Re: Question on Web Inf Change

2011-06-22 Thread Mahesh
Are you using the Approval Console ? Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:33 PM, pritch pri...@ptd.net wrote: Using the web client, my folks are approving (or rejecting) requests. The approval is recorded and processed by the approval server. The users do not think the approval went

Re: Getting error: BMCATRIUM_NGIE000204: Error getting data stores

2011-06-22 Thread Jason Miller
Good call. I just tried it and unfortunately that did not do the trick. I think we are going to have to schedule a reboot of the app server to see if that changes anything. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Francois Seegers franco...@blueturtle.co.za wrote: ** What about the mid-tier cache

Re: Getting error: BMCATRIUM_NGIE000204: Error getting data stores

2011-06-22 Thread Peter Romain
We had the same issue here. In addition the Carte server stopped when the DOS window was closed. Support knew of this and suggested creating a new task in the Windows Task Scheduler to run a new bat file on startup that contained: D: cd D:\Program Files (x86)\BMC

Migrating Audit forms

2011-06-22 Thread Mr. Tee
Hi ARS-LIST Running out of good ideas, I’m turning to you guys for a cry for help I’m having trouble migrating Audit forms. The problem is that when migrating the main form, it will automatically create the audit forms, it will also create the Audit change fields (F_Field ID_C), which are

Re: Problem with Status History in .NET API

2011-06-22 Thread André Delcroix
Thanks Appajee. It does the job :-) André On 21/06/2011 18:48, Papolu, Appajee wrote: string Encode(StatusHistory sh) { string encoded = ; System.DateTime unixEpoch = new System.DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); foreach (StatusHistoryItem item in

Data sources and data views in Dashboards 7.6.03

2011-06-22 Thread Mr. Tee
Hi ARS-LIST, I have a question regarding data sources and data views in BMC Dashboards 7.6.03. I would like to know if it is true what I experience using the pod-builder in dashboards: When creating a new pod - then I also need to create a dataview from an excel sheet data source. My

Re: Migrating Audit forms

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Chernys
Just take some defs of the correct workflow (environment), edit those defs with the new ids (carefully, not to run into collisions), and load up the edited defs with the changed ids. The names will cause the filters to be replaced with the edited ones. There are certainly other ways. But this

Re: Migrating Audit forms

2011-06-22 Thread Mr. Tee
Hi Ben and ARS-LIST, Problem is now solved, I did this: 1. I deleted the formely migrated Audit form. 2. Migrated the Main form (Infrastructure Change) and the corresponding Audit form using Def files. 3. Added the Audit form to the Deployable application. 4. Checked the ID’s (they were

Re: Data sources and data views in Dashboards 7.6.03

2011-06-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I think your best bet is to use a relational DB of some sort instead of excel. Dashboards can only look at single sources like excel. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Mr. Tee Sent: Wed 6/22/2011 6:04 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports

2011-06-22 Thread Ron Tavares
Good Morning Listers, You how when you open a .csv file in Excel, Microsoft will do it's magic and start changing the format of certain values? As an example, it will drop the leading zeros form a value because it assumes it is numeric, (like a serial number). So you have to fix the data,

Re: Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports

2011-06-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I've used Access for things like that -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ron Tavares Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports **

Re: Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports

2011-06-22 Thread Lucero, Michelle
Hi, Ron: The trick to retaining the leading zeros found in a CSV file in Excel is to import the file instead of opening. If using Excel 2007, I've made a habit of... 1. Clicking the 'Data' tab 2. Clicking 'From Text' in the Get External Data section 3. Select the CSV file from the

Re: Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
You got to set the format of the column type to text.. As someone else said, Access is much better for such jobs as it retains values as is.. It has got a broader range of functionality that is more SQL like which is easier for us that work with data stored in standard RDBMS’s in case you

SRM 7.6.04 Work Order Approval Process

2011-06-22 Thread Tina Flores
Hi ARS listers, My client has a business need to have an Approval Process on the Work Order form. I see that there's a Work Order Status = Waiting Approval as well as a hidden Approvers tab on the forn. But there's no approval process defined. For the approval process to work, does it only

Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Drew Shuller
Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me if there would be any severe gotchas when going into the Group form and changing the Group Name of one of my groups? I would need to check for any workflow qualifications that use group names, but would there be anything else to watch out for? Thanks for the

reporting on changed values

2011-06-22 Thread Brien Dieterle
Hi List. I've been setting up auditing to track changes in values for forms for a while. Trouble is, I can't think of an easy way to report on these changes. For instance, we have a need to find tickets that were in state X and then transitioned to directly to state Y. We're not using the

SSO and Pass Thru

2011-06-22 Thread Tanner, Doug
List, We are testing an implementation of SSO, all is working fine except - We have a survey link which has a User Name, Password Entry ID of a survey record (Example)

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Alejandro Canon
If you need to change OOTB Group names (i.e Incident Master, Incident Submitter and so on) please try to reconsider it. There are several workflow objects (Active Links, Filters) built based on Run If qualifications that use Group Name. In case of Custom Group names there should be no problems

Re: reporting on changed values

2011-06-22 Thread LJ LongWing
Brien, You need to do a self join on the form to get the previous records status. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brien Dieterle Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: SIM BMC

2011-06-22 Thread patrick zandi
Service Impact Manager:: you have servers with Services like ARS, Oracle, etc.. if the Mid-tier goes down, it will so the Service that is impacted.. Vice the Server... it is also great for J2EE applications, etc... so you don't think the mid-tier is the problem when it is the Oracle connection to

