Re: ARReload Issue - Please Help

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
I am getting the below error after running the given command. Any help would be appreciated. C:\Program Files\AR System\serverarreload -a myadmin -p password -g 1 -l 1 Unrecognized command line option (ARERR 601) -l C:\Program Files\AR System\serverarreload -a myadmin -p password -g 1

ARS 7.1 in a server group - URGENT

2010-03-29 Thread Frex Popo
Dear all,   Does ARS 7.1 or 7.5 require any additional non BMC software to be present before performing the installation in a server group environment? I know that apart from installing the SQL server client (in our case) on all the nodes in the server group before installing ARS, no other

Re: ARS 7.1 in a server group - URGENT

2010-03-29 Thread Roger Justice
No it does not require additional software. The installation has been improved in 7.5. -Original Message- From: Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 8:19 am Subject: ARS 7.1 in a server group - URGENT ** Dear all, Does ARS 7.1 or 7.5

Re: ARS 7.1 in a server group - URGENT

2010-03-29 Thread Frex Popo
Many thanks Roger.. --- En date de : Lun 29.3.10, Roger Justice rjust2...@aol.com a écrit : De: Roger Justice rjust2...@aol.com Objet: Re: ARS 7.1 in a server group - URGENT À: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Lundi 29 mars 2010, 14h51 ** No it does not require additional software. The installation

Re: Service Request In Process encountered an event error

2010-03-29 Thread Charles Baldi
What version of ITSM do you have (not ARS)? There was a bug in an earlier release of 7.0.3 that was fixed in one of the patches (patch 4 I think). Other than that, this error usually means that you do not have configurations that map the Request selections to proper Incident defaults. Turn on

Re: Reporting on more than one form

2010-03-29 Thread Marsh, Lee
You could use Crystal and run the archive search and report as a subreport. Hope this helps. Lee Marsh. * Lee Marsh Remedy Administrator BAE Systems Office Automation Systems Team Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice Phone: 202-305-9725

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementor

2010-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Actually, the same person can be the change requester, change manager, change assignee and change implementer (or task implementer), on top of approving/rejecting the change request. This very open OOTB design and lack of rules has created issues for us, and we had to create customizations to

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Marsh, Lee
When a user (IT support staff) leaves we: Transfer any records (INC, PBI, AM, etc) assigned to user. Remove user from all of the support groups and roles. Remove user's permissions. Change the user's password. Set users people record to off-line. This should resolve any access issues you have.

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementor

2010-03-29 Thread strauss
Where do SOD (segregation of duties??) rules come from?? It looks like it is from the financial world, not ITIL, since there is no mention of them whatsoever in the book I am reading on Implementing ITIL Change and Release Management by Larry Klosterboer. ITIL does not appear to prohibit

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
Thanks Lee Marsh, We followed your instructions too. But still we are able to login. Any help? Thanks Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Marsh, Lee Sent: Monday,

Incident status Report with time calculation of an assignee individual or assigned group

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
Hi All, Please help us on incident reporting. We required the total time spent on assigned group level and assignee level with each status (from status new to status closed). It should also tell us about the overall time spent on an incident. All the timings we required on minutes only not

How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Wacholz, Jenni
Hi List, I have one very specific situation in which I need to close all open browser windows from an active link. I know how to redirect back to the login screen but that doesn't actually remove the login information from Explorer. So if the user tries to login from there they are logged in as

Re: ARReload Issue - Please Help (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-29 Thread Luttmann, Michael W CTR USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Is that a lowercase L or a lowercase I? Michael W. Luttmann Lead Remedy Developer Fort Carson NEC If you don't like change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. Gen Shinseki -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread jham36
I found this on page 126 and 127 of the 7.1 mid tier guide. http://mid_tier_server/arsys/servlet/LogoutServlet?goto=URL The user logs out and goes directly to the specified URL You can call the LogoutServlet and then redirect them to the login page or anywhere else you want. James On Mar 29,

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementor

2010-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Financial applications are defined in our environment as Application CIs. These applications run on databases and servers which are also in the CMDB. So here is a very simple scenario: If you follow Sarbanes Oxley rules, you cannot approve and implement changes for financial applications: these

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementor

2010-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Now, the ironic thing, is that for organizations to be SARBOX compliant, they need to implement a change mgmt process (and tool therefore), which would be ITIL compliant. but OOTB, the ITIL tool is not SARBOX complaint!! so we're coming full circle. Ironic isn't it?

