Re: WWRUG09 report

2009-11-13 Thread Jason Miller
Congrats John and team! You beat the core technology in doing really nice web UI (for non IT people) a few years back and your new Tasking innovation is exciting for back end integrations. Mark Gemmell may just be my new hero. The concepts in his presentation can be game changing for a Service

Re: WWRUG09 report

2009-11-13 Thread Shellman, David
Jason, You really need to get some sleep. More tutorials and some repeat sessions in the morning. Sorry we couldn't get Mark back for a repeat session only because he's getting on a plane in the morning. Dave - dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com (Wireless)

RKM 7.5

2009-11-13 Thread brian . bishop
Hi all, Has anybody successfully installed RKM 7.5? I am trying to on a MS 2003 web server running IIS 6 and failing. Issues I have had so far are:- 1. Install of integration with ITSM failed when it attempted to load the RKM def file and supposedly got an error from it. 2. Tomcat fails on

Duplicate entry points on the home page

2009-11-13 Thread Raido Oja
Hi All, Has anyone ever had a problem with duplicate entry points on the home page? The story so far: we made a copy of Approval Central and since then we are seeing 2 entry points to the original. So both entry points open the same form. However we have removed the entry points from the form,

Re: Duplicate entry points on the home page

2009-11-13 Thread Raido Oja
Here is what was the issue - there was an entry point defined in the AL guide AP:Pending Approvals - LoadView. When copying workflow, we made a copy of that one as well. Cheers Raido On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Raido Oja raido@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Has anyone ever had a problem

Re: Need to get the last access

2009-11-13 Thread Ramey, Anne
We have a piece of workflow that fires when someone opens the homepage and logs that to another form. It's a far from perfect solution, but it's close enough for what we need. Anne Ramey E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law

Re: Need to export 12,000,000 or so records...

2009-11-13 Thread Murnane, Phil
William: I’ve used the same basic approach Derek describes with good success in the past. It works well to manage the server-side load because all data routes through a single client. The only caution I’d throw out is that you can expect a few of the records being exported (1% in my

Mid-Tier error with SSO

2009-11-13 Thread Agency Enterprise Help Desk
Hello, Environment: Mid-Tier: Version 7.1.00 Patch 003 Server: Version 7.1.0 patch 003 Windows 2003 OS, SQL 2005 database Some users are experiencing the attached error when they click on a drop down menu from the web interface. Has anyone seen this message and know what setting within the

JOB: Sr Remedy Developers - Washington DC Metro Area (Tysons Corner, VA) - US CITIZENS ONLY

2009-11-13 Thread Antonio Maradiaga
ARS Listers, InfoPro Incorporated is searching for a Senior Remedy Developer with experience migrating a client for Remedy v6.3 to Remedy v7.6. The role is a full-time permanent salaried role with InfoPro Inc. The project is located in Tysons Corner, VA and requires candidates to be US Citizen,

Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread LJ Longwing
To start off, here are the stats ARS 7.1 P6 (Windows) MidTier 7.1 P6 (Solaris) I have an app server running on windows, and a Solaris based MidTier server, both US based and non localized. Everything works fine till we bring on UK based people working in the system. They go to enter a date in

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
I have never seen any 'sorting' issues. Perhaps you could provide more detail as to what exactly you are seeing with respect to the 'sorting issues' As for the Business time. The AL formats the date on the command line and passes it to the server to perform the Business time calculations. If

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Hi, You should not doing business rules and logic in Active links! Filters handles this much better :-) As ben mention, moving the business time to filters will probably solve your issue. -- Jarl 2009/11/13 LJ Longwing lj.longw...@gmail.com: To start off, here are the stats ARS 7.1 P6

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread LJ Longwing
Don't worry Jarl, this is far from business rules. This is for display only purposes on display of a record, to tell you how many business hours it's been open. Doing it on display was the 'best' I could come up withother options involved having an escalation that fired every x to update all

Re: Need to get the last access

2009-11-13 Thread Easter, David
It is also available as a feature of AR System 7.5.00. 16-Jan-2009 What's New: BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.5.00 PDFhttp://documents.bmc.com/supportu/documents/84/15/98415/98415.pdf License management Current and historical license usage To provide data for flashboards so that they can

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread LJ Longwing
I have a table field that does a descending sort on 'Create Date'. This of course shows the most recently created records first. When looking at this table before doing the locale I see records created today at the top of the list '11/13/2009'. When I apply the GB locale and perform the same

