server crashing when consuming a web servie

2008-11-21 Thread Darshana Jivan [MTN Network Solutions]
Hi, Please can someone assist me in understanding what this error actually means? I am trying to consume as web service and it seems that the server is crashing when invoking the service. Below is the error log. NISDEV07 is failing with the following in the arerror.log: Thu Nov

problems with ARS 6.01 using sybase

2008-11-21 Thread Remedy Maniac
dear list, simple conf: ARSystem 6.00.01 patch 1454 Sybase 12.5.3 Solaris 8 for few days now I have problems just starting the ars server at start I get two errors: 1- ct_close(FORCE): user api layer: 2- ld.so.1: /opt/remedy/bin/arplugin: fatal: libjvm.so: We tried on the command line to run

database connection fails

2008-11-21 Thread Remedy Maniac
hello list, when trying to start the server I get the follow error: 390600 : Cannot initialize contact with SQL database (ARERR 551) Has anybody ever seen this? Any idea? Thanks Serouche ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access

Re: Server Install

2008-11-21 Thread Walters, Mark
This will upgrade the database structure but, as pointed out, it won't import the updated definitions for the core forms - User, Group and so on. If you really don't want to run the installer on one of the new production machines I'd suggest you use a temporary system. Run the installer

St-Pierre Patrick I625ST/Levis/GVDL est absent(e).

2008-11-21 Thread Patrick St-Pierre
Je serai absent(e) à partir du 2008-11-21 de retour le 2008-11-24. ___ Le présent message est destiné uniquement aux personnes indiquées dans l'en-tête. Il contient des informations confidentielles qui ne peuvent être divulguées à des tiers sans que l'expéditeur ait

Re: server crashing when consuming a web servie

2008-11-21 Thread Walters, Mark
Yes, the server is crashing . The stack below matches that for arserver defect SW00288690, which is fixed in 7.0.1 patch 8. Mark Walters The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this e-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My

Re: database connection fails

2008-11-21 Thread White, Michael W (MIKE)
I'd take the message at face value,i.e. check to see if the database is up/running. If it's not up, I'd look into why (check database log files). If it is up, I'd look into why Remedy can't connect - recent changes, for example. Especially database changes (such as Remedy id's password). Mike

Re: problems with ARS 6.01 using sybase

2008-11-21 Thread Howard Richter
Serouche, Some time ago (about 2 to 2 2/1 years ago) I remember some issue with sybase and Remedy 6.0 and it was a sybase issue (something about some libs that were changed on a Sybase patch). Maybe if you have a BMC support contract you can contact them and they could look it up. Howard On

Re: problems with ARS 6.01 using sybase

2008-11-21 Thread Remedy Maniac
** yes we have a BMC support contract and we are looking into this together with the reseller. But up to now everything we tried didn't work Howard Richter wrote: ** Serouche, Some time ago (about 2 to 2 2/1 years ago) I remember some issue with sybase and Remedy 6.0 and it was a

OT:Friday (Holiday) Humour

2008-11-21 Thread Gidd
Martha Stewart's Christmas To-Do List December 1: Blanch carcass from Thanksgiving turkey. Spray paint gold, turn upside down and use as sleigh to hold Christmas Cards. December 2: Have Mormon Tabernacle Choir record outgoing Christmas message for answering machine. December 3: Using

Re: Update/Resend Re: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Bookers
For anyone still playing at home, the reinstall of AR Server did not help (on the positive side, it did not make anything worse). On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Bill Bookers [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I had replied to both Fred and Joe, but I never saw my messages go through. My aplogies if

Re: Single Sign On (SSO) Issue

2008-11-21 Thread Begosh, Kevin
The issue I was having with this was related to Tomcat using authentication and not letting IIS handle it. It was fixed but added the following line to the server.xml file under tomcat for the connector I was using, tomcatAuthentication=false that way it uses IIS and not tomcat. SSO is

Re: CTM:People Permission Group synchronization with 'Group List'

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Perrault
Alan/Jonathan, Alan is exactly correct. When you create the People record you should push to the people permission group record and the z1D Action field should get a value of START pushed to it along with the other values that are needed. See filter: CTM:PPL:SetUnrestrictedAccess_600_PPPG as an

Re: Update/Resend Re: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Out of curiosity ... You said in an earlier message the Database Input Length was 4 on the form for that column. What happens when you change it to 5 (or 15)? Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Bookers Sent: Friday, November

Re: Update/Resend Re: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Bookers
We had considered that, but stopped short of trying it. In SQL, for the external table, under column properties it says data type = int, length = 4; in the Admin tool, it shows this field with a field length of 15. This is how it's supposed to be, and it works this way on other servers, so we've

Indirect reference to form field value

2008-11-21 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Folks, I am seeking some assistance in referencing the value of a form field through an indirect reference. I have a filter guide that contain a loop to process a number of fields on the form. I am using this to detect which fields have been modified and to build a diary entry containing the