Re: How does ARSetEntry work ? (Java ARS 5.1)

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Molenda
LOL! -- Forwarded message -- From: ARSlist LISTSERV Server (14.4) lists...@listserv.rbugs.com Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:41 AM Subject: Rejected posting to arsl...@listserv.rbugs.com To: robert.mole...@gmail.com Your  message is  being returned  to you  unprocessed because  

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Marsh, Lee
The administrator should be able to login with the changed password, no one else should know this password. Depending on your settings, the user may also be able to login as a requester or guest. As a requester, you have limited read/write access to the calls you create but you cannot change

Re: ARReload Issue - Please Help (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
It's a lowercase l. Thanks Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Luttmann, Michael W CTR USA Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
As you mentioned below, First point - yes, you are right like only admin will able to login with the changed password, because he only do changes the password. Second - we have disabled guest. For sometime, if we forget about the support staff, even a ordinary user can able to login. Third - We

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Shellman, David
If the password for the person has been reset in the User form and you have Guest access disabled, I don't see how the person can be logging in. Activate your user log and send us what is showing up in the log when the person logs in. Dave -Original Message- From: Action Request

Dumb Question (but it is Monday)

2010-03-29 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All, Yeah these are really dumb questions that I should know but I have a behavior that makes me doubt myself. 1. When a record on Form A is created from an email template is that a submit or a merge? 2. Record on Form A is created from an email template, then Form A pushes to Form B. Do

Re: Dumb Question (but it is Monday)

2010-03-29 Thread Nicky Madjarov
1. submit 2. no Regards, Nicky Madjarov phone: 973-202-4278 Find out how to bust your AR System performance @ http://www.SpeedUpARS.com - Original Message - From: Brittain, Mark Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Wacholz, Jenni
Thanks, James! That's what I'm doing now but no matter what I put after the goto= I just get the Remedy login screen back. Here's what I have in my Run Process: http://actualservername/arsys/servlet/LogoutServlet?goto=http://cvtynet.cvty.com/. I also tried it as

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementer

2010-03-29 Thread Marsh, Lee
Can't you still separate roles using Remedy change configuration rules, approval mappings, and AP-administration? The software is not the process nor does it control the process. The organization still has its own processes and rules. ITSM is a way to capture the data for service

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementer

2010-03-29 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
From our experience in recently implementing CHM 7.0.3, relying on business process as your ONLY means of enforcement of segregation of duties is something that sounds good on paper but not on the pavement. As in previous posts, we've had to use custom filters to enforce the business process of

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Marsh, Lee
I don't know, I have never encountered this problem. Sorry I couldn't help further. Lee.   * Lee Marsh Remedy Administrator BAE Systems Office Automation Systems Team Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice Phone:  202-305-9725  Cell:  202-528-1749

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Martinez, Marcelo A
The way I disable users who have left the company is: Set record in CTM:People to Delete and remove login LoginID/password. Under Access Restrictions there should be no companies listed. You can use the remove login ID option under other functions on the left nav pane. Historical data regarding

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementer

2010-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
My first point is that what really matters is what the external auditors tell your CIO about the current state and the level of control on your change management process and tool. What we think or would like to think has minimal weight compared to the audit report that gets forwarded to the

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementer

2010-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I cannot agree more. I think the next frontier is to be SARBOX compliant, in addition to be ITIL compliant. Now that would be a very competitive edge for BMC Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread jham36
I don't know what's wrong. I just tried it on my mid tier and it worked. I did it without an active link. I manually entered the URL in the address bar. http://actualservername/arsys/servlet/LogoutServlet?goto=http;//www.msn.com How are you calling the active link? James On Mar 29, 11:24 

Re: MSI Installer for Remedy 7.5 WUT

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Halstead
Thanks for the responses. We have downloaded a freeware MSI builder and have created an MSI as well for our needs.. Hopefully it will work.. Testing currently as well. Also, does anyone know of the System Requirements for the User tool? Installing the WUT onto a fresh copy of XP (using the java

