Re: Business Objects

2009-02-27 Thread Sokol, Brian
Hi Rod, So did you copy all the files from the \bin folder or just the reportadd.exe file? Even if I get this problem fixed I still have never been able to print a report. This reportadd.exe problem just came up when I updated the report file I was trying to load. I have never been able to get

Friday Humor - ITSM song

2009-02-27 Thread Ortega, Jesus
Since we all love Remedy and we know that the cause of the headache is the ITSM suite, I decided to create another song. This one would be a pitch from a BMC rep trying to sell BSM to the VP of Information Systems. Just imagine about five BMC sales reps in board room suddenly breaking out into

SLM 7.1 on ARS 7.0.03-malloc errors

2009-02-27 Thread Ramey, Anne
I'm running SLM 7.1 on ARS 7.0.03 on Red Hat Linux and have been getting MALLOC errors that are crashing my server. It's relatively random, sometimes it's when server targets switch statuses, sometimes it's building service targets, but it always seems to be related to something I did in SLM

Re: Friday Humor - ITSM song

2009-02-27 Thread Lockwood, Teresa L
I'm laughing out loud just picturing my sales rep(s) breaking into song and dance. Although I can't imagine them doing the hand gestures to I T S M like they would with Y M C A :-) Thanks for the morning laugh! ~~ Terri From: Action Request

FW: AD and Windows Server 2008

2009-02-27 Thread Drake,Dave
Has anyone encountered any issues upgrading to Active Directory 2008 and Windows Server 2008 as related to Remedy (with LDAP authentication activated)? ARS 7.0.1 p007, SQL2K5 Dave Drake - Remedy Administrator - Cerner Corporation - CernerWorks - 816-201-1823 - dave.dr...@cerner.com -

Re: Friday Humor - ITSM song

2009-02-27 Thread Danny Kellett
J Very good From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ortega, Jesus Sent: 27 February 2009 13:37 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Friday Humor - ITSM song ** Since we all love Remedy and we know that the cause of the headache is the

RESOLVED (not really): Business Objects

2009-02-27 Thread Sokol, Brian
Ok I was just told that we will be migrating from Business Objects to Microsoft reporting Services later this year. I am going to use our old Crystal 10 server for now which works OK. Is anyone using Reporting Service with Remedy? Will it work? Thanks, Brian

Re: RESOLVED (not really): Business Objects

2009-02-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We looked at it and there are potential issues. SSRS uses foreign keys and such to build the relationships for the equivalent of the Universe on BOXI. Since Remedy doesn't create foreign keys, it won't know what tables are related. You can still use it, but it's not as simple as BMC

Helpdesk 7.1

2009-02-27 Thread lakhes
Hi, Is anyone working on ARS 7.1 out of box remedy Helpdesk module? Can someone give some overview of the database structure how are company,site,contact,assets are related? What are the key form names like there is no SHR:People now it is CTM:People What are CTM,CFG,CMDB, CTR, CAI? I worked on

Re: Helpdesk 7.1

2009-02-27 Thread strauss
Get yourself a copy of the document BMC Remedy IT Service Management 7.0 Architecture from the BMC Support site. It contains ERDs for each of the applications and subsystems. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center

Re: Helpdesk 7.1

2009-02-27 Thread Danny Kellett
http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/57/43/65743/65743.pdf Regards Danny From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: 27 February 2009 16:02 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Helpdesk 7.1 ** Get yourself a copy of

COOP vs. High Availability Across Country

2009-02-27 Thread Steve Michadick
Background: We're being tasked to engineer the Remedy solution for our fail-over site. However, the definition of that fail-over site keeps changing from a cold COOP site, to a High Availability sort of follow the sun site. With our current configuration, I believe that we can do a cold COOP site

Re: COOP vs. High Availability Across Country

2009-02-27 Thread LJ Longwing
Steve, You will need to get them nailed down regarding what they want before you can engineer a solution, but having worked government for a short while, that's like nailing jello to the wall. That being said, here are a few thoughts for you regarding various solutions. - If you intend to have

Data Load Utility Timeout

2009-02-27 Thread James Lauber
Morning list. I'm working on importing about 250 people records using the ITSM 7.0.03 data load utility, and I am encountering a timeout error every time I try to promote the validated data. Once I click Promote, I get 4 records in DLD:ThreadManager and one DLD_OUT_CREATE record in CAI Events with

Re: Data level Security

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Before taking an approach like this, keep in mind that there are potential problems with this or other approaches using field 112. First, ITSM already uses this field to control access to records. By default, it will create a permission group for every company and every support group

