Single Sign-On (SSO)

2012-05-31 Thread Team Remedy
Hi all, i would like to log to Requester Console bypassing the login page of Mid Tier. the User could access to the system using his Web portal and i try to interface the RQC by Single Sign-On (SSO) of BMC Remedy. Is it possible ? i don't understand if Single Sign-On (SSO) needs of regular

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-31 Thread Sabyson Fernandes
Sounds more of an asynchronous interface and it appearsyou have to do some degree of response/error handling with this to account for any strange return values if the remote application is down etc. I would suggest taking the return value and updating the form in Remedy and have filters at a

Re: Single Sign-On (SSO)

2012-05-31 Thread Nathan Aker
Yes, this can be done. Column Technologies helped us set this up, they have a packaged custom plugin they've written to perform the pass-through SSO solution which basically gets applied to your Miditer server and intercepts traffic to the web server and authenticates to your Identity Mgt

Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
I have what I hope is a simple issue. I am designing an asset tracking system. We will be utilizing ITSM 7.6.04. I have chosen barcode printers. We will be using the Zebra P4T Mobile solution to print our barcodes. The problem I am having (never having done this before) is figuring out the

7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Ruble
Listers, We are trying to get 7.6.04 running and are having problems with Full Text Search(FTS). We have our arsystem servers(Windows 2008 R2) in a server group and are experiencing write lock errors: FTSPlugin::initializeSearchService - Error initializing the

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Dennis, One question...I don't use FTS myself, so I'm sorry if this is covered in the documentation. Is your FTS Collection 'shared' between the servers in the server group? If so, do you have the server ranking setup properly so that only one server at a time is trying to create/update the

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread John Sundberg
Warren, I don't know anything about the printing. But - I would not do a 3 letter prefix 4 letter suffix. I would go pure random or possibly using a GUID ??? Otherwise - you will have a constant flow of unforeseen problems. ***Except - they are foreseeable :) Say two owning groups merge --

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Tommy Morris
I believe that you just need to download the barcode font and have it on the machine that will be printing the report. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
When I have done Barcode Printing in the past all I have had to do is use a Barcode Font for that field in my report. Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Warren R. Baltimore II Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:48 AM To:

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Nathan Aker
Dennis, we're running 7.6.04 in a server group against a shared FTS collection directory. While we have had to do a lot of tuning related to plugin server performance, we're not seeing the error you have below. A few things to validate: 1. Do you have the collection directories setup

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
We're you generating the barcode via a Crystal Report? On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com wrote: ** When I have done Barcode Printing in the past all I have had to do is use a Barcode Font for that field in my report. ** ** Fred **

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Roberts, Chas
Warren, you can simply use a freeware 3of9 TTF, that has worked for me... Chas From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Warren R. Baltimore II Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:48 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Barcode Printing ** I have

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Yes. I typically use a free Code 3 of 9 font.You can print any field (almost) in a barcode font (A quick Google search of free code 3 of 9 barcode font will find it) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Warren R. Baltimore II

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Among the 19 different available functions on the SPML (WSDL), are: SPMLResumeRequest – resumes a suspended user SPMLSuspendRequest – suspends an active user SPMLActiveRequest – queries the ‘active’ attribute of the user in the OIM database, returns true for active, false for suspended. I have

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Sanford, Claire
We have a prefix DL for Laptop (Dell Laptop) and then the asset ID which is the next available number in field ID 1 DD for Desktop (Dell Desktop) M for Monitor LP for Printer (Lexmark Printer) It makes sense. From there it is the actual asset number. We have no duplicates! DL004626

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I have toyed around with the idea of using a QR Code instead of a bar code, so it can contain a little more information about the item right upfront and not just a serial number that is used to lookup that information.. I haven’t done much research into that possibility if there is already

Re: Barcode Printing

2012-05-31 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
True … The actual choice of what Code/Font to use is entirely dependent on the choice of the device used to read it. I found another set of fonts in the Windows Office marketplace http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/free-barcode-fonts-EM010286377.aspx Back in the dark days of

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Ruble
LJ, We've tried it both ways. BMC initially installed it with each server writing to the collection directory. The problem appeared intermittent at that time with the primary server usually being able to write and the secondary server locked out once the problem occurred. Based upon

Re: Product Categorization for Remedy 7.6.04

2012-05-31 Thread Ahmed Sauga
I published the tab with the product categorization but the tab does not show up still. I went ahead and created a new tab and move dthe categorization fields over the new tab but still not able to see the fields. Nathan mentioned a workflow that hides fields when in new mode of HPD:HelpDesk.