Re: Indirect reference to form field value

2008-11-21 Thread Frank Caruso
Not sure if this function was available in v5 but what about run process command: Application-Copy-Field-Value On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:35 AM, L G Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I am seeking some assistance in referencing the value of a form field through an indirect

Re: Indirect reference to form field value

2008-11-21 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Frank, Unfortunately, this process is not available in version 5. But thanks for the suggestion. Larry On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Frank Caruso wrote: ** Not sure if this function was available in v5 but what about run process command: Application-Copy-Field-Value On Fri, Nov 21,

RESOLVED Re: Server Install

2008-11-21 Thread Frank Caruso
Excellent suggestions from all. I think I like the idea of just using another host. Will give that a try. Thank you On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Walters, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** This will upgrade the database structure but, as pointed out, it won't import the updated

Re: Oracle Cursor Sharing in ARS7.1

2008-11-21 Thread Begosh, Kevin
Does added this to the ar.conf file speed up process from a users perspective as well, querying the DB, creating tickets etc Kevin Begosh, RSP Tech Ops Enterprise Business Services 301-791-3540 Phone 410-422-3623 Cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Update/Resend Re: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Bookers
Just noticed a difference in the problematic database vs. another server that works: 1. In SQL, right click on the database server (at the top of the tree) 2. Go to General 3. Look at Server Collation. 1. In Production (and on Development) this says

Where are stored the Remedy Objects in the Database?

2008-11-21 Thread Alberto Mel.
Hi all!, A question about the Remedys Database, in an Oracle 10g over Linux (Novell Suse), anybody knows where the objects (tables, tablespaces, etc) are stored in the Database? Is there any object in the Sys schema?, in this case what's the name of this objects? Thanks in advance! Alberto

SQL Reporing Services - making sense of Remedy Table structure

2008-11-21 Thread npeterson
I am hoping to user SQL Reporting services to create some Remedy reports, however I can not make one bit of sense of the tables in this Database. We are using Remedy IT Service Management 7.0 - DB is on SQL server 2005. A sample report would just be count all tickets currently assigned to a

Re: CTM:People Permission Group synchronization with 'Group List'

2008-11-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Matt/Alan, So building on the advice below, I've created a filter in which I also on new/modify of a people record, I want to push an entry into CTM:People Permission Group. What I would like to do update the access restrictions for any new/existing record to a specific Company by using a filter

Re: SQL Reporing Services - making sense of Remedy Table structure

2008-11-21 Thread Drew Shuller
npeterson, query the views instead. Or look for the Database Guide in the documentation. Drew ERCOT I am hoping to user SQL Reporting services to create some Remedy reports, however I can not make one bit of sense of the tables in this Database. We are using Remedy IT Service Management 7.0 -

Re: Single Sign On (SSO) Issue

2008-11-21 Thread sivarama velicheti
Hi Kevin, I had that in tomcat before you mentioned it. But still does not seem to be working for me. What do you have as your authentication chaning mode I wonder?? I have IIS to use the integrated windows login but somehow it does not seem to pick that up. Thanks Siva -

Re: Single Sign On (SSO) Issue

2008-11-21 Thread Begosh, Kevin
well there are a slew of things that could be wrong. If you could send me some logs that might help. Kevin Begosh, RSP Tech Ops Enterprise Business Services 301-791-3540 Phone 410-422-3623 Cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From:

SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Ramey, Anne
I need to start a service target based on time: ex. 30 minutes after a ticket was created. I can't seem to make this happen. It only goes from attached to In Progess if the ticket is modified. Help? Current criteria: ($\TIMESTAMP$ ( 'Submit Date' + (30*60))) AND 'Status' Resolved Anne

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Perrault
Anne, I think you may be crossing things here. You want the service target attached to the ticket based on some different criteria (Priority, Support Group, for example). When you start talking time you might want to look at the Mile Stones and defining them from a stand point of time. It sounds

Re: SQL Reporing Services - making sense of Remedy Table structure

2008-11-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I haven't used SSRS much, but I do recall that it is more difficult to report off of applications like Remedy than .NET applications. The reason being that Remedy doesn't store foreign keys and such to relate to other tables in the DBMS, rather storing relationships like that in the

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Ramey, Anne
Actually that's not what we are trying to do. What management wants to do is make sure that a ticket is updated every 30 minutes. They want to have a missed or met result of every 30 minute interval available. I don't think I can do that with milestomes. So I need to start one target

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread strauss
Your criteria looks like it should be set in the Measurement Criteria: Start When: $\TIMESTAMP$ ( 'Submit Date' + (30*60)) Stop When: 'Status' = Resolved And the Milestones would be at: 'Status' Resolved Maybe the Start When will work better as $\TIMESTAMP$ = ( 'Submit Date' + (30*60)) Since