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
Both would work though you'd need a server for the second midtier option and just extra records for the user profile option. I personally would opt for the user profile and perhaps some extra workflow to set it if the person's address was the UK (or some other automated way of setting extra

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Also, the option of the AL doing a push fields to a dummy form, having the form to the calculations, and then the AL picking up the result (and deleting the record) would also work. Is not this the Service action? -- Jarl

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread LJ Longwing
Isn't it true that setting up an additional UK based MidTier server would give them better overall performance vs. accessing a US based MidTier server? That alone is the only reason I would contemplate setting up another server. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread LJ Longwing
Hehehe...I was thinking the same thing. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Date Format - US/UK Also, the option of

Re: Date Format - US/UK

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
Possibly. That depends on network latency time etc. But sure, the round trip time could be shorter - depending on the real network layer topography. Ben -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing Sent:

Re: Need to export 12,000,000 or so records...

2009-11-13 Thread Brian Goralczyk
If you can link the two databases, I would just create some pl/sql scripts to copy the data over. You can manipulate in the script or in the table. I would use a staging table so that way you don't impact the production data until you are ready to. Of course, that does no good if you can't

Re: VB 6 ARS Screen pop issue

2009-11-13 Thread Brian Goralczyk
William, It has been a while but I am gonna try to help you on this one. I think you want to move the session creation, and the form pop work into different functions. Then call the session creation if the sessionNumber variable is not populated. The problem is that you are trying to log into

INFO: Help Desk 5.6 on ARS 7.5 on Windows 2008 With SQL Server 2008

2009-11-13 Thread Decou, Candace M
Just wanted to share with anyone else who might be considering this type of installation, where we have an older 5.6 version of Help Desk on an AR Server 6.3 in a Windows environment. We have just built out new Windows 2008 servers, installed ARS 7.5 and Help Desk 5.6 with no issues noted. Keep

Re: Need to export 12,000,000 or so records...

2009-11-13 Thread Martinez, Marcelo A
Could this be done by having a vendor form look into the CSS database; then just have an escalation run nightly to create the records in IM 7.03? Marcelo From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, November

Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Susan Palmer
Help !! Working with support but could use anyone else's input. I'm at WWRUG so it's somewhat limiting. We did a truss log and and when the services drop (arerror 91) we see the following: 167 /11:read(54, \0FE\0\006\0\0\0\0\01017.., 2064)= 254 /11:write(54, \0A1\0\006\0\0\0\0\003

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
The signal 11 is bad code - simple as that. It's a segmentation violation which means that the server (arserverd) attempted to read or write to an address not allocated to its virtual space. It can also be caused by a double free or two pointers to one block which has been freed. In any event,

Re: Remedy 7.x and Web services

2009-11-13 Thread lisakemes
Has anyone been able to find anymore documents on web services for 7.x? RaviRaj wrote: You can find in document: BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.0.01/7.1.00/7.5.00 Integrating with Plug-ins and Third-Party Products. Even I am looking for some more information/supporting documents on

Re: Remedy 7.x and Web services

2009-11-13 Thread Ravi
Even I am interested on some more help/documentation on WS.. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:42 PM, lisakemes lisan...@yahoo.com wrote: Has anyone been able to find anymore documents on web services for 7.x? RaviRaj wrote: You can find in document: BMC Remedy Action Request System

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
PS. The 91 is a red herring. It's the Sig 11 (SEGV) you need to worry about. The 91 is another process not being able to communicate with the arserverd process. Cheers Ben _ From: Ben Chernys [mailto:ben.cher...@softwaretoolhouse.com] Sent: November 13, 2009 8:42 PM To:

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Susan Palmer
Thanks Ben We're having problems determining where the 11 is coming from. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Chernys ben.cher...@softwaretoolhouse.com wrote: ** PS. The 91 is a red herring. It's the Sig 11 (SEGV) you need to worry about. The 91 is another process not being able to

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Darrell Reading
Did someone change kernel setting on the system last night when they did the DB changes? What size is the executable upon getting the SEGV? If remedy has been running fine up to this point and is crashing that often, then something changed. Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
These are a bit of a pain to solve. SQL logging on startup is the key. The logs are quite big but usually the last lines will be pertinent. You also need to know the database structure of the meta-data - given by the database reference guide. I'm afraid that these types of problems are not

