SV: Discovery 1.6

2009-11-20 Thread Petrus Johansson
When you set up Synchronization task in FD/TD the discovered data will be synchronized to the IMPORT.TOPOx dataset in Atrium CMDB. But if you don´t want the data in BMC.ASSET you need to inactivate the reconcilation jobs in Atrium CMDB, they are active and scheduled to run 12am OOTB. Unless you

Re: Tracking Power Equipment in CMDB

2009-11-20 Thread Peter Romain
I created a sub-class of UPS called Power Management to hold rack power distribution blocks for one customer. In your scenario I'd probably do the same again and use CTI to differentiate between the various items. Cheers Peter Hi All, We have a requirement to track power equipment related

AUTO: Hornsby, Tambre L is out of the office. (returning 11/23/2009)

2009-11-20 Thread Tambre L Hornsby/AC/VCU
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SV: Discovery 1.6

2009-11-20 Thread Petrus Johansson
Discovery synchronization is based on CI Class and Attributes... In FD/TD you can not syncrhonize only CIs that were discovered from a specific Discovery task. Best Regards / Mit freundlichen grüssen / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Petrus Johansson Product Responsible BMC Topology Discovery Product

SV: Discovery 1.6

2009-11-20 Thread Petrus Johansson
Correcting myself here... I belive you can create a view of the CIs and export it as a csv file and then import that csv file to AR... Havn´t tried this though. Best Regards / Mit freundlichen grüssen / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Petrus Johansson Product Responsible BMC Topology Discovery Product

Re: Change Password and the Cancel button

2009-11-20 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Stuart, Add some workflow to the button. Have it... Check the data in the User form that identifies when the user has to update their password. If the data looks like the user needs to change their password then you can have it do what you want it to do. ( You said logout but you might also

Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi all, If you have Development Cache Mode ON for a production environment. What would be the impact, if: - No admin-changes were done - And No changes to Groups of the type View/Change were done The client runs ARServer 7.1.0 patch 4, ITSM 7.0, Windows and Oracle. it is a server group with 2

Re: 6.3 user tool with 7.5 Server

2009-11-20 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
If you check the archives I think there were some discussions on cases where an older User Tool could crash a newer server. The newer User Tools work with the older servers with very little issues and that is why I recommend you upgrade your User Tool first. When we did our 6.3 to 7.1

Re: ARDBC LDAP Configuration Bind Credentials

2009-11-20 Thread Hulmes, Timothy W Mr CTR USA IMCOM
Mark, thanks for the reply. Does anyone know of any way to work around this? We don't own our tree and they won't allow simple binds and we can't use SSL. Tim -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Walters,

Re: ARDBC LDAP Configuration Bind Credentials

2009-11-20 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Tim, Just spitballing a few ideas Maybe... ) Write your own ARDBC connector? ) Maybe there would be a way to create an LDAP server or your own where you do an LDAP referral to get the data? (That may or may not solve your authentication problem.) Or maybe you would need to replicate the

Re: BMC on Salesforce hmmmm?

2009-11-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It doesn't include ARS, so unless you work with the products formerly known as Magic, you won't need to worry about it. What should cause more concern in my opinion is Microsoft Service Manager: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/service-manager.aspx This will complete directly with

Re: BMC on Salesforce hmmmm?

2009-11-20 Thread Rick Cook
I wouldn't worry about MSM in the short term - it will be positioned to compete against the SMB market (i.e. Magic, TrackIt, etc.) for at least the first couple of years while they sort things out. And I don't think it's near initial release yet. Rick -Original Message- From: Action

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread strauss
Good – all of you can help nominate her for BMC Employee Beyond The Call of Duty award in 2010. When I hit a snag in RKM, usually when installing a new test setup or patching an existing one (the installers are problematic, and I like to break new stuff), she’s on the phone in 15 minutes!! NO

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Worthington
I second that, and will next year. Carrie saves the day every time... Tony Worthington | Sr. Technical Analyst | Kohl?s Department Stores N56 W17000 Ridgewood Drive | Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 | office: (262) 703-7763 | e-mail: tony.worthing...@kohls.com From: strauss stra...@unt.edu To:

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread patrick zandi
Carrie R is old fashioned Remedy Support -- IF BMC could only put it in a bottle.. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Tony Worthington tony.worthing...@kohls.com wrote: ** I second that, and will next year. Carrie saves the day every time... *Tony Worthington** |* *Sr. Technical Analyst |**

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I will say the CMDB support team (on shore and off shore) have been stellar as well Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of patrick zandi

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I also agree. Carrie has provided excellent help to me in the past, and she is an excellent model for customer service. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:42 AM To:

Re: Firewall TCP Timeouts

2009-11-20 Thread Leihkauff, Kenneth
No NATing is involved. It is simply a firewall between our DMZ and internal networks -- network address translation is not used. Ken -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Thursday, November 19,

