Re: Group corruption problem after ARS7.1 patch2 SLM installation

2008-05-13 Thread ITSM Support
Prashant Patil wrote: ** Dear All, Config: OS - Solaris10 DB - Oracle 10gR2 ARS 7.1 patch002 ServiceDesk 7.0.02 I am facing problems with Administartor and Sub Administrator Remedy groups. Whenever I login with Demo or appadmin I am receiving error: Error generating application list field

Re: Group corruption problem after ARS7.1 patch2 SLM installation

2008-05-13 Thread ITSM Support
Hi Prashant, The problem is with your server settings. Go to Server Information-Configuration in User tool, check the server settings for Default Home Page. This field should be set to Home Page from the drop down menu. Also, verify the syntax server_name.application_name in character

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Part of the problem is that there are no good answers to your questions. By default, we put things in the BMC_ComputerSystem class, unless it fits in somewhere else. So a Blackberry technically is a computer, just a tiny one. So is a calculator. Stuff that doesn't have a class and isn't

Re: ADV:Sustainable IT Infrastructure Compliance

2008-05-13 Thread Ramy S. Ayoub
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Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Thank you Shawn for your reply.My concern is, and this is what I have heard from BMC, when designing your Product categories, you need to think ahead to the design of the CMDB as well. It's all interrelated and affects reporting, trending analysis etc.I find it very difficult to design my

ITSM 7 + Dedicated Solaris midtier Java Heap Size on Solaris?

2008-05-13 Thread William Rentfrow
I know this issue has been dealt with numerous times over the years. We're running IM 7.03, SLM 7.1 on ARS 7.1. We are getting the typical java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space errors - obviously we need to increase it. We are in a large environment and we're running dedicated Solaris

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, it’s not that difficult to map your Product Categories to where they are useful for Asset Management, CMDB, and the rest of ITSM. From what I’ve seen with the CMDB and categorizations, it’s best to follow the K.I.S.S. method. I made a new class in CMDB 1 that ended up being a huge

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Well,I find it very disturbing from what Shawn stated - "Part of the problem is that there are no good answers to your questions"If the CMDB is really suppose to be the center of the Universe for ITSM, as it shows so well in the BMC literature, how can there be no real good answers?And if ITSM

Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Drake,Dave
Hi all, I've got about a thousand people records that I need to remove the asset admin licenses they were previously assigned, and replace those with Asset Viewers instead. Any pointers greatly appreciated! ;) ARS 7.0.1 p002, ITSM 7.0.1 p003, CMDB 2.0.1 p002, SQL 2K, Win2K3 servers Dave Drake,

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Decou, Candace M
Dave - not sure if this is correct in your version, but in 7.1.0 you can look for the form called CTM:People Permission Groups You should be able to query on that form where Permission Group = Asset User and then do a modify all to change those to Asset Viewer. I'm guessing that in 7.0.1 it is

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Roger Justice
The entries are held in CTM:People Permission Groups you should be able to make the chage you need with a modify all. -Original Message- From: Drake,Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:38 am Subject: Asset Admin license removals Hi all, I've got

Re: Data types not appropriate for arithmitic operation

2008-05-13 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
** Hello Drew I have found that if you push a 0 length field into a char field with a length of say 255 chars, even though the field contains a single character it will give you this error. check the field lengths of the fields you are pushing and the field you are pushing into. that is the only

Re: Data types not appropriate for arithmitic operation

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
In the past, with older versions, I did this once. It caused a buffer overflow and crashed the server. I have checked it on newer versions and it no longer does this. I have not experienced the error he is having, but it's worth a look. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr., RSP Remedy Engineer Leader

RES: Data types not appropriate for arithmitic operation

2008-05-13 Thread Tadeu Augusto Dutra Pinto
Hi, Try to use ' in your $SRVR_STRT_STP_INSTR_DESC?$ and $SRVR_FUNCTN_DESC$ Like these: '$SRVR_STRT_STP_INSTR_DESC?$' '$SRVR_FUNCTN_DESC$' Att, Tadeu De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) em nome de Drew Shuller Enviada: ter 13/5/2008 13:20

Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Heinzel, Jamie
I'm looking for some assistance in importing from a csv into HPD:HelpDesk to create tickets as part of a batch process when a new user is set up. I have the import working, but it doesn't seem that the tickets are showing up in Remedy User. They show up if I do a search for open tickets, but they

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3 (U)

2008-05-13 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
UNCLASSIFIED Does you import set the SCHEMA fields? Sandra Hennigan OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator Office # 703-602-2525 x248 Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Rick Cook
The support console is sourced in the SHR:ConsolidatedList form. You will need to look at the workflow that pushes to there when a Help Desk record is created, and ensure that workflow fires when you import your tickets. Rick On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Heinzel, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Phil Murnane
Jamie: What version of Help Desk are you on? Thanks, --Phil - Original Message From: Heinzel, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:01:18 AM Subject: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3 ** I’m looking for some assistance in importing from a csv

