Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Halstead
We are experiencing this same issue.. We are at the point where we're going to remove all workflow that updates tables on an interval as that re-requests a floating license. If there are any other ways to get the licenses freed, I'm all ears.. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Arner, Todd

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Re: Tracing outbound data froma web service.......

2009-08-06 Thread Bhavsar, Bipin
Sean, There is a free Open source tool available on http://www.soapui.org/ Via which you can track the things you are looking for. Thanks Regards, Bipin Bhavsar / Capgemini India / Airoli (Mumbai). Consultant / ITSM (AOS) Phone: +91-22-39194000 Extn: 2211236 VoIP : + 1 312 799

Re: field separator in menu append

2009-08-06 Thread shweta kumar
Robert, Thanks for your response.Yes I am trying to insert separator other than a blank space.I cannot use replace function to replace blank spaces with other character because menu items have different number of blank spaces. Example one item is quot;vendorquot;, other is quot;quality

Re: Tracing outbound data froma web service.......

2009-08-06 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Sean, I think the Mid-tier config settings can log WebService calls. (in bound and outbound) I think you see the exact XML that came in and goes out. -- Carey Matthew Black BMC Remedy AR System Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People +

Fwd: field separator in menu append

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Halstead
Sorry thought this had the list cc'd -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Halstead badbee...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM Subject: Re: field separator in menu append To: shweta kumar shweta_kuma...@yahoo.com Sweta, You could capture the length of the menu when

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration

2009-08-06 Thread strauss
After flushing the cache you restart Tomcat (or whatever web server you are using if not Tomcat) to run the prefetch. The mid-tier logs will indicate a Start and Finish of the prefetch. If you are prefetching most of ITSM 7, it will take about 30 minutes. Subsequent to a complete prefetch,

Re: OT: The case of the disappearing BMC sales rep

2009-08-06 Thread Savant, don...@cio
We were in similar circumstances when our sales rep left the company with no notice but BMC was much proactive in our case. Within a matter of a few days, we met the sales manager (he flew out from Texas) who officially informed us of the change and assigned an inside sales rep to work with us

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration

2009-08-06 Thread David Sanders
Hi Christie Have you restarted Tomcat after flushing the cache? If you restart Tomcat and run performance monitor, you should see a high level of activity for a few minutes while the cache is rebuilt. If you do not restart Tomcat, the chache for each form is only built when it is accessed

Re: OT: The case of the disappearing BMC sales rep

2009-08-06 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi Shawn, 6 months ago I probably could have written the same email as you have. My recent experience has been quite positive. On the education side, I sent an email asking a questions and it became a 8 email in 20 minute question and answer session about the upcoming 7.5 training and what I

Re: field separator in menu append

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Halstead
Oh, by the way you wouldn't need to know the length of the next appended item lol.. you could just go to the end of the string.. I just woke up, so I'm not really thinking too hard right now ;) On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Robert Halstead badbee...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry thought this had the

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration

2009-08-06 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Christie, The last time I looked at the pre-fetch feature it only worked when the web server was restarted. It looks like the 7.1 docs still support that as the design. Ref: Mid-Tier-710.pdf pg 78 If you flush the cache in the Configuration Tool, any prefetched forms you specified beforehand

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration

2009-08-06 Thread Mahesh Chandra
The prefetch process is performed when the web server is restarted. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Pargeter, Christie :CO IS cparg...@lhs.org wrote: ** Hi All - I am trying to setup my pre-fetch for Mid Tier but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. On the Mid Tier Config /

silkperformer

2009-08-06 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Has anyone had any experience with silkperformer for load testing the mid tier? Looking at using MT7.1. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr. Sr. Remedy Engineer Avaya Phone Admin RSP Cert, Sec+ 405 739 7006 x30043

Re: Reporting and Archiving

2009-08-06 Thread Kemes, Lisa
testing Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE arslist Melissa Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:27 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Reporting and Archiving ** I'm hoping someone can

Re: Date Time Conversion Issue in Remedy

2009-08-06 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Hi Amey, In Remedy, Date field stores internally in database as an integer format. And its count seconds from January 1, 1970. So, while you are sending data from other database, first convert your date in to integer. and then map with remedy date fields. For testing purpose, just send some

Adding Attribute to CMDB Base Element creates ERROR: 300 Malloc failed on server CreateMultipleFields()

2009-08-06 Thread tina flores
Hello Listers, I'm trying to add an an attribue to the BMC_BaseElement class but it is giving me this error: 300 Malloc failed on server CreateMultipleFields() I tried to remove the Change Pending entry in the OBJSTR:Class and OBJSTR:Pending forms and tried to add again but I keep getting the

Re: Issue with Asset Management/DSL

2009-08-06 Thread Begosh, Kevin
Has anyone else ran into this issue with their company? Has anyone done anything to fix this? Looking for recommendations on how to handle this since we have many contracts that use the same software titles even without the same departments. Kevin Begosh, RSP Remedy Development 301-791-3540

