Re: Install 7.6.4

2011-09-23 Thread Walters, Mark
The Email Engine has three options for incoming mail on Windows - POP3, IMAP and MAPI. MAPI is only available for Exchange so you have the choice of POP33 or IMAP - your mail server admins should be able to advise which one to use. The choice of protocol and mailbox are all done within the

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread Walters, Mark
It may be memory but I would expect to see malloc errors (ARERR 300) in the arerror.log if this was the case. The fact you're not seeing a stack trace like this; Mon Sep 20 08:33:52 2010 6 Timestamp: Mon Sep 20 2010 08:33:52.1865 Thread Id: 4 Version: 7.1.00 Patch 009 201009200800

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Chernys
Hi Mark, Patrick, Signal 11 is SIGSEGV which is not necessarily a malloc failure though indeed a malloc failure may lead to it. It is not always possible to log malloc failures - after all it takes some memory to cut a log record. A segmentation violation is always the result of bad

Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Venkat Maddala
I will be posting on FB all the images from WWRUG this year stay tuned for more pics and updates https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.276325789053517.72118.10282939180l=54365687cctype=1 The settings on the album are public and everyone should be able to view them, if any one faces

ARERR 314 Field does not exist on Current form

2011-09-23 Thread Narayanan, Radhika
Hi List, Can you share your thoughts on troubleshooting this error that occurs on Developer Studio 7.6.03 ? Whenever a new field is added or an existing field is modified on a form (any type of form), I get the below error: Save failed on form name Field does not exist on Current form field id

Tool for getting data out of Service Desk Express to Remedy 7.6.4

2011-09-23 Thread Manjari Shrestha
Hello, Would you know if there is a BMC tool out there which can bring in data from Service Desk Express 10 to BMC Remedy 7.6.4? Any guidance will be very much appreciated. Thanks Manjari Shrestha ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: Tool for getting data out of Service Desk Express to Remedy 7.6.4

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Chernys
Meta-Update can do this. See www.softwaretoolhouse.com Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Software Tool House Inc. Canada / Deutschland / Germany Mobile: +49 171 380 2329GMT + 1 + [ DST ] Email: Ben.Chernys _AT_ softwaretoolhouse.com Web:

Re: ARERR 314 Field does not exist on Current form

2011-09-23 Thread Cecil, Ken
Does this happen when dev studio is run from another machine? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Narayanan, Radhika Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 7:12 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARERR 314 Field

Re: Oracle stored procedure call ...

2011-09-23 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
call probably works in MS SQL but doesn't work for Oracle. Execute works if you run it via SQLPlus but doesn't work in a filter. From what I can tell you must have a begin and end (for oracle) and it must be on one line. Just putting it in the ARSList archives because I know I will forget

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Pancia
Rick's white paper can be found here: https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-3231#comment-3060 Rick great white paper with some sound advice for people implementing the ITSM Suite. I'm curious to see more examples from everyone though. The challenge I am seeing is that the ITSM

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread patrick zandi
Perplexing is the (no core bombs) We are running fine and them Boom, we get that signal: and armonitor shuts the arserverd down and restarts a new one.. What I was hoping was someone would Say I remember that.. and Patch X,Y,Z fixed that.. I did conplete logging and the log stops and the log

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
Try running a ulimit -a to find the limits available to the user running remedy (make sure you are logged in as that user). Check a couple of things: find the process number of the arserverd process and do a pfiles {processed} -- compare to the ulimit of open files Do a top and hit shift M to

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
Actually, things like Update - Employee - Payroll Remove - Employee - Benefits Add - Employee - Training Update - Employee - Record In Process - Employee - Badge would be better tracked as Business Services. So the OpCats associated with those would be to Add/Update/Remove -- Account --

Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Shellman, David
Any one that has photos can post them to the World Wide Remedy User Group Facebook page as well. Dave - dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com (Wireless) - Original Message - From: Venkat Maddala [mailto:venkata.madd...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 06:56

Re: ARERR 314 Field does not exist on Current form

2011-09-23 Thread Narayanan, Radhika
Hi, Yes, it does. On 3 machines , with different workspace folders, I get ARERR 314 Field does not exist on Current form field id. On 2 machines, on any workspace folder, I get a warning ARWARN 489 At least one set field failed in a multi-field operation. However, Patch installation and Sync

Re: Oracle stored procedure call ...