Re: ARDBC LDAP Configuration Bind Credentials

2009-11-20 Thread Walters, Mark
Tim, As suggested by Carey you'll either need some sort of proxy in front of the LDAP server that will allow ARS to connect and get the data or write your own that supports the necessary options. I'd also recommend you raise an RFE with BMC to get improved security added to the out-of-the-box

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Worthington
Misi - We have the same issue. We run with dev cache mode off in production and are required to bounce the server (extending the outage by at least 10+10 minutes) to flip in and out of dev cache mode. I have also found that making changes with dev cache off is risky, and has caused serious

Re: RKM 7.5 (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-11-20 Thread Drake, David P Mr CTR USA MEDCOM USAMITC
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Couldn't agree more. Worked with Carrie several times. She's absolutely brilliant! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Worthington
I missed your question... sorry. - No admin-changes were done - And No changes to Groups of the type View/Change were done This is from BMC KB KM-00024487. It doesn't answer your ? directly, but is full of good information. What may cause poor performance in the Admin Tool? When poor

Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi All, We just upgraded from 1.5 to 1.6 and we are having performance issues now. The users are frustrated with the performance. We are running long tasks at night time scanning about 5,000 IP addresses. Also we are creating large tasks. Our Discovery is on one server, and the CMDB is

Re: Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread Kelly Deaver
** Kathy, You will get a lot more help from a Discovery focused group. Isuggest you read and post here - http://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn/bmc_atrium_and_foundation_technologies/discovery There are greatdocs and discussions on how to tune the discovery of CIs as well as the

Re: Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread patrick zandi
CMDB is on one server FD is on another server. FD can get taxed on its CPU and whatnot itself, but does not affect the CMDB. FD syncronized which does affect CMDB but minimally from what I have seen. CMDB Slowness should be due to the recociliation engine.. if you ars system slows or crashes

Re: Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread Kathy Morris
Forgot to mention - we are not using the reconciliation engine. In a message dated 11/20/2009 12:05:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, remedy...@gmail.com writes: ** CMDB is on one server FD is on another server. FD can get taxed on its CPU and whatnot itself, but does not affect the

Re: Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread patrick zandi
OK? I will not claim to understand this answer.. So I will choose to leave this alone.. LOL On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.comwrote: ** Forgot to mention - we are not using the reconciliation engine. In a message dated 11/20/2009 12:05:57 P.M. Eastern

Re: Validating Remedy Passwords

2009-11-20 Thread David Sanders
Hi Rick I use this process in active links with no problem (with a regular field ID, not 102). I don’t know about CTM:People, but it confirms that the password entered matches the current user’s Remedy password, whether that be stored in the User form or authenticated via AD. You can only

Re: Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Discovery

2009-11-20 Thread Kathy Morris
Totally not my idea. I have this reconciliation battle every day. Someone believes a script is the best way to reconcile the data. I am going to run the reconciliation jobs, and after I finish - hopefully they will get the concept. :) In a message dated 11/20/2009 12:13:14 P.M.

Parent _ Child Relationship Server Appliction

2009-11-20 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
Hi, We are having confusion in our organization. Relationships - If let's say Solaris Applications sit on the UNIX server. Is the Solaris Application a child of the Unix server. Or is the Unix server a child of the Solaris Application. We are just trying to understand what is the

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Lyle Taylor
I just worked through a longstanding issue that we have had in our environment related to Dev Cache Mode. Due to extremely slow performance when making admin changes on a 7.0 server, I had gotten into the habit of keeping our admin server set with Dev Cache Mode turned on, which significantly

Re: Parent _ Child Relationship Server Application

2009-11-20 Thread Tommy Morris
The Solaris application is dependent upon the hardware so the Solaris App would be a Child of the UNIX server. It helps me to think of Child/ Parent as dependent/ host. Solaris cannot host UNIX but UNIX can host an application. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Validating Remedy Passwords

2009-11-20 Thread Rick Cook
Thanks, Dave. I do have it working now, in an Active Link, using field 102. If I use an unencrypted field (i.e. NOT 102), does the API do the encryption before it does the comparison? Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of David

Re: Parent _ Child Relationship Server Appliction

2009-11-20 Thread Lyle Taylor
I'm not sure it can be thought of in such a simple manner. The problem is that what you consider the parent or the child does not necessarily correspond to the direction of the relationship depending on what type of relationship you're talking about. For example, if Item A depends on Item B,

WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Mike Hennessy
If you guys know, is there any chance that WWRUG will be in Vegas every year, or next year, at least? That place is just awesome. BTW, great job Daniel, Lenny, Joel, Phil, and the rest of you who toiled in the background! -- Mike Hennessy