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3 (U)

2008-05-13 Thread Heinzel, Jamie
I suppose it would have helped to attach what I'm mapping currently. Thanks in advance, Jamie -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:15 PM To:

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Pulsen
** Thanks Phil,I wasn't being sardonic.We have a non-IT support group that maintains non-IT related products (light bulbs, etc) they do however use Remedy.The point I have overlooked is that ITIL relies so much on IT only products, that the ITSM suite really excludes all other non-IT departments

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread David Charters
Have you tried using the ITSM data imort tool? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Phil Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:28 To:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3 ** Jamie: What version of

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Phil Murnane
Kevin: I'm not sure if you're just being sardonic, but in case you're not; light bulbs would be bulk assets (as would any item that has no distinguishing attributes within its class). --Phil - Original Message From: Kevin Pulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent:

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3 (U)

2008-05-13 Thread Decou, Candace M
Jamie - Rick and David and everyone are right, but if you have already imported the data and you do see it in the HelpDesk form, try performing a modify on one of the tickets and see if it pushes the values to the underlying SHR:ConsolidateList form. If so it might be easier for you to just do

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Parrish
To Rick's point: The issue you are running into, I believe, is that none of the filter workflow associated with generating a help desk ticket executes on merge, therefore, the SHR:ConsolidatedList form isn't going to be populated. If this is going to be an ongoing process you will need to modify

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Heinzel, Jamie
No this is going to be an ongoing process. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do it, so all options are on the table. I think it's obvious from my posts that I'm fairly new to Remedy. This is part of a larger automation project that I'm working on and scripted creation of Remedy

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Parrish
Jamie, Without knowing all of the ins and outs of your environment and exactly what you are trying to do it's hard to say what the best route may be, but if it were me, I would probably create a Display Only staging form with just the fields that are being imported. I would have workflow that

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When I said is that there are no good answers, I should have qualified that. There are no good answers if you want a simple, broad, overreaching solution. Even with ITIL as a framework, you have to come up with your own answers to the questions. I see ITIL as almost a philosophy based around

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Drake,Dave
Aye, I can use an escalation to modify the CTM:People Permission Group entries, but that doesn't seem to affect the User form records -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Decou, Candace M Sent: Tuesday, May 13,

Test (please ignore)

2008-05-13 Thread Mukbil, Saleh
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Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You know, you could always go to your management and tell them that the I.T. in ITSM and ITIL stands for Information Technology, and that there may be bigger risks involved in trying to make the ITSM suite have all the functionality they need for non-I.T. related things. Remedy is great for

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Decou, Candace M
H - well then I might recommend that you snoop around some of the filters that fire on Modify from the CTM:People Permission Group form - may be in the range of the CTM:PPG:UpdateGroupList filters. See if you can modify or figure out how to make those fire correctly to reset values in the

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Drake,Dave
Awesome! Thank you -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Decou, Candace M Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:32 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Asset Admin license removals H - well then I might recommend

Re: Import into HPD:HelpDesk ARS 6.3

2008-05-13 Thread Heinzel, Jamie
Thanks for all your help and guidance on this, I'll try what you said and see how it goes. Jamie From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Parrish Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:49 PM To:

Populating CMDDB by discovery....how?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Copits
I'm new to 7.x and have a test system that I'm building. I just finished installing the integration engine. I've read sort of spotty references to being able to do discovery of assets on a network. But, I have found nothing in the manuals under discovery - or in the Master Index. We have an

Re: Populating CMDDB by discovery....how?

2008-05-13 Thread Roger Justice
No built in tool. If you go to http://developer.bmc.com/bmcdn/bmcdn/landing.jsf you can download the SMS integration that is free. THe manuals are included. -Original Message- From: Richard Copits [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, 13 May 2008 1:51 pm Subject:

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Decou, Candace M
My pleasure - keep us posted. :) Candace DeCou DOI Remedy Systems Analyst Verizon Business Office: (408) 371-1112 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verizon Business - global capability, personal accountability. This e-mail is strictly confidential and intended only for use by the addressee

Re: Asset Admin license removals

2008-05-13 Thread Doug Blair
Dave, I think you're probably better off creating new people permission group records for the new permission and then modifying the existing records for the old permission. The contents of the z1D_Action field control what happens to the Application License field on the User form. Take a look

Re: Populating CMDDB by discovery....how?