2011-09-23 Thread Cecil, Ken
Call is portable and works for both Oracle and Microsoft for me. Here is the language reference for each in case you want to try it. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17118/statement s_4008.htm#i2119950

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread patrick zandi
Ulimit = unlimited looking at all the services running:: all under 500 (pfiles pid) arserverd says 1654 memory in use 1615 RSS.. with Prstat -J no core bombs, no crashes.. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Garrison, Sean (Norcross) sean.garri...@fiserv.com wrote: ** Try running a ulimit

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Pancia
Rick - very interesting. I have a situation right now where there is huge debate on what to track in each of the apps. Do requests belong in Incident Management? The debate in this situation is around password resets. This organization looks at them as requests and currently put them in the

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Luttmann, Michael W Mr CTR DISA CD553
I have worked on systems that use both methods, and found the verb-noun-noun to be most confusing for most users. How can you be certain that the verb you just chose will get you to the system you are looking for by the time you reach Tier 3? I prefer a methodology of General to specific: -

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
I am not an ITIL expert, but it would seem that the dividing line between an Incident request and a Change request would be whether a change to a CI was required. For a password reset, I think Incident. Remember that Change Management is really Configuration Management - Management of the

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Gard, Richard J
IMHO - it is neither Incident nor Change but a Service Request. The password function is not broken; it is doing what it is supposed to do by keeping you out when the password expires or is compromised. As Rick said, you are not managing passwords as CIs. Service Requests offer users a means to

Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, Is there a standard port to use for AR System on 7.6.4 install. I thought before it was 1521 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: Where the Answers

Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Great seeing a lot of you folks at the RUG! Any chance of posting pics to a public web album site like Picasa or Flickr? This is for those of us who may not be on Facebook... ahem.. like me. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Shellman, David
The WWRUG Facebook page is open and even those that do not have Facebook account should be able to see the page. If you have problems seeing please let me know. Dave - dave.shell...@tycoelectronics.com (Wireless) - Original Message - From: Chowdhury, Tauf

WWRUG observation: The list... what list?

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Just an observation: It was interesting for me to discover a lot of people who did not know about ARSlist. I was introduced to ARSlist about the same time I started administering and developing in ARS so for me, the two go hand in hand. I can't imagine what it would be like to wake up one day and

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
1521 is the default port for Oracle DB's in the TNS configuration. If you are talking about TCP port, you can either specify a default like 7000 or use port mapper and not need to specify a port. There is a setting in ar.cfg called TCD-specific port (name?) which you can set as well for the port

Re: Oracle stored procedure call ...

2011-09-23 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
I get this ARERR [552] Failure during SQL operation to the database : ORA-00911: invalid character when I do the following: {CALL Test_SP2();} {CALL Test_SP2;} {CALL Test_SP2} CALL Test_SP2; CALL Test_SP2 Let me know if you have better luck than I do. Thanks Sean From: Action Request System

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Marsh, Lee
We generally use a template in remedy’s incident management for password unlocks and resets. The Incident type is set to User Service Request. An incident is indicated by a service restoration either at the user or infrastructure level. Under ITIL and incident is characterized by a service

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
My 2 cents on this as I have had to set the strategy for our organization to normalize, harmonize, integrate, and de-confuse (is that even a word?) in understanding the difference and similarities between CTI, Service Catalog (front end), and CMDB service modeling. It’s a lot to type so maybe

Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Oh cool! Thanks Dave. I'll check it out. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:29 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011 The WWRUG