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
Filter log or active link log? Thanks Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Wacholz, Jenni
It fires on Window Loaded. I can see in the AL web log that is it firing. And the warning message that is the action before the run process in that active link is displayed correctly. Sounds like I'll have to go to BMC with this one. Thanks for trying, James! Jenni Wacholz 480-445-2517 WFH

Email Error

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Rondeau
AR system 7.1 patch 7 for Email Engine Anyone know why the following errors in the stderr.log for email. Error Log: SEVERE: Not connected java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not connected at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.checkConnected(SMTPTransport.java:1511) at

Attachment name in email template

2010-03-29 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All, I have situation where the ticket on one Remedy server creates a ticket on another Remedy server using an email template. This worked fine until it was determined that an attachment needs to be included. Of course the file name is different each time so I can't hard code the name.

Re: Refreshing parent form display following child action - Not solved afterall

2010-03-29 Thread LJ Longwing
Dwayne, That's the nature of the results listif the entry you are editing is the only one in the list and you modify it so it doesn't qualify for that list anymore, then you get that message 'no data'the only way to avoid it is to make it so that the results list is not dependent on a qual

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Ram Rudra
Hi Dave, We have enabled this user log by going to server information tab .Please find the below user log information- USER TID: 003144 RPC ID: 006209 Queue: Admin Client-RPC: 390620USER: Remedy Application Service /* Mon Mar 29 2010 22:14:32.5780 */User Trace Log -- ON

Re: Refreshing parent form display following child action - Not solved afterall

2010-03-29 Thread Martin, Dwayne
Thanks, LJ, This is what I figured. I was hoping that somebody had some magical way around the problem. I can hardly control what queries the users are allowed to run, so I guess abandon the project. But it was fun while it lasted! Dwayne From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Refreshing parent form display following child action - Not solved afterall

2010-03-29 Thread LJ Longwing
Sure you can control itwhy wouldn't you be able to :).if you don't want them opening the form in search mode, have an AL that looks for that operation, if it finds it close the form and open your control panel:) _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Refreshing parent form display following child action - Not solved afterall

2010-03-29 Thread Martin, Dwayne
It depends on what you mean by can. I CAN stop people from running queries, but then they'd fire and the next guy would let them do all sorts of stuff they shouldn't. Is it Friday yet? Dwayne From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Shellman, David
Is one of these two, the user account in question? That is the account that had the password changed to prevent login? Dave -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ram Rudra Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:17 PM

Escalation Oddity (or email oddity?)

2010-03-29 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I have a very simple escalation that changes a status. I then have a Filter that when the status is changed (to Expired) a notification goes out (via an email). The AR System Email Messages form shows that it was Sent but no email is ever sent. When I manually flip the status to Expired, the

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Miller
Hi Jenni, Try this in your Run Process javascript:location='http:// actualservername/arsys/servlet/LogoutServlet?goto=http://cvtynet.cvty.com' This will tell your browser's address bar to call the LogoutServlet which will do the redirect to cvtynet.cvty.com. If you want to close the browser

Re: ARS 7.5 User Cache Gremlin

2010-03-29 Thread Mueller, Doug
Christopher, What you are seeing here -- the word INVALID being the password in the user_cache record -- is a characteristic of the system disabling the account. This word will never hash from any password so the account is inherently disabled but we can find all accounts that have been

Re: AR System Clients and API's

2010-03-29 Thread Gopal-srg
Hi, Thank you for this information.I have gone through these logs, it is really of great help. But i wanted to know one more thing, how these commands are getting initiated from the User tool, which file from the ARUser installed directory initiates this command sequence. Please provide this

Re: User is able to login after making status to OFFLINE

2010-03-29 Thread Roger Justice
If you changed the password you can login since you know the password the user cannot since I hope you do not give them the new password. -Original Message- From: Ram Rudra rambabu.ru...@gssamerica.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 10:20 am Subject: Re: User is able

ITSM 7.7

2010-03-29 Thread Frank, Gordon M. (CMS/CTR)
I heard a rumor that a version 7.7 was soon to be released. Has anyone heard anything? Gordon M. Frank Lockheed Martin ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist:

Re: MSI Installer for Remedy 7.5 WUT

2010-03-29 Thread Lyle Taylor
Are you packaging up an installed copy of the use tool? If so, it’s entirely possible that the original installer does include them but places them in system directories instead of in the application installation directory. In that case, you would simply need to include the missing files in