FW: Checking $USER$

2009-08-06 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I need to know if the $USER$ is in upper or lower case, so in my Active Link I put in the Run If field: $USER$ LIKE [A-Z]% But my actions run no matter if the $USER$ is in lower case or upper case(I only want it to run if the User is in uppercase) Not sure why this is doing this... Lisa

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Brittain, Mark
Robert, I did the same thing, disabling the table refresh on interval. Made for some unhappy users. FYI Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Robert Halstead Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03 PM

Checking $USER$

2009-08-06 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I need to know if the $USER$ is in upper or lower case, so in my Active Link I put in the Run If field: $USER$ LIKE [A-Z]% But my actions run no matter if the $USER$ is in lower case or upper case Not sure why this is doing this... Lisa Kemes AR System Developer Tyco Electronics

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Tim Richardson
I can't even count the number of times I've run into this issue.  Here's a strategy that helped at one of my clients. Pass 1:  Analyzed the heck out of our user profiles and assigned fixed vs. floating   smartly...giving hour heavy users a fixed. Pass 2:  Started grouping our floaters by

Re: Customer Support 5.6 and the future

2009-08-06 Thread Axton
I am and plan to try. I will post my findings as they become available. Axton On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Jarl Grøneng jarl.gron...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anyone using Customer Support 5.6 and looking into upgrading to ar system 7.5? From how I see it; CS 5.6 does not run on 7.5 since

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration

2009-08-06 Thread Leonard Neely - FOJ
Hi Christie, You should restart the web server after defining your pre-fetch list. The forms defined, are loaded into memory whenever the web server is restarted. When to Flush the cache, those forms are also flushed from memory, and will not be reloaded until the web server is restarted.

Re: Users unable to log in (ARERR 90)

2009-08-06 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Sue, Is your environment load balanced? Any info on the architecture would help. 1 mid tier + 1 AR? 2+2? Also, on the affected machines, (assuming they are running windows) when you try the connection via the ethernet cable, can you first open up a command prompt? Right after hitting OK, type

Adm:timing test

2009-08-06 Thread Daniel Bloom
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Re: Customer Support 5.6 and the future

2009-08-06 Thread patrick zandi
Maybe it will work itself out with ars 7.6 ? On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Jarl Grøneng jarl.gron...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anyone using Customer Support 5.6 and looking into upgrading to ar system 7.5? From how I see it; CS 5.6 does not run on 7.5 since SLA does not run on 7.5, and SLM

Re: Date Time Conversion Issue in Remedy

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Halstead
In the database, Remedy stores all date's in integer format (epoch unix time). Perhaps this is your issue? If you are putting these records directly into the database without going through remedy then you need to use epoch time. If you are going through remedy, then I believe its the locale of

Re: Tracing outbound data froma web service.......

2009-08-06 Thread Sean Harrodine
Hi Jarl, I just tried that but all is see is this.. PLGN TID: 009225 RPC ID: 14 Queue: Prv: 10005 Client-RPC: 99 /* Tue Aug 04 2009 21:22:55.3607 */ Plug-In Trace Log -- ON PLGN TID: 012300 RPC ID: 49 Queue: ARFILTERAPI Client-RPC: 390695 /* Tue Aug 04 2009

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCOKT
I think this *might* actually worsen the situation. I've found that Active Links that run on an interval -- even if the action is not licensable -- prevents the client from giving up its token. Maybe this was fixed in 7.x, but I just had to rewrite an application because the an interval AL was

Print Preview doesn't appear on clicking 'Print' button

2009-08-06 Thread RMUSR2009
This issue occurs for some of the users where they have BMC Remedy user v7.1 Patch 004 pushed through packaging. While clicking on Print button on the Incident/ Change Request screen, normally the Print preview appears before we print. This doesn'appear the same for all users. It directly goes

Re: Pre-fetch Configuration - RESOLVED

2009-08-06 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
I worked with Strauss yesterday and found out that the prefetching is triggered when Tomcat is bounced. Even if you have both IIS Tomcat. I also got from BMC: Also, please note, that in 7.5 changing the prefetch config file through the Cache Settings page will also trigger a prefetch. On

Re: Users unable to log in (ARERR 90)

2009-08-06 Thread bruce sisk
are your users using windows xp?? There was an issue with early releases of xp that would not resolve the host name of a server unless it was the fully qualified domain name (ie. server.mycompany.com). Have you tried using just the ip address to connect them?? If that worked...it would

Alternative to Crystal Reports

2009-08-06 Thread Trond Valen
Hi Quick Question: I have heard there is another reporting tool (for use with Remedy) from Business Objects that is preferred by many over Crystal Reports. What is this called? I have forgotten... Does anyone have experience with it and could tell me if there are great advantages of using it?