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Yup it won’t be as simple as changing login names.. Even if it is not OTB groups if you have customization workflow based on customized groups, it would still present that same problem.. Exporting def files in xml format and looking for those group names and replacing them should work but it

Re: server group delinquency, inaccurate

2011-06-22 Thread Ramey, Anne
I had another incorrect failover this morning. The secondary server was responding and processing user requests fine (as far as customers and monitoring reported) but there is a nearly 2 minute gap in the sql log-where of course no updates are made to the servgrp_board table. According to

Re: reporting on changed values

2011-06-22 Thread Brien Dieterle
Self join on the audit form? I was describing a subquery (which is probably the same thing). But the real problem is how to restrict results to that exact parameter (Records where State was X and then went to Y). That is, I can run a query against the audit form and retrieve a list of audit

Re: Excel frustration with AIE and Data Imports

2011-06-22 Thread Theo Fondse
Hi Ron! You could try CSVed to see if it works for you: http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html Best Regards, Theo Sent from my Black/Silver Personal Computer Try not to become a person of success, but a person of value. - Albert Einstein From: Action Request System discussion

Re: SSO and Pass Thru

2011-06-22 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Does it have to be https? If not you can add port 8080 and bypass IIS completely. When passing user and password you may also need to switch to the ViewFormServlet type of URL (This is according to page 124 of the Mid-Tier manual).

Re: NEWS !!! ITSM Suite Application (No Cost)

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Gidd, Long time What are the system setup requirements.. OS, DB, etc.? Joe From: Gidd Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1:06 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: NEWS !!! ITSM Suite Application (No Cost) ** ARS Users: ESS@Work is now

Re: NEWS !!! ITSM Suite Application (No Cost)

2011-06-22 Thread Gidd
Joe, OS? ARS 7.x and DB of your choice? Installation instructions included in the zip file. HTH Regards...Gidd _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:05 AM To:

Re: SSO and Pass Thru

2011-06-22 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi Doug, I do something very similar and I see that the order of information is slightly different than you have it. https://mid_tier_server/arsys/servlet/ViewFormServlet?form=eSurveyamp;server=server alisasamp;username=esurveyusernameamp;pwd=Silosb160amp;eid=SRV-256 Running ARS 6.3

Re: SSO and Pass Thru

2011-06-22 Thread Tanner, Doug
Thanks Mark, trying it now. Doug -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brittain, Mark Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: SSO and Pass Thru Hi Doug, I do something very

Re: SSO and Pass Thru

2011-06-22 Thread Tanner, Doug
Thanks, Must be https (Security folks :)) Doug P.S. Trying the ViewFormServlet now -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Questions about SSL-enabling the 7.6.04 midtier

2011-06-22 Thread Marshalonis, Dave [USA]
I have a stupid question. I have a 7.6.04 midtier server running IIS 7.0 and apache tomcat 6.0.32 and we want to ssl enable the midtier. Do I need just SSL enable IIS or do I need to also SSL enable tomcat? Do I need to do anything with the redirector? Thanks... -dave

Re: SIM BMC

2011-06-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
FYI, BEM/SIM will be replaced by their ProActive Net suite of applications. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of patrick zandi Sent: Wed 6/22/2011 12:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: SIM BMC Service Impact Manager:: you have

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Drew Shuller
Thanks guys. I should have mentioned that it's a little 6.3 custom system. Finding related workflow would be pretty easy. My notification workflow runs from the Assigned To Group menu, which is set up to have the same value as the actual Group name. But that's a manual process and I put one of

Re: Questions about SSL-enabling the 7.6.04 midtier

2011-06-22 Thread Axton
SSL enable whatever your end users hit. In your case, IIS. You should not need to change anything with Tomcat or with the connector you use between IIS and Tomcat. Axton On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Marshalonis, Dave [USA] marshalonis_d...@bah.com wrote: ** I have a stupid question.

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I’d still think it would be easier to mend your workflow than mend a group name.. Mending workflow using export of defs to an xml file is easy breezy.. its almost easier done than said.. that easy.. Especially in your case since you say it’s a home grown system, I cannot imagine there being

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Drew Shuller
Even less, Joe! On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza jdso...@shyle.netwrote: ** I’d still think it would be easier to mend your workflow than mend a group name.. Mending workflow using export of defs to an xml file is easy breezy.. its almost easier done than said.. that

Re: Changing the Group Name

2011-06-22 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
It shouldn’t be a big deal then to change the workflow on development and test it and then roll out to acceptance and production.. I would see a weeks work max which include code change by way of massaging the def files, testing on dev, moving to acceptance and then having the changes ready

Remedy User Tool has 20 second delay after a period of inactivity 40 minutes

2011-06-22 Thread remedymarv
ARS Prod 7.5 gives a pause/delay after 40 min of inactivity in the user too Hi, first post! I recently inherited a Windows-based Remedy system, even though I am a Linux guy. For Remedy there is consistent pause / delay in ARS Prod 7.5 from the user (client) tool (you see the circle, seems

Re: Remedy User Tool has 20 second delay after a period of inactivity 40 minutes

2011-06-22 Thread remedymarv
Hi -- first post- thought I was signed up for the arslist but my posts kept getting rejected. Looks like it finally went through. Not sure where to start. Have turned on logging on the server. Pursuing these options. 1) will going from tcp + udp to tcp only help? 2) will adjusting any settings

Re: Remedy User Tool has 20 second delay after a period of inactivity 40 minutes

2011-06-22 Thread LJ LongWing
Marvin, Two things pop to mind with the scenario you have described 1 - The delay is caused by a re-login to the remedy server after a connection timeoutyou can verify this by either checking the user.log (if you have it turned on), or by checking your user license log (available in 7.5, if