Re: Incident status Report with time calculation of an assignee individual or assigned group

2010-03-29 Thread Lyle Taylor
You could get a fair bit of that information from the Incident audit log. Each time an audited field changes values, it creates a new audit log entry when the ticket is saved. You could tell what statuses it has been in and for how long by parsing that information out of the audit log. The

Re: AR System Clients and API's

2010-03-29 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, You need to know a lot of things to understand this. For example if a user hits a button, one or more Active-Link-Actions may be triggered. These actions are defined through the AR Admin Tool / Developer Studio (from version 7.5). If the ACTL-action was a Set-Field, the system performs one

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Wacholz, Jenni
Hi Jason, Closing the window is more important in this case than actually logging out of Remedy as the main requirement is to force users to log back into Remedy using their correct credentials. This AL only fires if the user is logged in with one specific generic account ID. The

Re: AR System Clients and API's

2010-03-29 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi again, One more thing. If you are doing performance tuning, you do not need to understand everything. Check out the presentation I did during WWRUG09, where I point out the most interesting API-calls: http://rrr.se/doc/WWRUG09_RRR_LogFilePerformanceTuning.pdf Best Regards - Misi,

Re: MSI Installer for Remedy 7.5 WUT

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Halstead
well.. on a fresh updated copy of XP, the regular java installer from BMC does not include those files. At least not in patch 004 of 7.5. So what required applications do I need to install before installing the user tool? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Lyle Taylor tayl...@ldschurch.org wrote:

Re: ITSM 7.7

2010-03-29 Thread Easter, David
There is a tentative expectation that ITSM will release a new version in the Summer 2010 time frame. -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management BMC Software, Inc.   The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily

Operation and Product Cats

2010-03-29 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, Are businesses using the same Operational Categorizations for Change Management and Incident Management? Or should these Operational values be different across both applications? One person in the BMC Community forum said it is best practice to have the same Operational

Re: Operation and Product Cats

2010-03-29 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
Well first off the developer is wrong if he is talking about ITSM 7.01. The Operational Categories are setup to be visible by application (or in the case of Incident it can be configured down to the Service Type). I would think the categorization for Incident and Change would differ since

Re: Operation and Product Cats

2010-03-29 Thread Rick Cook
I think it would be difficult to use identical sets, because of the reactive vs. Proactive nature of the apps. However, the same principles could apply, making the sets structurally similar with somewhat different verbiage. Rick -Original Message- From: Kathy Morris

Re: Operation and Product Cats

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Halstead
Our company uses a more problematic categories for the Incident side of things. Categories like (Video - DVR - No Signal for customer's experiencing a no signal on their dvr). For the Change side of the house, we use a more change oriented categories like Application Modification or System

Re: How can I close browser windows from an active link?

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Miller
Sorry I do not. I found the opener='x' trick while I was replying. We have used the window.close for a while and was looking up the exact syntax when I stumbled upon this additional step. I didn't test it thoroughly enough though To test I put it behind a button on a test form that is set as

Re: MSI Installer for Remedy 7.5 WUT

2010-03-29 Thread Lyle Taylor
I see. I appear to have misunderstood your last e-mail - I thought that your generated MSI was failing (as opposed to BMC’s installer). In that case, I would recommend working with BMC support to determine prerequisites, etc.. The compatibility matrix and installation guide should indicate

Re: Email Error

2010-03-29 Thread Lyle Taylor
Are any e-mails getting sent out successfully? My first thought is that it may be having issues connecting to the mail server, or the connection is getting reset before the e-mail engine expects, so when it tries to go and do some next action, the connection is no longer valid. Lyle

Re: Change Manager - Change Implementor

2010-03-29 Thread Lyle Taylor
I agree with Christopher; SOD is not specified by ITIL and so doesn't necessarily need to be enforced by default by the application supporting the processes. SOD is a policy decision. That said, it would be nice if Change Management had the ability to support policies like this. And that

Re: ARS 7.5 User Cache Gremlin

2010-03-29 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Christopher, If you turn on user-logging, you will get a row for each bad-password-attempt. It is then easy to search the log to find the time of your problem. The string to search for is LOGIN FAILED with (password) at the end of the line. Maybe you will see another suffix when the account is