Re: Incident and Change Consoles do not extend on mid-tier 7.6.04

2012-02-10 Thread Jiri Pospisil
Yes, it is ITSM 7.6.03 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: 09 February 2012 17:50 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Incident and Change Consoles do not extend on mid-tier 7.6.04 Are you

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread David Sanders
Hi Brien What you are describing is definitely *not* a normalized data structure as you are storing and maintaining the linked data in your main form... but leaving that aside. The suggestion from Fred would work for small data volumes, but as soon as you are updating larger volumes you will

How do you support mobile access?

2012-02-10 Thread Hendershot,Bruce D.
The scope of this question is for both Remedy and non Remedy applications. As your applications are enabled for access from smart phones and tablets, are you using your existing support model to support the mobile aspect? For example, are the existing support and/or development teams for the

Re: ITSM Incident Notification 7.6.04 - RESOLVED-Almost

2012-02-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The form you are looking for is AR System Email Templates. I just created one record for the header and a second for the footer, with html attachments on each record. Once those records exist, you can go into AR System Email Mailbox Configuration and open up your outgoing email mailbox, then

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread LJ LongWing
I just converted my Service call from one that was using WebService plugin to call its own MidTier to one that just did an internal call because in this particular test, I’m wanting to test the App server, not the MidTier server…I can devise a plugin that will test the plugin server is

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread LJ LongWing
Well.in my situation, I have a Server Group.so the effort that I'm working on is to make my Load Balancer 'smarter' so that I can take a node out of rotation if it's not working, so this particular approach wouldn't quite work for me, but I agree that in a 'manual' manner, it seems to be a

David Zifchock is out of the office

2012-02-10 Thread David Zifchock
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Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Ben Chernys
What Fred is saying is avoid the escalation by including your normalization at time of save or in his second case at time of save of another form (with a non AR_ESCALATOR user). (Sorry Fred. Just wanted to make that a bit clearer). The ONLY way to modify a record without changing the fields

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
If you don't have access to enterprise level monitoring tools (such as patrol, MOM, splunk, etc...) and if this is windows OS you could use the arapi.net and vbscript on the arserver to send an email notification of error on login or vice versa of healthy login. If you execute remotely, then this

AR Server or DB issue

2012-02-10 Thread Peters, Ron
Hello all, Having some AR server issues. Something has been happening in the mornings about 6am in that our service desk can't access Remedy. This started in Decemeber but only once. Then twice in January and now a couple times this week. The first few times it resolved itself after about 30

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread LJ LongWing
Andrew, What you provided below would be an example of 'Login' as I described below, and yes, I agree that that's the 1st step in checking to see if your server is online and alive, but I'm looking for additional exercise recommendations. I suggested Login, Search, Service. Another poster

Re: AR Server or DB issue

2012-02-10 Thread Axton
The server is timing out. Make sure your api, sql, filter, and escalation logs are enabled, and when the timeouts start, grab a copy of the logs then restart ARS. Look in the logs for the last thing that was taking place and you will have your answer. It could be any number of things causing

Re: AR Server or DB issue

2012-02-10 Thread LJ LongWing
Ron, A restart of the ARServer closes out all current connections to the DB, and the startup re-establishes them. So, if one of your connections was causing blocking of some sort at the DB level and other threads couldn't continue, then you restarted.you would have cleared up the blocking with

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Campbell, Paul (Paul)
You may want to make sure your script is not using a user in the Administrator group, so that if for some reason you want to put a server in Admin Only mode, your script would return a failure and have the loadbalancer remove the server from the load balanced group if you set admin only mode to

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
In that case, the extras you might want to look at that I can think of would be: - Email outgoing queuing (look at outgoing not sent depth) - Plugin (could look at success on updating people record) - Reconciliation Dispatch (look a jobs still running or no recon

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread LJ LongWing
Ah..good point, I hadn't considered that J From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Campbell, Paul (Paul) Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:59 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server 'Alive' check ** You may want to make sure

Re: ITSM Incident Notification 7.6.04 - RESOLVED-Almost-Lotus Notes display

2012-02-10 Thread Ray Palla
Ok, so I'm clear about all that... Here's an issue I see at one of our customer sites, which uses Lotus Notes as an email client. In most clients our header graphic (company Logo) displays in the body of the email notification, then the content, then the footer, right. In Lotus Notes the header

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Nathan Aker
Also, just to throw it out there I know Column Technologies has a Remedy specific monitoring solution. Not sure what exactly it monitors or how though, or what it costs for that matter. But I know it is purpose built for ARS. Nate. Nathan Aker ITSM Solution Architect McAfee, Inc. From:

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
Additional things to check: NTE:SYS NT Process Control - is the queue building up and not clearing out? Application Pending -- is the queue building up and not clearing out? CAI:Events - is the queue building up and not clearing out? Thanks, Sean From: Action Request System discussion

Re: ITSM Incident Notification 7.6.04 - RESOLVED-Almost-Lotus Notes display

2012-02-10 Thread John Sundberg
You may want to look into: http://litmus.com/email-previews We did this a couple years ago with the Kinetic applications… litmus.com is a service - that will take your email -- and render it in tons of email clients -- and then send you the image of the rendering… Lots of little things to learn

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
It blows me away how much manual effort we the customer have to go through to check that the product we purchased is working as intended / designed!!! Firstly, the onus should be on BMC to provide this capability for its own product, secondly if the product was stable and robust perhaps we

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Re: Incident and Change Consoles do not extend on mid-tier 7.6.04

2012-02-10 Thread strauss
I think that you will find that the 7.6.03 mid-tier and ITSM consoles are designed for each other, and that the 7.6.04 mid-tier and ITSM console are designed for each other, and that they do not mix and match very well. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Brien Dieterle
Thank you all for the feedback. I should have also mentioned that modifying the records for no reason is really at the core of the issue, so the modified by field is a side-issue. Also, normalization versus denormalization-- it is confusing but as far as I understand it you would normally

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Ben Chernys
Actually, I meant you do the set on problem but also set a display only, change flag inhibited command field. The last filter on modify on problem has a qualification of Command field = my command and (db.firstname = firstname and db.lastname = lastname and and and) That filter then does an

FW: Can anyone explain a field id of 0 in TMS:Task on ARGetMultipleEntries?

2012-02-10 Thread Ben Chernys
Further addendum: I did check for Get filters on TMS:Task are there are a bunch. One sets this field when the enum is non-null and never sets it when null. BUT this is normally not a problem as I always get all field values and get nulls for display only fields. Filter name in Q is

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Another way I have seen people keep things like this in sync is to use a Join form The New Form Problem Ticket/User Join would Outer Join Problem Ticket and User on ProblemTicket.UserID = User.USerID. It would also have First and Last Name from Problem Ticket and from User. Your Escalation

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Ben Chernys
I like that. Nice and clean. Cheers Ben -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: February-10-12 19:59 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying

Urgent help needed

2012-02-10 Thread Oyefeso, Bola
I will be implementing tomorrow and I am getting the following error. Any idea how to solve this quickly? Error generating application list field content. (ARERR 1900) ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist

Re: Escalation trigger filters without modifying records?

2012-02-10 Thread Brien Dieterle
Hmm, yeah this is pretty clean, and allows you to do the diagnosis via the (passive) join instead of via the filter madness. Seems like there are several tradeoffs with any approach, be it performance or simply added complexity. I was really hoping to keep *all* the complexity within an

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread Tommy Morris
So on the last evening of the event are you actually going to call it the KEG party? If so make sure that it is not near a college or military facility. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012

Re: Urgent help needed

2012-02-10 Thread patchsk
We saw this error in ITSM 7.6.03 and is because of some Active Link guides got corrupted. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread John Sundberg
:) -- We like to have a little fun at Kinetic. Yes - we are going to call it a KEG party. Presentations will be called KEG stands. An interesting side note -- it starts on Feb 29. So - we like to say -- Leap into the future with Kinetic Request… It should be a great event… We will have two

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread bullcreek.com
I want to know how you plan to float your KEG! Phil Bautista President / CEO Bull Creek Data Corporation www.bullcreek.com Remedy Approved Consultant (RAC) 512-731-0304 -Original message- From: John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:57 -0500 To:

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread Tommy Morris
He never gave a location. Maybe they rented a boat. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of bullcreek.com Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:28 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread John Sundberg
Feb 29-Mar 2 Denver, CO More info: http://www.kineticdata.com/Events/KEG.html No boats - but their are ski slopes close by. -John On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Tommy Morris tommy.mor...@radioshack.comwrote: He never gave a location. Maybe they rented a boat. -Original

Re: Urgent help needed

2012-02-10 Thread arslist
Ok. Now can you give us more details, such as the database you are using and what the error was? Daniel From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: February 10, 2012 4:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Urgent help

Re: ADV:Kinetic Enthusiasts Group (KEG)

2012-02-10 Thread arslist
So now we have the image: Kegs of beer running down ski slopes while programmers try to schedule their runs and routes to avoid them, cool! Don't think I can get there but sounds like a great event. Daniel From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)