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Ben Chernys
In the arerror log, you will see a line that has nothing in it except the 11. It is the arserverd daemon. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Susan Palmer Sent: November 13, 2009 8:57 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Susan Palmer
We've turned on both sql and api logging now to capture the next event. How would the db space affect this? They actually just expanded it last night. Working with the unix guys in the office and support, just not the same when you're not there. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ben Chernys

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up

2009-11-13 Thread Darrell Reading
More specifically, check maxsiz. Is the arserverd core dumping? What size is the core? Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 dere...@wal-mart.com Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 805 Moberly Lane, MS-0560-68 Bentonville, AR 72716 Save Money. Live Better

Re: Mid-Tier error with SSO

2009-11-13 Thread patrick zandi
SSO is not a standard oob install.. it is either customized, or it is a seperate product. BMC has one as well, that some people use. You are going to have to do some Exploritory Surgery in order to fiqure out what is the make and model or type you currently have.. Hope that helps some.. Do you

Re: Mid-Tier error with SSO

2009-11-13 Thread patrick zandi
It might just be a filter left over.. from some history. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: SSO is not a standard oob install.. it is either customized, or it is a seperate product. BMC has one as well, that some people use. You are going to have to do

Oracle RAC failover

2009-11-13 Thread Ramey, Anne
We've been running ARS 7.0 then upgraded to 7.1 with ITSM 7.0 using Oracle RAC as the DB for the last 2 years. Everything is fine when everything is up, but we discovered recently that the failover just doesn't work. SQLPlus sessions from the ARS servers work fine and recover from the pause

Re: Oracle RAC failover

2009-11-13 Thread Tony Worthington
We had the same issues and ended up abandoning RAC. Oracle told us that the Transparent Application Failover (TAF) code that made the switch via OCI libaries wasn't supported in the arserver binaries. Or we never figured out how to set up our connection strings properly... I'd also be

Re: INFO: Help Desk 5.6 on ARS 7.5 on Windows 2008 With SQL Server 2008

2009-11-13 Thread Mark Wilson
Candace - I'm interested in how this goes for you. We are on ARS 6.3 and Help Desk 5.5 although I could upgrade to 5.6. Are you using Mid-Tier? Thanks, Mark _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Decou, Candace M Sent:

Re: Oracle RAC failover

2009-11-13 Thread Lyle Taylor
We're using AR Server 7.1 p6 with Oracle in a RAC, and as far as I know, we've never had any issues with it, and we have failed over from one server to another. It's possible that the AR server got a couple intermittent errors, but it has never crashed on us or shut itself down. I'm not sure

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-13 Thread patrick zandi
I have specifically installed this.. but was informed (because I was going too) following the readme, and installation instructions Very Carefully... and it will work perfectly. IF you have the older version previous 7.1, you have alot of deleting users, groups, forms, AL, workflow. On Fri, Nov

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-13 Thread patrick zandi
Whoops .. Not Specifically installed this yet. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: I have specifically installed this.. but was informed (because I was going too) following the readme, and installation instructions Very Carefully... and it will work

Re: Prod server down - services will not stay up - RESOLVED

2009-11-13 Thread Susan Palmer
Thank you all for your suggestions. It was actually an existing problem that manifested itself in a way that it hasn't in 7 years. It was fairly unrecognizable. What was behind that is unknown. The short of it is, we have one form that due to 'bad' business reasons has two ranges of field id

OT: Guide to attachments for Incoming Emails via the Remedy email engine

2009-11-13 Thread William Rentfrow
A while ago I wrote an extensive guide on how to create Incidents via incoming email. That can be found here: http://williamrentfrow.com/automating-service-bmc-remedy-email-engine-pa rt-1/ I had a lot of good comments and questions. The most frequent question was How do I get attachments to

WWRUG - What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

2009-11-13 Thread Carin Grobler
Hi, For once this statement hold absolutely no truth. Thank you to all that made this year's RUG a roaring success The sessions were small and intimate allowing for great discussions. Everywhere you looked there were people discussing ideas and exchanging thoughts. Made some new friends and

WWRUG09

2009-11-13 Thread MichaelP
To the organisers of WWRUG09, Great job and look forward to meeting you all again next year. To the people who attended my Kinetic Calendar and Change Management session on Wednesday, email me and I will send you the presentation. Even if you did not, email me and can get it as well. Now for the