how to implement a carriage return

2009-03-19 Thread Remedy Maniac
dear all, I need to implement at one place only a carriage return in the following way: I have a character field (A) where my users put text. I have a button which on click fires the workflow to get the value from A I'd like the workflow being fired with carriage return instead of the button

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2009-03-19 Thread Sucharita SINGHAL
Hello List, We are trying to import an SLA which has the following text in 'Message' field in Send Email Action. The case $Case ID+$ crossed Response Time.Escalated to Service Desk. Subject : $Summary$ Descr : $Description$ Requester : $Requester

Re: AW: how to implement a carriage return

2009-03-19 Thread Remedy Maniac
hello Conny, that works of course sometimes you just miss obvious things because obviously there are too obvious :-D many thanks for your help sr Conny Martin wrote: Serouche, if I not misunderstood your requirement, then you only have to set the Execute On condition of your AL to fire on

Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
We just upgraded our server from Win32/ARS 6.x to Linux/ARS 7.1. We also use Netcool and I'm having trouble getting Netcool's Remedy Gateway to connect to the new server. Couple questions: We're running ARS on port 9901. Clients connect fine and I can see in a netstat -a that it's listening, but

AW: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Conny Martin
James, telnet my.arserver.com 9901 should work. You won't see any output, but the connection get's accepted by the arserverd process. Here's an example. This server listens on TCP-Port 4488 arad...@affhc041:/apps/javaprocs/mobis telnet itsm.telekom.de 4488 Trying 164.29.40.240... Connected

Re: AW: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:52 +0100, Conny Martin wrote: James, telnet my.arserver.com 9901 should work. You won't see any output, but the connection get's accepted by the arserverd process. Here's an example. This server listens on TCP-Port 4488

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Shyman, Jonathan
James, This is strange. If I read this right you are saying that Remedy User Tool can connect from client desktops but the NetCool client cannot connect to Remedy? My first question would be this: By no firewalls are enabled do you mean between the NetCool server and the

Re: web user need to export the content of a table field

2009-03-19 Thread Daniele B.
Hi Carey Matthew Black, your informations and adivices are very helpful. I think to be near to the solution... I have a latest question: can I copy and paste the web report content in a document or is it only possible to print? Perhaps Report format CSV is better? I hope to write soon that

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 07:12 -0500, Shyman, Jonathan wrote: James, This is strange. If I read this right you are saying that Remedy User Tool can connect from client desktops but the NetCool client cannot connect to Remedy? My first question would be this: By no firewalls are

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:26 -0400, Frank Caruso wrote: ** We just went from 6.3 to 7.1 ARS servers and it broke our Netcool gateway. If I remember correctly there was an incompatibility between the NCG 6.3 and ARS 7.1. Something to do with how NCG 6.3 does authentication was not working

Re: web user need to export the content of a table field

2009-03-19 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Daniele, IMHO, the v6.3 Mid-Tier does not (correctly) support CSV output. You can set the report to output CSV data, but that version of the Mid-tier produces an HTML table from the CSV data. If you were using a v7.1 Mid-Tier then my answer would be different. If the user is using the User

Re: LDAP lookup problems

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 19:20 -0400, Begosh, Kevin wrote: James, I have gone over and over this with BMC. The query that BMC has using the vendor form times out a lot unless you put in a CN. We had to for ours. I used CN=Users, then when you bring up a vendor form you can change the query

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Frank Caruso
We just went from 6.3 to 7.1 ARS servers and it broke our Netcool gateway. If I remember correctly there was an incompatibility between the NCG 6.3 and ARS 7.1. Something to do with how NCG 6.3 does authentication was not working against 7.1 ARS. I cannot tell if you upgrade your NCG to 7.1 On

Re: LDAP lookup problems

2009-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I think it also depends on how the LDAP is structured at your location. Here I use the following: ldap://domaincontrollermachine/DC=corp,DC=comapny,DC=com??sub?(objectclass=user) I have seen people use the IP instead of the domain controller machine name.

