Weblogic - debug messages - large log files

2011-11-11 Thread John Baker
LJ It looks like Anik may need to find the CMDB log4j.xml file and switch the debug logging to info. John ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the

Installing 7.6.0.4 midtier on linux/apache/tomcat

2011-11-11 Thread John Baker
James I have no idea why you are installing an Apache front end. it's pointless for almost all deployments of Mid Tier and the mod_jk connector is no longer reliable. Installing Mid Tier is easy. 1. Unpack Tomcat. 2. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to tomcat/webapps/arsys/WEB-INF/lib. 3. Place Mid Tier

Re: Overlay objects named __o : common knowledge?

2011-11-11 Thread Support
** Hello John, The next version of ARSmarts will support Overlay, and also bring additional navigation/search/comparison features in relation with the Overlay. We are considering different ways to present things, and using __o is one of the options. The question is

Re: Overlay objects named __o : common knowledge?

2011-11-11 Thread Support
** So everybody who digs a little in the Overlay functionality will know about the __o naming convention pretty soon. Thanks Chris. On 11/11/2011 00:36, strauss wrote: The __o syntax was described in the most detail in the Migrator docs, where it tells you

Crystal Reports for ITSP

2011-11-11 Thread Coleman, Gavin
Hi List - I'm trying to find the Report definition for the following report on our ITSP server. This report does not exist on our Report form and I'm hoping that somebody out there could send me the .rpt file. The Report Set Name is ASS-ALL-REP-ASSIGNEE Please feel free to send to me off list.

Re: Deleting Records in the UAT

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Thanks everyone! I think I'm going to go with allowing the customer to set to Delete and then having the escalation do it the actual delete at a later date. Thanks! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
We used to be able to update a form (on dev) and then flush the MidTier Cache and then view the form in the Midtier and see the changes. Lately, it's not working. We flush the cache, no changes. I restarted Apache, still don't see my changes. Delete all browsing history on my IE 8, still no

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I don't have prefetch disabled because you can't disabled it (I don't think), but wanted to say that we don't have any forms that we prefetch. Thanks! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes,

Re: Weblogic - debug messages - large log files

2011-11-11 Thread LJ LongWing
Awesomedidn't know actual files :)any suggestions on where they would find that file? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:21 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Lisa, Sometimes the cache gets stuck. If you flush the cache, do you see files in the cache directory? If so, you should delete those before starting Apache. The normal directory location is here: \\%Server%\Program Files\BMC Software\ARSystem\midtier\cache From: Action Request System

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Tommy Morris
I had the same issue so I disabled Enable Cache Persistence and it solved that problem. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:09 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: MidTier Cache ** I

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Thanks Tauf! That was my next step. Hoping I don't have to do this everytime we want to see a new change! I'll do this and see if it helps. Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Good luck! There's also a cachetemp directory in that same midtier folder that can be cleared as well. If you want to get REALLY crazy, go into the Midtier\web-inf\classes directory and rename the viewstats.dat file! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ITBM - ITSM Relationship Diagram

2011-11-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
This is great Nate! Thanks! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Nathan Aker Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 10:54 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITBM - ITSM Relationship Diagram ** Greetings listers, I'm not aware of a

RKM 7.6.04 SP2 Question:: ARS UT/MIDTIER 7.1

2011-11-11 Thread patrick zandi
I am pretty sure the two do not mix, but sometimes they work when it is not listed:: Question:: if you have a 7.6.04.002 server with RKM can you use are ARS 7.1 box and config to use that? Will it work only in midtier, and not in UT? Do you need the 7.5 UT and above against it? I suspect everyone

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread LJ LongWing
Lisa, I'm running 7.6.4 MidTier Remedy server and have no issues with the flush cache. You didn't mention the OS of your setup.but I'm not sure if it's relevant.I'm on Win2k3 for reference. Cache Persistence would make it so that a restart of Tomcat (You said Apache.don't know if you

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
LJ, yes, I meant Tomcat. Sorry for the confusion. :) Our OS is Win2003. I stopped Tomcat, deleted all the Cache files under the cache folder, renamed the viewstats.dat file and restarted Tomcat (like Tauf suggested). I'm finally able to see my changes. Made another test change on a form

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I meant Made another test change on a form (added a field), flushed the cache, still CAN'T see the changes Ugh! I can't find the cachetemp directory only cache. Thanks! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
It should rebuild the viewstats file automagically. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:17 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: MidTier Cache ** LJ, yes, I meant Tomcat. Sorry

Re: Installing 7.6.0.4 midtier on linux/apache/tomcat

2011-11-11 Thread Axton
I find Apache useful for the following things: - Content-Expiration, Cache-Control, and max-age (mod_expires and mod_headers) - Compression (mod_deflate) A decent article that goes into more detail: http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ Those two things can have a drastic impact on the performance of

Incoming Emails have no text content - Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 1

2011-11-11 Thread Logan, Kelly
FYI - The latest patch to Exchange 2007, SP3 Update Rollup 1, changes their best body format: When you apply Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 1, the behavior of the Best body format option changes. In this scenario, POP3 or IMAP4 clients that use the Best body format option only retrieve the