Re: Pics from WWRUG 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Copits
For those of us who weren't able to attend, any chance of having titles on the pictures wo we can see who's who? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:40 AM To:

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Danny Kellett
Hi, That is the standard Oracle TCP port. Not the AR Server one. You can choose and its saved in the ar.cfg as TCD-Specific-Port Regards Danny From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: 23 September 2011 16:10

OT: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
There needs to be a new award for next year’s RUG for: “Wordiest Posts!” From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Marsh, Lee Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:48 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Age old debate - categorizations

Re: OT: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
One thing to keep in mind is that there isn't one perfect way to do this. Like ITIL, there are some rules and some guidelines, but the rest should be based on what works for your company. So let's keep this a sharing of ideas, and not let it descend into a Holy War of any kind. Rick On Sep 23,

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Tommy Morris
Or longest signature J Man some of these government guys have everything except their desk location and lunch box combination. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:52 AM To:

Re: Oracle stored procedure call ...

2011-09-23 Thread Bennett, Craig
I run a few stored procs from filters in a Direct SQL action CALL hyd_ldap_reset_flags_proc() PROCEDURE HYD_LDAP_UPDATE_INX_PROC IS BEGIN -- many lines of comments -- many statements -- a few commits END; From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Chernys
1521 is the standard port for databases. Remedy has no standard port. Port mapper allows your clients to not set a port. If you want a port, just pick one, staying away from the lower numbers reserved for other services. Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Software Tool House

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Danny Kellett
Ben, is the standard port for databases is not quite true. 1521 is Oracle, 1433 is MSSQL. And a word of warning, portmapper shouldn't be used if you are using a firewall between you and the AR Server. Although you could map port 111 you would have to map the TDC port too, which I guess

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread Siddiqi, Wirasat (Contractor)
Correct. If you want to use specific port and not use port mapper, make sure that port is available. You can check port availability using netstat command in Windows system. Thanks, Wirasat From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Chernys
OK. So, it ain't a denied malloc. You got a bug that somehow you are exposing and seemingly no one else is. Tough one. BMC could give you a debug build, you'd generate a core, and give it to some BMC folks. That would require some very high level of support I would assume (though I have seen

Re: Ports

2011-09-23 Thread DEE
To add for firewall , if not port mapped, arserver uses firewall UDP 111 and TCP 53165, for us -Original Message- From: Danny Kellett danny.kell...@strategicworkflow.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 9:53 am Subject: Re: Ports ** Ben, “is the standard

Re: SLM breach notifications not going...

2011-09-23 Thread Rob Cvetkovski
Hello, Does anyone have an answer for this issue? I have the same problem - and almost the same patch level (7.0.03 patch 1). When I save a ticket, all the targets milestones attach in the ticket. However when the target breaches, the escalations still show as 0 and don't show up in the audit

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread patrick zandi
yes: itsm 7.1 P6 is running, I am looking to upgrade Patch levels without any promises.. but I gotta test on a dev system.. .. Which is another issue: of issues... Thanks guys.. I am glad you all caught one thing I did not check.. and I am not out of my mind.. yet! On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at

Re: ARS 7.1 P6 Server -- 4 days restarting (possible memory OS 32bit issue) signal is 11

2011-09-23 Thread Axton
Run SQL, Filter, and API logging with the logs set to create a backup. When the server crashes, it will copy the logs to a .bak file. You can use these logs to see what was happening up to the point of the crash. To Mark's point, check that the system is set up to create a core file using

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Pancia
Wow. This is a great conversation. I didn't mean to side rail this into an ITIL processes conversation. Just was curious on examples of what other people are using as operational categorization. I've spent a lot of time over the years with a lot of clients on the sometimes painful process of

Thanks to everybody in the WWRUG11 staff

2011-09-23 Thread Support
** I would like to thank all those who participated to the organization of the WWRUG11, especially as they are all doing this on a voluntary basis. Thank you for investing so much time and efforts in organizing what was a great event :-) :-) :-) . Hope to see