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Tony Worthington
Have you indicated the tcp port on the netcool server via environment variables? ARTCPPORT etc... From: James Pifer j...@obrien-pifer.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 03/19/2009 06:34 AM Subject: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1 Sent by: Action Request System

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:29 -0500, Tony Worthington wrote: ** Have you indicated the tcp port on the netcool server via environment variables? ARTCPPORT etc... Not in the environment variables, only in the conf. Can you give me more info on the environment variable? Would it be:

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I totally agree with you that $SERVER$ LIKE (( % + Server A ) + % ) should be the same as $SERVER$ LIKE %Server A%, and I have assumed that in the past. I guess I should not assume the obvious -Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Tony Worthington
Yes - depending on your shell/os. I remember us having this same issue a while back. The env variable resolved our issues. From: James Pifer j...@obrien-pifer.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: 03/19/2009 08:37 AM Subject: Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1 Sent by:

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Charles Baldi
The Netcool Gateway has its different binaries for different versions of Remedy. The NCG readme explains which binaries to use for the specific Remedy versions. When you upgrade Remedy, you need to change the Netcool Gateway to use the proper binaries. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Thu, Mar 19, 2009

Re: Format IP Address

2009-03-19 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Accomplishing this with ARS seems not trivial at all. If it can be accomplished, it will look messy and cludgy. My knee jerk reaction would be to find a shell or perl script that can accomplish this and call that script with a set fields $PROCESS$ or filter API. The perl archive is the first

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 08:39 -0500, Tony Worthington wrote: ** Yes - depending on your shell/os. I remember us having this same issue a while back. The env variable resolved our issues. Setting the environment variable does seem to help. At least it tries to connect on 9901 now. Still

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Dip Patel
We ran into this Issue couple of days back when we switched our servers from Portmapped to manual port assignment. Try the following... a) Check if this variable is set in the Gateway config file.. TCP_FLAG = TRUE # Use TCP functionality b) Set the ARTCPPORT value in the Environment

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread James Pifer
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:35 -0400, Dip Patel wrote: ** We ran into this Issue couple of days back when we switched our servers from Portmapped to manual port assignment. Try the following... a) Check if this variable is set in the Gateway config file.. TCP_FLAG = TRUE

Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread bruce sisk
Good morning, I am beginning to set up the second server that will then be configured in a server group. The primary server is up and running as follows: Windows 2003 Server Oracle 10 DB (remote) ARS 7.1 P6 - including email, approval, assignment, flashboards CMDB 2.1 P4 AIE 7.1 P4 ITSM 7.0.3

Re: Format IP Address

2009-03-19 Thread Juan Ingles
If you have perl installed on the server, it can be easily accomplished on the command line like this: perl -e 'print join ., map {sprintf %03d, $_} split(/\./, 13.23.3.33);' Depending on your setup, you might have to put in the full path to perl to get it to run in the set field $PROCESS$

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Juan Ingles
The only reason I can think of why it would be different is if %text% was something magic to the interpreter. Like windows trying to expand it as a environment variable, for instance. Juan Ingles -- On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.comwrote: ** I totally

Re: please inform me.

2009-03-19 Thread srinivas madhurakavi
Daval, I am not sure whether you have a linkedin account (http://www.linkedin.com) but in case you have one, then there is a Group in it where I remember recently coming across Remedy positions in India. I think the group name is - BMC/Remedy Action Request System Gurus. Good Luck -Srinivas On

OT: Dynamic Metric Reporting

2009-03-19 Thread Gidd
Listers: For those interested in metric reporting examples: You can login (Click on the Support link on our home page) Login as Mary McDonald - mmcdonald/mmcdonald Select the Dashboard Icon then choose Report Type you want... If you select Single (report type) then you will have additional

Re: Format IP Address

2009-03-19 Thread Jason
Make your IP field readonly. Add a small button next to it that opens a dialog with 4 separate fields. 1 for each octet. All it would take is 1 active link to compose your IP Address field. From: Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Lev
$SERVER$ LIKE (( % + Server A ) + % ) is not programmatically the same as $SERVER$ LIKE %Server A% %Server A% is a literal string, will always be what is between quotes. % + $SERVER$ + % is a computed dynamic string, with $SERVER$ being populated at run-time. If $SERVER$ Server A the

AIE and Currency fields

2009-03-19 Thread Oscar Herrera
I wonder if any has seen this in AIE and found a soloution.   I'm migrating custom forms with currency fields from remedy 5 environment  into Compponents class (CMD 2.1) in ars 7.1   The currency fields have a structural difference from the 7.1 environment and thus my mappings are failing.  See

Re: AIE and Currency fields

2009-03-19 Thread Rick Cook
Oscar, I found that the only way to convert 5.x currency data to 6/7.x is to import it to a character field and then from the char to the 6/7.x currency field. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Oscar Herrera oherrera...@yahoo.com Date:

IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread Louise Van Hine
  I wanted to know from those who have done some mapping of network hardware and devices, how you map various and sundry IP-addressed network devices in the CMDB?  My task right now is to try to use what we have without adding any classes or attributes, (at least for now), and it looks like