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew Fremont
I have seen the same problem with our mid-tier, flushing the cache, restarting Tomcat, but not able to see the changes... After clearing the FF browser cache along with flushing the mid-tier cache, I'm able to see the new changes... Not sure it's related to your issue, but it's the same

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
That's exactly what I had to do.. After much research, reading, asking and fiddling around, I think I found out that all we need to do is refresh IE on the page and that gives us the new stuff. For some reason this didn't work when I deleted the history of my IE files, closed it and then

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread LJ LongWing
If I'm not mistaken 'Sync' got introduced in 7.5.but I would think that it's a 7.5 Mid-Tier feature, not reliant on the server component.but that's just my expectation. I think that you MAY be experiencing an incompatibility between the MidTier version and the ARS version. Do you have any plans

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Yes, we are planning on going from 7.1 p7 to 7.6.04 p2. We are starting with DEV first and we are moving to a brand new server so we will be installing it and moving the forms/data and not actually doing an upgrade. Thanks! Lisa From: Action Request System

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread LJ LongWing
Hmmm..what setting do you have the 'check for newer versions of stored pages' setting set to? Maybe setting it to 'Every time I visit the web page' would help then? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Friday,

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread Mueller, Doug
Everyone, What Chris describes here is a new discovery that is unique to IE9 where something has changed in the IE implementation. As part of the model that BMC uses for the AR System, we support the specified versions of products or later. In this case, IE9 was not available when the

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Doug - BMC might want to consider getting on the Microsoft Development BETA team - to test their products before GA :-) A software company that uses another software company's interfaces should not be waiting to GA - that is not an excuse, they should have proactive QA/QC processes up front in

Adding Product Cats To Requester Summary Definition

2011-11-11 Thread Frank Caruso
ITSM 7.0.03 p8 ARS 7.1p5 Looking to use the requester console for internal IT issues. The requester Summary Definiton form only provides Op. Cats as a way of routing a service request. We would like to add Product Cats to the Summary Definition form so that auto assignment can be used to route

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread pritch
And of course you're making the assumption we have control over the items in your workaround. Quite often we don't. - Original Message - From: Doug Mueller doug_muel...@bmc.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:53:35 PM Subject: Re: BMC's Future on the horizon..

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Doug always have :) -- J 2011/11/11 pritch pri...@ptd.net: And of course you're making the assumption we have control over the items in your workaround.  Quite often we don't. - Original Message - From: Doug Mueller doug_muel...@bmc.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday,

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread strauss
Thanks Doug, for the detailed explanation of what has been a nagging problem here for months. The IE9 performance problem made a widespread appearance because we are in the process of rolling out Windows 7 with IE9 all over campus, and while we initially recommended firefox instead for ITSM

SQL feed into Remedy 7.6 sending special characters

2011-11-11 Thread John . Atherly
I have a data base that holds employee information that is using SQL to push the data into Remedy to either create new users or update the users current record in the CTM:People form. Since we are a global company some of the names are coming in with special characters in them. Such a the

Question about Remedy on Demand (RoD)..

2011-11-11 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Listers, I want an end user (both user as well as admin/developer user) perspective.. I’d like to hear from those who have used the Remedy systems on site and then decided to take advantage of the possible advantages that come maybe with some disadvantages smiles of hosting it off premise by

Re: Question about Remedy on Demand (RoD)..

2011-11-11 Thread strauss
I would be VERY interested in hearing more on this topic. Issues like integrations to populate People and User from external sources (we use AIE and custom forms/filters), and AREA authentication to LDAP are at the top of my list. The ability to integrate and use third party products like

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Probably, it's set to Automatically. It sued to be set to every time I visit the web page, so I wonder if a sneaky patch crept up and reset it to automatically I'll change it Thanks so much for all of your help! Lisa From: Action Request System

Re: SQL feed into Remedy 7.6 sending special characters

2011-11-11 Thread Ben Chernys
Why would you want to? Do you not want the names correct? I am quite sure they would not be in fields that cannot support them such as email addresses of user ids. Also, and perhaps only with umlauts in German, removal of the umlaut implies an addition of an ‘e’. So for example, Juergen and

Re: SQL feed into Remedy 7.6 sending special characters

2011-11-11 Thread John . Atherly
When a user calls into the Helpdesk and tells then their name is Noël Smith the support person in another part of the world types in Noel Smith and does a search. Since Noel Smith does not equal Noël Smith they get the message no record found. I think I'm going to push back that support

Re: SQL feed into Remedy 7.6 sending special characters

2011-11-11 Thread Ben Chernys
In that case, I would offer a special search field and a hidden field to contain the name without the special characters. This would be an addition to the CTM:People form. Again, I would use an SQL function to do the xlate as the Remedy functions would be slow. You can only do it through a

Re: SQL feed into Remedy 7.6 sending special characters

2011-11-11 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Oracle 10g (and higher) has the CONVERT function which will convert between character sets You can use a Simple Set-Fields action (from SQL) SELECT CONVERT('$field$','{to character set}','{from character set}') FROM DUAL Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: MidTier Cache

2011-11-11 Thread benny shell
I have been battling the same issues, change the cache time settings to all zeros. Definition Change Check Interval (Seconds) = 0 Update Flashboard Definition Interval (Seconds) = 0 Resource Check Interval (Seconds) = 0 and Disable Cache Persistence. This places the Mid-Tier server in