Re: Data Load Utility Timeout

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Baldi
I'm not sure if this is related to your problem or not, but we had Data Load jobs get stuck In Progress and had to be killed to clear. The problem turned out to be that the admin user we were running the job with (e.g., Demo) did not have the proper ITSM config/admin foundation priviliges to

Re: Implementing data driven notifications

2009-02-27 Thread patchsk
Hi Shyam, Yes, I am thinking of more towards multidimensional matrix. And possibly independent of any particualr app, like a separate module. So user can specify the form, filtering condition could be any combination of fields and values...to get notified, more data driven. Will contact you once

OT: Friday humor

2009-02-27 Thread Marty.Thorin
I hear a variation on this a few years ago... Contractor's creed: If you can not Blind them with Brilliance, Dazzle them with Diligence, Baffle them with BS, then Bury them in Binders! Thorin ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: Data Load Utility Timeout

2009-02-27 Thread James Lauber
Thanks for the response Chuck. I have been running the process as myself, and I should have the necessary permissions. I tried running it as appadmin and had the same result. We also haven't customized our People form, yet anyway. Andy Lauber Software Engineer II Midland Loan Services

Re: Implementing data driven notifications

2009-02-27 Thread Kelly Heikkila
We did something similar to this for the Kinetic Request and Kinetic Survey applications when I was at Kinetic Data. It lets any authorized user via a Remedy User interface create message templates on their own. The emails were typically to fill out a survey or respond to a service

Re: Data Load Utility Timeout

2009-02-27 Thread Mark Lev
Just a shot in dark, have you turn development cache switch? Thanks, Mark Mark Lev Sr. Systems Consultant 703-672-4390 732-859-5827 (cell) mark@rightstarsystems.com --- RightStar Systems, Inc. 100 East Street SE, Suite 202 Vienna, VA

Re: Data Load Utility Timeout

2009-02-27 Thread Axton
ARServer is crashing. Try upgrading to the latest patch level of 7.0.1. If that doesn't fix the problem, open a support ticket with BMC. ARServer shouldn't crash regardless of what you throw at it; it's a defect in arserver. Axton Grams The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of

Check a Database Link in workflow.

2009-02-27 Thread J Kovalcik
Listers,   How do you check through workflow if a Database Link to an external database is available ?      Thanks,     John Kovalcik ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum

Errors migrating form using Migrator or by importing def file

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Hi List, I'm trying to migrate some forms from our development to our stage environment and am getting odd errors that don't make sense to me. I get several errors like this: Migration Error: 3700: Unable to create field 536880919 AR System Error: 382: The value(s) for this entry violate a

artask and vista

2009-02-27 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Remedy User Tool version 7.1 and Vista. How to get .artask files to work? They currently do not do anything. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum

Re: Errors migrating form using Migrator or by importing def file

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Correction: the second field listed below is a table field. Again, however, I haven't changed anything from the default except the name and adding a column to the table. Thanks, Lyle From: Lyle Taylor Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:09 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Errors migrating

Re: artask and vista

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Install Windows 7 :D Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:08 PM

Audit of Relationships in Asset Management

2009-02-27 Thread Ranjith
Currently, Asset Management has several fields that is being audited in a log. how we can audit when a CI relationship has changed (whether a CI has been related, or unrelated i.e. detached from another CI). Thank you Ranjith

BMC Service Request Management - Opinions

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I just wanted some feedback and opinions from some of you 'seasoned veterans' and your implementation of SRM. Good? Bad? Ugly? Any info you can/want to share is great. Thanks. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure Office:

Re: Errors migrating form using Migrator or by importing def file

2009-02-27 Thread David.M Clark
Lyle, Migrator has issues. Always has. You didn't specify what version of the AR System you are running, but if you're on anything less than 7.5 start by downloading and installing the latest patch of BMC Remedy Migrator. (7.1.00 Patch 006 as of 02/11 when I had to do it.) If the

Re: Errors migrating form using Migrator or by importing def file

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Hi David, Sorry, was trying to be quick and forgot to include the extra info. We're on 7.1 patch 005. Patch 006 only resolves issues with the Thai language, which we are not using. However, I also get the error when simply importing a def file, so I'm not sure the issue is actually related

Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Michael S. Davis
I tried posting this twice to the bulletin board but it didn't show up. Anyway, here goes..ok, and now it doesn't like my email address. Trying for a FOURTH time. We are upgrading to version 7 right now and are having some permissions troubles. What we need is for several different schools

Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread mathew thomas
All,   We have been able to implement SSO bearing one small issue. When we logout of Remedy the SSO Session is still active.The users are able to log back in by just tying in the URL or clicking the Return to Home Page option on the Logout.jsp without any authentication. If nothing works I am

Re: Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Matthew, I'm confused. It seems like SSO is working if they can log back in just by typing the URL or clicking Return to Home Page. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Errors migrating form using Migrator or by importing def file

2009-02-27 Thread LJ Longwing
Lyle, It looks like you have some data dictionary corruption related to that form, the reason it works when you delete and re-create is that it's assigned a new form index and everything goes in as new instead of an update. You may see if you can restore the DB from prod into your stage server,

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
I'd like to see if I'm understanding something correctly. Are there 70,000 people in each of the companies, because you've added the same 70,000 people to each company, or does each company have a separate set of 70,000 people unrelated to the people in any of the other companies? Lyle From:

Re: Check a Database Link in workflow.