Passwords in URLs

2011-09-23 Thread Thad Esser
Hi, I'm pretty sure there's no resolution to this, but I wanted to ask the list anyway. A user (using the user tool) recently noticed that his password is displayed in clear text on an error message (see the red box on the attached screenshot). He happened to be building a PDT for SRM at the

Re: Passwords in URLs

2011-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
I thought they fixed that? Could you hide the error in the message catalog as a workaround? Rick On Sep 23, 2011 4:59 PM, Thad Esser thad.es...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure there's no resolution to this, but I wanted to ask the list anyway. A user (using the user tool) recently

Re: Software load balancer with AR Server and Mistier

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Pancia
Axton, Thanks. I was looking for that Tomcat info. Hugo from BMC just did a presentation on this at WWRUG. The big thing he was stressing was to make sure IP Multicasting was setup if you are using 7.6.04. If this is setup you shouldn't have to use the stickbit. We are currently configuring

Re: Passwords in URLs

2011-09-23 Thread David Durling
Without looking, I think patch 007 of the 7.5 BMC Remedy User fixed a password-related issue. It should be in the release notes. David Durling University of Georgia From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Thad Esser Sent: Friday,

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Jan Lindhardsen
God how I love these discussions, there is always so many ways to do this, and only a couple of them is dead wrong... It's always very useful to see how other people have solved this! Richard, Im completely on your track in regard to what is an Incident and what is a Service Request. But...

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
Here is some we are using Incident Troubleshoot / Software Troubleshoot / Database Services / Oracle General Inquiry / Training General Inquiry / Not Supported Evaluate / Hardware / Memory Stick Change IMAC / Software IMAC / Database Services / Oracle Evaluate /

Re: Passwords in URLs

2011-09-23 Thread Thad Esser
David, You were spot on!! From the 7.5, patch 7 release notes, resolved issues: SW00368694 - BMC Remedy User did not conceal or encrypt the username and password information when retrieving flashboards data. SW00372303 - When opening a flashboard, BMC Remedy User sent the username and password

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Gmail
Brian, The examples below do not align with the tool. Basically, they seem to be redundant. Why would you waste one category when you can use the Incident Type field to describe your incident type. (User Service Restoration, User Service Request, Infrastructure Event and so on.)

Re: Passwords in URLs

2011-09-23 Thread Axton
You will still need to encrypt your http traffic to keep people from reading the username and password off the wire. Even though it's a post, the content may still be logged to your web servers logs depending on how the logging is set up. It may also be logged to your midtier logs depending on

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Pancia
I certainly understand. These are some of the same questions/conversations everyone has with their customers. One challenge is that the Incident Type field is a drop down field and requires a considerable amount of customization to the OOB apps in order to change. I believe this is tied to

Re: ARSLIST awards from WWRUG11

2011-09-23 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Congratulations Misi and all other winners -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Doug Blair Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARSLIST awards from WWRUG11 Hi list! Live

Re: Oracle stored procedure call ...

2011-09-23 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
When at all possible I try to utilize a stored function in Oracle. This way I can use a simple select Test_SP2() from Dualstatement Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Cecil, Ken Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 9:03 AM To:

OT - To All WWRUG11 Attendees

2011-09-23 Thread Dave Shellman
We just want to say safe journey to all WWRUG attendees. Again Thank You, Dave Shellman Sent via BlackBerry by ATT ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: Where

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
IMHO... a password reset should just be an incident. A change is something that affects the attributes or status of a configuration item. If you track passwords as a configuration item, then by all means, create a change. Otherwise, it should be an incident. Terry _ From: Action

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread strauss
Rambling thoughts on applying ITSM to the real world, after a long, grueling week spent in multi-hour WebEx's diagnosing and fixing problems in 7.6.04.01. You shouldn't think of Requests as alternatives to Incidents. Think of SRM (or Kinetic Request in our case) as your customer self-service