will find and update a record while running in the background. I'm wondering if this is possible. I have a macro that runs in the background and creates a record using a submit action. I have another macro that queries

Re: macro in background

2007-06-08 Thread L. J. Head
You might want to look at doing this in a Perl script attached with ARSPerl -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: macro in

Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread Bowen, Marc
Does anyone know if it is possible within ARS to show text when the mouse hoovers over a field? ARS 7.01 Solaris 5.10 Oracle 10 Thanks in advance Marc Bowen Remedy Skilled Professional [EMAIL PROTECTED] html body

Re: Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread William Rentfrow
And here I thought you meant the mouse was being presidential: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:13 PM To:

Re: Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread Heider, Stephen
In Mid Tier? Yes Search the List for tooltips, or click here http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=716local=yquery=tooltips Stephen From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bowen, Marc Sent: Friday,

Re: Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
I didn't know that Remedy could work as a vacuum cleaner. Did you mean hover, as in mouseover? Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bowen, Marc Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:05 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Hoover

Re: Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread Timothy Powell
As I recall, it can only happen in Mid-Tier and if the user has a User Preference defined with an Accessible Mode of Screen Magnifier/Low Vision. Tim _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heider, Stephen Sent: Friday, June 08,

Re: Hoover Text

2007-06-08 Thread Timothy Powell
That ishappens automatically without any other action on the dev side. tp _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Powell Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:41 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Hoover Text ** As I

Re: AREmail and performance questions

2007-06-08 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
There are several things you can do to speed up emails. We have tuned ours so that it can send between 300-500 per minute. We reach those levels several times a day. We can get 1000 per minute if server load is low and the emails do not contain ARTask attachments. Here are a few things you can

Modified long - to - clob in oracle : Crystal report ?

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
Modified fields in remedy / from long's to clobs, made names and fieldid's the same. now on the CR the data does not show up ? is there something special on this side of a Clob? no data showing up.. I can rebuild if I have too.. but was wondering on the quick solution side. thanks.. will

Re: OT - RE- US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
Any Remedy professional who works as a contract individual for $25/hr in the U.S. should be beaten with hoses, just for screwing up the market for the rest of us. But that rate could be a decent one in other places. Which illustrates why you can't get good data on this topic - it's too dependent

Re: Modified long - to - clob in oracle : Crystal report ?

2007-06-08 Thread patrick zandi
thanks On 6/8/07, Ben Cantatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** You need to bring the report up in CR and select Database\Verify Database. That should make crystal update its fields to the correct data type. That should fix it, but on the outside chance it doesn't, Database\set Data source

Re: Modifying a Webservice: unmapped fields keep showing up in the WSDL.

2007-06-08 Thread Sharma, Tarun
Ray, Similar thing was happened with me. After doing change, see again in web service object- GoTo WSDL- click view and then see removed elements should not be therein WSDL. If you are seeing any old image of WSDL in that case cache should be removed properly. Once you have done changes do not

Re: Modified long - to - clob in oracle : Crystal report ?

2007-06-08 Thread Ben Cantatore
You need to bring the report up in CR and select Database\Verify Database. That should make crystal update its fields to the correct data type. That should fix it, but on the outside chance it doesn't, Database\set Data source location should definately fix it. Ben Cantatore Remedy

Re: OT - RE- US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Thad K Esser
Didn't Kinetic used to do an annual survey of arslist to get demographic data on the Remedy workplace (and to show off Kinetic Survey)? Or did I dream that? Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-06-08 Thread Roger Justice
If you look at Asset 6 and compare it to Asset 7 you will see minimal differences except for the major change in CMDB Classes. I would assume you will see this in the future. -Original Message- From: Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 8 Jun

Re: Automatic Relationships

2007-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
Chris, sorry for the delay, I was cleaning out some items I was going to get to later, and I just got to this one, which I am trying to deal with as well. There is the BMC:Asset_People form that seems to be what the CMDB looks at for the combination. Check out the Asset table field on the

Paul Thill/DS/MICORP is out of the office.

2007-06-08 Thread Paul Thill
I will be out of the office starting 06/08/2007 and will not return until 06/11/2007. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are

Server Pointing to new database is giving timeout errors during startup

2007-06-08 Thread Emad Zaky
Helll Listers, I installed the following: AR Server 7.0.1 Patch 2, Service Desk 7.0, Change 7.0,, SLM 7.0.3 successfully on a server, and I am setting load balancing. I turned the server off, copied the server to a new machine, changed the references in the files and started the server. It

Re: OT - RE- US Contract Rates?

2007-06-08 Thread Axton
This was not a dream at all. If I remember correctly, they do it once a year or so. Maybe it's getting to be time again? Maybe it should be extended to collect job type/duration/rate/etc as well, anonymously, of course? Axton Grams On 6/8/07, Thad K Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Didn't

Re: Server Group question

2007-06-08 Thread Magesh N
Robert, We are currently using Server Grouping in a Load Balancing environment. In a Server Group environment, you need to configure the Server-Name parameter to the Server Group Alias. Then there is a Server-Connect-Name which should contain the name of the individual server . Assuming that

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

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

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

2007-06-08 Thread Savant, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roger: Thanks for the heads up, we're moving from 5.0 to 7.0 and therefore never had the opportunity to enjoy Asset 6. From our perspective, it seemed odd that they would provide better CI searching in the other modules but not in Asset itself. If a change is not already underway, perhaps an