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Shellman, David
Todd, There is one item that is often overlooked or forgotten about. Use of Auto-Refresh caused us issues with floating licenses for many years. They would turn on Auto-Refresh and leave the client open for days on end. Since the Floating Write license timer is tied to searches this caused

Weird SLM 7.1 Issue

2009-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Has anyone ever seen SLM freak out and send two notifications with different From: addresses? I upgraded from the most recent version of SLM 7.0 to 7.1 and ran into this (even after installing the patch.) Basically what is happening is that for a single SLM notification, the filter (which I

Handle the error, but still cancel the transaction

2009-08-06 Thread LJ Longwing
ARS 7.1 Patch 6 Here is the situation...I'm wondering if it's possible, but don't think it is. I have some transaction that causes an error to occur. I want to be able to capture that Error in a record in the system, but roll back the transaction. If I build an error handler that performs

Re: Date Time Conversion Issue in Remedy

2009-08-06 Thread David S. Hutchinson
If you map the field the field to a character field, you can see how it is coming in. We actually map all fields of ours to character fields on a display only form and then use filters to modify the date format we are receiving, and then we perform a push action to the real form. this also

How to verify if apache and tomcat are running?

2009-08-06 Thread Kaye Bernales
mailto:kristine.berna...@macquarie.com Hi List, We just finished installing mid-tier 7.5 (Used patch 2). We are trying to load the test page as described in doc. but we got the error 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to

Re: RESOLVED Re: AIE Data Exchange Not Re-Starting

2009-08-06 Thread Joe DeSouza
That could do it :-) Does AIE still hog user connections though? It would not release the user connection after the schedule had run, and use another user connection the next time that same schedule runs.. These user connections were relased only upon stopping the EIE/AIE service. I remember

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread jham36
If you created an active link to run on interval, what form would you attach it to? Doesn't it need to be associated with a form? Maybe the Home form? On Aug 5, 8:41 am, Nicky Madjarov nmadja...@verizon.net wrote: I don't think there in an elegant solution of this problrm because the user

Re: Alternative to Crystal Reports

2009-08-06 Thread Roger Justice
Analytics that is sold by BMC. It is a run time version of BO application. -Original Message- From: Trond Valen trondva...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 2:28 am Subject: Alternative to Crystal Reports ** Hi ? Quick Question: I have heard there is another

Re: Blank Atrium Core Console

2009-08-06 Thread Joe DeSouza
Brian, I just corrected a similar problem.. Are you using IIS for your mid-tier and Tomcat as your jsp engine? When the blank screen opens, does your curosr remain as a 'clock' indicating that the screen may be still loading but nothing happens? If so it is very likely that your problem is

Re: Adding Attribute to CMDB Base Element creates ERROR: 300 Malloc failed on server CreateMultipleFields()

2009-08-06 Thread Lyle Taylor
Sounds like your AR server may have approached it's memory limit. You might consider restarting the AR server and then trying again. Lyle -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of tina flores Sent: Wednesday,

Re: How to verify if apache and tomcat are running?

2009-08-06 Thread Lyle Taylor
The fact that you're getting that error means that Apache is up and running. If Apache were down, your web browser would essentially tell you that it can't connect to the server or can't display the page (in the case of IE). This error means that Apache is trying to pass the request on to the

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread LJ Longwing
:)...that's roughly what I suggested yesterday :)...I seem to remember a poster in the past discussing that they had this implemented. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Wednesday,

Re: OT: The case of the disappearing BMC sales rep

2009-08-06 Thread Jason Miller
HI Shawn, Earlier this year we had a similar experience. I had sent some emails to our account manager but the emails did not bounce back and there was no reply. I was starting to get frustrated with the lack of a response when one of the BMC partners came knocking on the door (coincidence, I

Re: Handle the error, but still cancel the transaction

2009-08-06 Thread Carey Matthew Black
LJ, There are a few actions that will not be rolled back. Unfortunately they are not as trivial to setup as a Push action. :( I would suggest this approach... Create a DB table of your own. Keep it simple and focused with just a few columns. Message number (integer column) AKA: $FILTER-ERRNO $

Re: Encouraging Float License Users to Log Off When Inactive

2009-08-06 Thread Pat Zandi
It would be nice if it was attached to a group as well.. Like auto- refresh. Good people go in this group, otherwise nope. Then if Joe is doing bad things you just remove the group and next refresh he is shutdown. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Shellman, David

Using Escalation with form CHG:ChangeInterface_Create

2009-08-06 Thread Christine
I’m trying to use the Escalation process with the form CHG:ChangeInterface_Create to create a Change. I’m mostly an admin, not a developer. I have not been 100% successful with this. Looking for some advice: I am choosing the CHG:ChangeInterface_Create form. In the escalation I have no Run If

Re: How to verify if apache and tomcat are running?

2009-08-06 Thread Frank Caruso
When the Midtier installs it appends lines to the end of the httpd.conf file. Those lines tell it were to find the jk_mod module. Is it possible you have a corrupt version of that file? How was the jk_mod file built? On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Kaye Bernaleskristine.berna...@macquarie.com

Re: Tracing outbound data froma web service.......

2009-08-06 Thread Jarl Grøneng
You probably need to set the logging to a higher level. Level ALL should give you that. - Jarl 2009/8/4 Sean Harrodine sean_rem...@yahoo.co.uk: ** Hi Jarl, I just tried that but all is see is this.. PLGN TID: 009225 RPC ID: 14 Queue: Prv: 10005 Client-RPC: 99 /* Tue