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
I'm not sure about the documentation, but I will share one thing that I learned. While all of the servers will have a common alias that outside clients will use to connect to the server group (hopefully), you don't want the flashboards and e-mail services hitting the alias. When you install

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread VanSickle, James W
To my knowledge, there is no single White Paper outlining all the components in one document. The information is scattered about in their KB database. Each process component installation for Server Group can vary too. For example, you can just run the Email Engine installer on your Secondary

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Copits
Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want them to be identical? If you set the sticky bit on the Load balancer, your connection will persist on the selected server won't it? What if you land on the Server that doesn't have flashboards? -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
Which server does e-mail or flashboards processing (not regular flashboards processing - that is, displaying flashboards - that happens in the mid-tier, but the processing that the flashboards server does) is determined by a server's server group ranking. If you've got things behind a load

Re: web user need to export the content of a table field

2009-03-19 Thread Daniele B.
Hi Carey Matthew Black, I solved my reporting problem thanks to your old post: On 12 Mar 2007, 18:37, Carey Matthew Black black@gmail.com wrote: Gary, Make sure the form Report has Public VISIBLE access. We found a bug in the v6.3 code line that prevented the Report Creator from working

Capture ComputerName and UserName

2009-03-19 Thread Jason Tricky
I'm trying to capture the computername and windows username using a filter.   I tried using Set Fields = $PROCESS$ %COMSPEC% /c echo %COMPUTERNAME% but I get and error -- ARERR [341] Cannot run the requested process   Tried using $PROCESS$ c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c hostname and I get the

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Copits
I guess I sort of agreebut I'm not sure about the email part. We have other applications that Have a load balancer and each has an email ability. For example, we have two servers, such as servera And serverb but if you try to access one you're vectored to the load balancer serverx

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I strongly differ with your assessment. We are talking about two literal strings: (( % + Server A ) + % ) and %Server A% We are NOT talking about % + $SERVER$ + %, so let's not muddle things. IMO, (( % + Server A ) + % ) and %Server A% should be interpreted the same -Guillaume

Re: Capture ComputerName and UserName

2009-03-19 Thread Scott Illari
Jason, You won't be able to gather the user's computer information thru a filter since they run on the server. You will need to run your $PROCESS$ command in an active link without using @@. Since you are attempting to do this in a filter, I am assuming timing does not matter so you can

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
Hi Mark, I think you are mistaken here. quote $SERVER$ LIKE (( % + Server A ) + % ) is not programmatically the same as $SERVER$ LIKE %Server A% /quote Yes is it. '(( % + Server A ) + % )' is logically equivalent to %Server A%, because by definition based on how BMC have defined the

Re: Capture ComputerName and UserName

2009-03-19 Thread Feliciano, Ferdinand, A (Rocky)
Do an Active Link instead of Filters. Filters run on the server side. That's why you're getting the server's information. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Jason Tricky Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:27 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Look the comments in the conf... ARS_PORT is an RPC port, not a TCP port. It would be used if you have a private RPC server (like 390689) thread defined for Netcool to use. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Ramey, Anne
Actually, that could cause problems if one server goes down. The other won't be able to correctly pick up the work for those items where you've specifically set up the down server. We use the server group/load balancer name for email and flashboards as well as web services, etc. and it all

Re: Capture ComputerName and UserName

2009-03-19 Thread Jason Tricky
Thank you Scott and Ferdinand.  Active link works great!     From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Feliciano, Ferdinand, A (Rocky) Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Capture ComputerName and

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Actually the Email engine is just another client. There is no special processing done on the server any more for the Email Engine so you can install it anywhere (even on a completely separate machine). Flashboards is now a plugin that is installed along with the standard server install. Fred

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Richard Copits
I'd have to agreeif you don't have two identical setups front-ended by a load Balancer then you won't have a true complete failover if one fails. A well designed System should provide total transparency to users in case of the failure of one I would like to see BMC come out with a more

Table row background colors in 7.0.1 not working

2009-03-19 Thread Rick Westbrock
This is the first time that I've tried to set the background color of a table row (list view) based on a selection field, I've always just changed the text color in the past. My problem is that I can't get the background color to appear even when the value of the selection field matches the

Re: Table row background colors in 7.0.1 not working

2009-03-19 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Even if you do have this option in the Admin tool you I don't think you will ever see it unless you are using a 7.1.0 or later User tool (since they said it is a 7.1.0 feature). Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On

Re: Capture ComputerName and UserName (U)

2009-03-19 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
UNCLASSIFIED The AL captures the computer name but not the Windows' user name. Sandra Hennigan Remedy Developer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Feliciano, Ferdinand, A (Rocky) Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:46 AM To:

Re: Anyway to read the ARDBC via workflow?- Resolved

2009-03-19 Thread Mark Lev
Before everyone on the list beats me up :) I did transpose in my mind the with at $ and therefore my discussion doesn't apply to the example shown. Sorry for adding more confusion to the mix. Working, reading and typing too fast I guess. Thanks, Mark

Re: Capture ComputerName and UserName (U)

2009-03-19 Thread William Rentfrow
DO a search for: Re: Mid-Tier 6.3 - Get User Name - Bug? - SOLVED The entire solution is there. Posted by the poster below back in 2005. William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. wrentf...@stratacominc.com Corporate Website, www.stratacominc.com 715-410-8156 C -Original

Re: Port issues with Netcool Gateway connecting to ARS 7.1

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Chernys
FYI The different binaries of NetCool are fine with different versions of ARS. You just need to make sure that the .so's that NetCool uses match the NetCool binary you have. It does not need to match the ARS server you have. That being said, one can restrict the ARS server from talking to older

CFG:Escalation Form

2009-03-19 Thread Steven Iocco
Hi folks. I am just wondering if anyone knows what the CFG:Escalation form is used for? Anyone using it? There are no records configred in our system. I have been tasked to create a few notifications for when targets are missed (IE respond targets) in the absense of an SLM module so I have

Workflow Order Question

2009-03-19 Thread Sokol, Brian
We have a custom purchasing application in Remedy. At the end of the purchasing process a Help Desk ticket (HD 5.6) is created. I am trying to populate the description field with our back end purchase order number. The Remedy purchase request may have more then 1 PO#. At the time that the HD tkt

Remedy 7.5 Images

2009-03-19 Thread remedy
I was wondering if anyone else had an issue with Images resizing themselves after being added to the developer studio. Am I missing something? A setting somewhere? I can't see anything in the documentation. The file size is shrunk from over 1mb to only a few k, and the actual size of the image

ITSM Mailbox

2009-03-19 Thread Balakumar, Viswanathan
Hi, Is it possible to configure ITSM to use a Specific Out Going mailbox configuration ? Looks like ITSM uses the Default Outgoing mail box configuration. I have another Custom application which is also relaying on the default mailbox configuration, for which we are trying to keep a

Re: ITSM Mailbox

2009-03-19 Thread jham36
It wold probably be easier to modify your custom apps than to modify ITSM. Create another outgoing mailbox and set it as the default. Then update your custom app to use the other mailbox. On Mar 19, 4:49 pm, Balakumar, Viswanathan vbalaku...@columnit.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to configure

Re: Format IP Address

2009-03-19 Thread William Rentfrow
I have to ask out of curiosity - WHY would you want to do that to IP addresses? I'm not usually one to snoop...but I am curious William Rentfrow Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. wrentf...@stratacominc.com Corporate Website, www.stratacominc.com http://www.stratacominc.com/ 715-410-8156

Re: Installing Secondary Server in Server Group

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
Note: This is based on my experience and was valid for us up until at least ARS 7.1 patch 003, I think. E-mail processing is considered a back-end process that is processed by a single AR server at a time within a server group. I agree that for regular client operations, you would want all

Re: Workflow Order Question

2009-03-19 Thread Begosh, Kevin
I am sure someone will tell me if I am wrong but I think you might be able to use the last ID keyword.. I think Kevin Begosh, RSP Tech Ops Enterprise Business Services 301-791-3540 Phone 410-422-3623 Cell kevin.beg...@lmco.com From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread Louise Van Hine
  I wanted to know from those who have done some mapping of network hardware and devices, how you map various and sundry IP-addressed network devices in the CMDB?  My task right now is to try to use what we have without adding any classes or attributes, (at least for now), and it looks

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
I believe the IP Endpoint class is intended to document things like IP addresses. Adding an attribute for IP address is probably not a good solution, unless you know that the device will only have one (or some maximum number of) IP address(es). As noted in someone else's reply, there is a

Anyone using the Remedy C-API on windows?

2009-03-19 Thread Dan Bikle
People, Are you currently writing any C programs on windows which make C-API calls to Remedy? If yes, how do you describe your development environment? My eventual goal is to use Ruby scripts to connect to Remedy. I see this as a 3 step process: - Learn how to write C programs on windows -

Re: Anyone using the Remedy C-API on windows?

2009-03-19 Thread Danny Kellett
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Re: Anyone using the Remedy C-API on windows?

2009-03-19 Thread Axton
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