2009-02-27 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
What database you are working with would be helpful. In Oracle I create a function to select a value thru the database link. I just make sure the function has the Exception clause in it. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Test_dbLink_ARS2 RETURN Number IS Result Number(15); BEGIN select

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Charles Baldi
Michael, You should not need to go through those hoops. It sounds like the Multitenancy configuration in ITSM 7 will work for you. You create multiple companies as you say, but no need for multiple People forms. Each person record belongs to a single company (whichever), then you grant explicit

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Michael S. Davis
No - they're the same 70,000 people. Since the requester company ID goes into field 112 we currently need to put all of the requesters into each company. Otherwise anyone could see any ticket. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Lyle

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Michael S. Davis
I understand all of this, but each person must be available for each company. There are only two ways to do this; either have one people database where each company pulls from or load the entire people database into each company. If we use one people database then everyone needs access to that

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
OK. Take a good luck at Chuck's reply. He has it right. There is no need for you to have everyone in each company or to fiddle with the permissions in this way. Multitenancy does this for you if you get the people records set up correctly. Just add the people once to the most appropriate

Re: Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread LJ Longwing
hehehe...sorry if I'm wrong about thisbut isn't the point behind SSO so they don't hafta log in...which means when they click that link returning them to the login screen...they shouldn't NEED to log in and they should be just taken directly back into the application. I'm thinking that it's

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
What do you mean that each person must be available for each company? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Michael S. Davis Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:41 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Version 7 Permissions Model ** I

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Michael S. Davis
I mean that we have 70,000 people in the database and each one of them must be available to every company. The callers could call one of five helpdesks, depending on what their problem is. I think this is where I'm a little dense. If the people are all in one company then every user has to have

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
So, is it something like this: Someone from School A calls the help desk for School B, and in order to log the ticket, the support person at School B needs to be able to look up the person from School A so they can make them the contact for the ticket? From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Correct me if I'm wrong but the following would probably work for you: 1. Take all of your non-support end users and mark them unrestricted access and/or create an escalation to populate CTM:peoplepermission groups with company memberships for all the companies you have. 2. Your

Re: Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread Axton
You are dealing with two different sessions. One with SSO and one with the mid-tier. If you to fully end the session, you have to take care of both sessions. Axton Grams The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Granting the customer Unrestricted Access would allow them to see tickets from any company, but would not allow the support person from a different company to see the customer's people record if the support person doesn't also have Unrestricted Access. Lyle From: Action Request System

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yes, so in that case, what about just adding the end users to each company. If they are end user's, they most likely won't have permissions to search incidents anyway since they are non-support. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Well, as I understand it, that's the problem. Adding each company to a customer's Access Restrictions doesn't make that customer any more visible to the other companies - it just increases what that customer has the potential to see in the system. Creating a separate People record in each

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread John Underwood
Michael, We have a similar situation with the North Dakota University System, there are 11 campuses that use the same Remedy system. We share the same people database (CTM:People). We went with Single Tendency, so incident could be easily transferred between campuses. The larger campuses

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Lyle Taylor
Michael, What if you broke the people into six groups instead of five? Your IT staff would be split into Schools A-E and would only have access to the Schools whose tickets they need access to. Your customers would then be split into another company, say Customers. All of your support staff

Re: Audit of Relationships in Asset Management

2009-02-27 Thread Roger Justice
This relationship is held external to the Asset record and would require extensive customization to track since when the relationship is removed the entry is deleted. -Original Message- From: Ranjith ranji...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 3:23 pm Subject:

Re: Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread Axton
To call it 'as designed' is short sighted. You should be able to end an sso session just as you end any other type of session. I have yet to see an sso implementation that does not have a means to do this. The OP should read up on the sso implementation in use to find out how to implement it

Re: Friday Humor - ITSM song

2009-02-27 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
My Account Manager is a very pretty and very nice lady. I definitely would not mind seeing her break into a song and dance!! Although YMCA, I don't know! shafqat --- On Fri, 2/27/09, Lockwood, Teresa L tlockw...@adt.com wrote: From: Lockwood, Teresa L tlockw...@adt.com Subject: Re: Friday Humor