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Lyle and Tony, Thank you for the reply. In other words, there should be no impact whatsoever if you perform NO admin-changes. If you apply your changes when both users, email engine and escalations are taking it easy, it would probably be faster to use Developer Cache Mode even in production

query against AssignedToGroup (dynamic group)

2009-11-20 Thread Brien Dieterle
Is there any easy way to write a query against a dynamic group field? I basically want $AssignedToGroup$ LIKE % ' $USER$ ' % (since the fields might contain users), OR $AssignedToGroup$ LIKE 123; or LIKE 567; etc for every group the user is a member of. Before I embark on building an AL

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Tony Worthington
Be aware that (mysterious) things in ITSM7 trigger recaches -- not just definition imports or changes. I haven't quite figured out what -- but we have one or two a day -- no admin involved. They show as Remedy Application Service user. Some can be traced to group changes, which we now

Re: query against AssignedToGroup (dynamic group)

2009-11-20 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Brien, Normally the 'AssignedToGroup' fields (Field ID's 112 and/or 6-60999) are used to restrict access to Field 1 so that users only see the records that they should see. Is there a reason your not letting the system do this work for you? Are you trying to do something like: Login as User

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Bloom
A questionnaire is going out shortly to the attendees for their opinion, once we have seen that I can give a formal response (on behalf of the Board). Currently we are planning based on October 18-22, 2010 and Las Vegas at least is our first choice. We like Hard Rock Hotel, however there have

Re: query against AssignedToGroup (dynamic group)

2009-11-20 Thread Brien Dieterle
I believe I'm using the permissions-model correctly but maybe I am extending it too much. I'm using a 4-layered approach. Users can view the records in this table based on row-level access to field 1 if they are in any one of the following: Submitter, Assigneee, AssigneeGroup(112), or a

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Tommy Morris
Just a thought concerning the location for next year (in Vegas of course), check out the convention area at City Center. They are going to be pretty hard-up to stay full considering their financial floundering to get the entire project completed. They are already trying to coax people in with low

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Shellman, David
Tommy, My round trip flight (United) and 4 night's at the Hardrock for this year was $800. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Tommy Morris Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:44 PM To:

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Jason Miller
Yeah, the price was very reasonable. My daily meal per diem was almost as much as the nightly room rate. Jason On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Shellman, David dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com wrote: ** Tommy, My round trip flight (United) and 4 night's at the Hardrock for this year

Anne-Marie Smith/RICH/FRS is out of the office.

2009-11-20 Thread Anne-Marie smith
I will be out of the office starting 11/05/2009 and will not return until 11/24/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. If you require an immediate response please contact Bill Schuchman or Tom Davidson - Thank you

Re: Development Cache Mode revisited

2009-11-20 Thread Lyle Taylor
Concerning the other servers in the server group, the behavior is discussed in one of the AR server guides, but I'm not sure which one (it's been a while since I read it). It probably wouldn't be too hard to find if needed. In a nutshell, though, each of the servers in the server group

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Doug Blair
Jason, You bought food at WWRUG? I admit that a continental breakfast is just rolls, juice and coffee, but those pastries were tasty. The conference included that breakfast, and lunch every day, and three receptions with plenty to eat. I think we bought exactly one meal that week. And

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Shellman, David
** Doug, Sssh. Now you let the cat out of the bag for those folks that could claim a per diem. When I worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service back in the early 80's we got $35 for food whether we spent it or not. Dave - dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com (Wireless)

Re: Strored procedures in Sybase vs Oracle

2009-11-20 Thread L G Robinson
Hi Folks, I wanted to report back on how I resolved my problem with converting Sybase stored procedures to Oracle. But first let me thank all of the folks who responded and offered suggestions. As it turns out, Oracle procedures do not return values, but Oracle FUNCTIONS do. The only catch is

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Jason Miller
I did buy a few meals since my wife came with me. We met up a few times to grab something to eat. I would have been very happy surviving off of what was supplied. 2009/11/20 Doug Blair d...@blairing.com ** Jason, You bought food at WWRUG? I admit that a continental breakfast is just

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Jason Miller
Yup, leave it up to somebody who paid for the conference them self to ruin it for us that didn't. :) I already told my manager that I would pay for myself if she decides send somebody else next year. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Shellman, David dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com wrote: **

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Doug Blair
Dave, I didn't say I didn't claim my per diem. I just didn't waste it on food! And seriously, WWRUG is a good deal. D Doug -- Doug Blair Sent from my iPhone, typographic errors likely +1-224-558-5462 On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Shellman, David dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com wrote:

Re: WWRUG 2010

2009-11-20 Thread Tami Palacky
the hard rock was awesome! totally rockin 24 x 7, loved it! Dan -- if you change the name to match the verson, we might be looking at WWRUG09 part 2 :) On Nov 20, 7:24 pm, Doug Blair d...@blairing.com wrote: Dave, I didn't say I didn't claim my per diem. I just didn't waste it on food!