2008-05-13 Thread Richard Copits
Great! Thank you!! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:58 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Populating CMDDB by discoveryhow? ** No built in tool. If you go to

Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread T. Dee
I wanted to add another field (Change Type) to one of the out of the box Notifications, so I added the field to: SYS:Form Field Selection The field shows up in the pull down menu in SYS:Notification Messages - however, when the notification goes out it is just showing as #Change Type#. Any

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread Lisa Westerfield
I've found that there are additional filters that translate the #fieldname# from the SYS:form into the $fieldname$ variables that we're use to seeing. For example, take a look at this filter: NTE:SHR:TranslateNotificationMessageINC1_100 It very well could be the one that you need to modify for

email question

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
I am doing a notify filter that uses email. On the Recipient line, I'm specifying a mix of field values and groups. I currently have the recipient set as: $Originator$; Finance; Contracts; $data_Purchaser$ Originator and data_Purchaser fields, Finance and Contracts are groups. I want the

Re: Data types not appropriate for arithmitic operation

2008-05-13 Thread Arner, Todd
I have had trouble in the past using the / symbol in the name. My fix was to remove the / from the name. It shouldn't matter since the / is enclosed in quotes, but I have seen this cause the error you are getting. Todd Arner -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread T. Dee
Thanks Lisa - I found the one for Change NTE:SHR:TranslateNotificationMessageCRQ1_125 and it does have a translation for #Change Type#, but it is not working. Any other suggestions? Thanks again. Ty On 5/13/08, Lisa Westerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that there are additional

Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread strauss
It has become evident that the ITSM 7 application does not, in fact, implement multi-tenancy properly, only a faint shadow of it. We had been led to believe in all of our discussions with engineers at two different UserWorlds (and had not been able to disprove it in testing) that the permissions

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread William Rentfrow
We did it but not through group 112. The reason we chose to go that was strategic - we do not know what changes BMC will make in future versions to break whatever we customized. Instead we did it through Dynamic Groups + workflow. In the end it was pretty slick and conditional. Contact me

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread Feliciano, Ferdinand, A (Rocky)
Create a workflow on modify that will set the value of field 112 to $group1$ + $group2$ + $group3$. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: ITSM 7, CMDB CI and Product Definitions

2008-05-13 Thread Victor
The problem with Categorization Subclasses is that you cannot introduce new attributes with different permission group. In cases where, for example, it is not acceptable for server servicing group to change PC configurations which is the domain of PC servicing group you cannot put everything

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread Lisa Westerfield
Hhmm... If I were sure that there was a value in that change record for Change Type, the only next step I would take would be to log it and ensure that the Z field is getting set as the filter indicates. Other than that, I don't have any more rabbits up my sleeve - sorry. -Original

Value too large for the meta table FIELD_DISPROP table!!!

2008-05-13 Thread Joe DeSouza
I got this strange error when the SLM install script was trying to import one of the views. This is strange considering that a value being inserted into a meta data table should not have technically overshot the column length.. Failure during SQL operation to the database: ORA-12899: value too

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread J.T. Shyman
Chris, In my experiments with ITSM 7.0.3 Patch 7 I've found that field 112 on HPD:Help Desk will get set with multiple values if the option Enable Multiple Assign Groups is turned on for the AR Server. Additionally, I've found that field 112 gets set with the company values from

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread strauss
That seemed the most obvious solution - I just wondered if anyone had done it and had success, i.e., not found serious flaws in it where it would break something else. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center

Re: email question

2008-05-13 Thread Joe DeSouza
Earlier versions of the email engine needed a line seperator for each entity in the notify list.. I think pre ARS 6.x versions of the email engine.. What version are you on? Joe - Original Message From: Gary Opela (Corporate) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread strauss
This server and all of my test servers along the way have always been set to Enable Multiple Assign Groups at birth. I know it is working because we have run into another idiosyncrasy where my data manager had copied to new several support staff records from customer records (only the login name

Re: Value too large for the meta table FIELD_DISPROP table!!!

2008-05-13 Thread Walters, Mark
Joe, Is this a Unicode ARS installation and which platform is it on? Does the view contain accented characters? If so it may be that the NLS_LANG is not set correctly - for Unicode systems it should end .AL32UTF8 Mark Walters The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of

Re: Field 112 control in ITSM 7

2008-05-13 Thread J.T. Shyman
As a general rule I try to avoid using copy to new unless it is a form I developed. Too many of the OOB forms either have a field that is part of a unique index (which prevents the new record from being saved at all) or a field that controls something like security gets copied and probably

Kristin S Lowe/Paramus/IBM

2008-05-13 Thread Kristin S Lowe
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Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Shaffer
Which notification are you trying to add the Change Type field to? I have added it to the Approval notifications and all I had to do was add the following set field to the filter , NTE:SHR:TranslateNotificationMessageAPR_135. Set zID Translation Text to REPLACE($zID Translation Text$,

Re: Question: SYS:Notification Messages

2008-05-13 Thread Murtuza B
Hi, I have a doc that describes in detail how to add a new field to a notification. I thk I got it on the BMC support site. It is primarily for ITSP 4.0, but the ITSM 7 notification workflow originates from there, so it should be similiar. Lemme know of an email ID if you need it, since its =~

Gaurav Jaidka/OR2/AEPIN is out of the office.

2008-05-13 Thread Gaurav Jaidka
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