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread strauss
You should be able to set the milestone to repeat (and fire an action) every 30 minutes as long as the Execute If condition continues to be met. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Ramey, Anne
He actually wants a missed or met result in SLM for each time interval. The only way I know how to do that is with separate targets. The only way to gain that with milestones that I know of would have a separate form that stored missed or met that the milestone pushed data to, but they he

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Perrault
Anne, Actually that would be 1 Service Target with multiple Milestones. As you can define a Milestone to start after a certain period of time and have it repeat. How about something like: 1 Service target first Mile Stone that fires 1 minute after Start Repeats 10 times every 3 minutes Execute

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Ramey, Anne
How does this give you a missed or met result any where in the SLM module that you can then report off of? Anne Ramey *** E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Perrault
ugg, Ya that sounds like a report requirement. I thought there was a way to review met/missed milestones though... Strauss, you know of how/where to do that? Matt P. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramey, Anne Sent: Friday, November

Re: SLM start when advise -update

2008-11-21 Thread Ramey, Anne
I think this should work: Goal: 1 hr. Start When: 'Status' = New Stop When: 'Status' = Resolved OR (($\TIMESTAMP$ ( 'Submit Date' + (30*60))) AND ('Last Modified Date' ( 'Submit Date' + (30*60) ))) For the second interval, and it will be: Goal: 1 hr. 30 Min. Start When: 'Status' = New Stop

Re: SLM start when advise

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Perrault
Sorry Anne, I was writing what is below and sent it before I saw your other email: Ya that sounds like a report requirement. I thought there was a way to review met/missed milestones though... Strauss, you know of how/where to do that? Matt P.

Friday Humor: Carol for 2008

2008-11-21 Thread Joe D'Souza
I thought this was funny considering our current economics times.. You'd better watch out You'd better not cry You'd better keep cash I'm telling you why: Recession is coming to town. It's hitting you once, It's hitting you twice It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise Recession is

Re: Where are stored the Remedy Objects in the Database?

2008-11-21 Thread Joe D'Souza
If you have stuck to defaults and let the installation of the server create its own database and its user, the tablespace name is ARSystem and the user name is ARAdmin with a default password of AR#Admin# So to answer your question, in the default scenario, the Remedy objects are all stored in

Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Mac Rhoades
First, my environment: ARS 6.3 ITSM 6.0 (HelpDesk, Asset Management, Change Management) Some Custom Apps SQL Server 2000 IIS I have seen these items may be possible from various previous list emails but wanted to get some current information and advice. 1. My company would like to

Re: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Roger Justice
ARS 7 is the first release that is supported on VM Ware. Previous releases will not be provided support if issues occure. -Original Message- From: Mac Rhoades [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 3:55 pm Subject: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for

Re: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Mac Rhoades
Roger, Thanks and I appreciate the quick answer. I do know that is not supported by BMC but my question for both the VMWare and SQL 2005 is whether or not anybody has it working. If I can get it working and then have some issues, I know that I would be on my own as far as BMC support is

Re: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Charles Baldi
And don't try to use it in production. Still significant performance impacts. We have QA and production environments that are identical except that QA is all VMs and Prod is native OS. Prod performance screams while QA is unacceptably sluggish (if it wer a production system). Regards, Chuck

Can’t resize form view

2008-11-21 Thread Dwayne Martin
Dear List, We have a Display-Only, Standard form that we use for dialogs. It has several views, most of which appear normally in the User tool. But two of the views (one is a copy of the other) are elongated horizontally. And no matter how often we re-size them in the Admin tool, they stay

Re: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Roger Justice
All of the Flight Decks that BMC uses are on VMWare and I know that performance is effected however saving an new active link only takes a minute or two. -Original Message- From: Mac Rhoades [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 4:13 pm Subject: Re: Company

Re: Can’t resize form view

2008-11-21 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Are there any fields at the right edge of those specific views? I seem to remember the User tool automatically expanding a view when there were fields to display. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Company wants to use VMWare and SQL 2005 for Remedy 6.3

2008-11-21 Thread Easter, David
Serendipitously, a new white paper was just posted about running ITSM and CMDB in a virtual environment. While, as others have said, support for AR System in a virtual environment wasn't added until AR System 7.0.00, perhaps the white paper will still be of value to you. Type(2) Product

Re: Can’t resize form view

2008-11-21 Thread David Durling
Dwayne, Just guessing - perhaps a user preference for the login with which you're testing? Don't know if that would only affect some views of a form, but I have had form displays weirdly enlongated horizontally and had to blow away the user's preference record to fix the issue. David D.

WORKAROUND: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Bill Bookers
For now, we did end up going with something similar to what Fred Grooms proposed. One of the DBAs suggested changing the int data type to bigint. Since there isn't an actual T table in ARSystem for a view form, we created one, and then changed int to bigint. So far, everything's working like it

Re: WORKAROUND: Problem with view forms

2008-11-21 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Just an FYI: You can create a View form from a Database view so you could have created a db View of the data that converted the type to bigint (or varchar for that matter) and your Remedy View Form from that From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On