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Miller
Regarding adding a delay between Filter operations you could use a ping in a Set Field Run Process in a DO field to delay things. Windows: PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1 NUL That will wait for 10 seconds and then continue on. Adjust -w as needed. Jason On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Joe Martin

Single Sign-On (SSO)

2012-05-31 Thread John Baker
Nathan The Column SSO solution is little more than the BMC community code repackaged, but last time I checked, rather less secure. I actually sent Column a video demonstrating how to login to AR System as any user and never received a response demonstrating the problem has been fixed.

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Ruble
Nate, We started in your configuration, but are currently configured per the document you attached and continue tweaking it per direction from BMC support. Our hope was it would improve performance AND clear the lock issue, but the lock problem seems more solid in this configuration. Now

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Good idea but it wont be useful on the mid-tier.. A JS would be more useful.. Joe From: Jason Miller Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:07 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions... ** Regarding adding a

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
I would suspect that if you ever found the time you would find that the sec= ondary worked just fine if the primary wasn't online. One suggestion I wou= ld make would be to turn on server group logging on all nodes and then star= t things up properly. The logs are VERY low volume so no problems

Re: OT: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Pat Zandi
Wikipedia is managed by people who want you to think like them and money talks as well as when it fits my way of thinking Sent from my iPhone On May 31, 2012, at 12:50, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: ** I was playing with Google BBS terminal and landed on the ARS Wikipedia

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Ruble
LJ, Thanks for the suggestion. I have turned it on. Thanks, Dennis Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC lj.longwing@mda.mil Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 05/31/2012 12:46 PM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re:

Re: OT: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Axton
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question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Nancy Tietz
Hello all! I am trying to design a solution where a filter pulls in rows from an Oracle view on another server, and the next filter loads them to a staging table/form, then some filters convert some of the data values, then a filter loads them to the regular ITSM form. The number of rows at one

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Brittain, Mark
Not quite sure exactly it is you are doing but let me see if I can give you a few ideas to work with. 1. In Remedy create a View Form pointing to the Oracle table/view. 2. Set the staging table to point to the View Form 3. Create the filters you need to do the work, leaving Execute On blank and

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
While the table view and creating a view form is a doable idea, it may not be scalable without major modification of underlying code.. Using the Atrium Integration Engine (AIE) which is bundled with CMDB to perform the same thing would require less code, and the rules can easily be modified -

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Nancy Tietz
Hi Mark - My concern in using a 'View Form' is that it is supposed to be very slow for 18,000 rows to process. Do you feel this is still a concern? Thanks for the response! Nancy -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Nancy Tietz
Hi Joe - I originally tried AIE and ran into some roadblocks that required our Windows people to do more work than they had time for this project. It looked good though, so once we get through the hurdles eventually, we plan to get back to it. We are on 7.6.03, SQL Server. Thanks! Nancy

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
It would be as slow or fast as how efficient your query is to generate that view. If it is the entire table you are creating that view, and if it is a very large table, make sure that the columns that you use in the ARS for for any possible queries are indexed on that underlying table. 18,000

Re: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Easter, David
One of the things I’d thought of that could be done would be to enter some of the information presented at the last WWRUG keynote in terms of history. I notice that the Remedy Corp page is not at risk and it’s mainly just history – so perhaps updating the AR System page with additional

Re: question on Pulling in external data via a SQL

2012-05-31 Thread Jason Miller
We have a number of integrations with other databases; Oracle, SQL and PostgreSQL. Like Joe said, AIE works well for large jobs. Our HR Import process processes 40k records nightly in about 20-30 minutes (there is a lot of Filter processing). In other cases where we couldn't/didn't use AIE for

Re: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Nancy Tietz
At the bottom of the Wiki you can rate the page… giving a rating is proving that somebody is looking at it at least. *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Easter, David *Sent:* Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:34 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: AIE problems

2012-05-31 Thread Virgilio Felonia
One option is to install the AIE in a separate server not part of the server group. Then your AIE gateway will always be directed to this AIE server during your AIE gateways configuration setup. In this setting you will always point to the actual host server and prevent this error. Makes

Re: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Michael Latham
Honestly, I have never used the wiki page myself. With that said, it doesn't mean that others haven't. I had nothing constructive to say, so I'm done. I'll leave now. Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:36:52 -0400 From: nti...@umich.edu Subject: Re: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is

Re: 7.6.04 Full Text Search problems

2012-05-31 Thread ravi rai
We ran into some problem with FTS on server group with SQL 2008 on Windows and BMC help to tune it Fix was: Thread setting RPC socket configuration, Private Queues Removing the shared directory concept Running two instance of FTS on Primary FTS server one with 1GB and second with 2GB max

Re: BMC Remedy Action Request System Wikipedia page is set to be deleted

2012-05-31 Thread Matt Laurenceau
Thanks Joe and all, great to have a thriving community :) Calling it a day in my side, Matt On 31 mai 2012, at 22:36, Nancy Tietz nti...@umich.edu wrote: ** At the bottom of the Wiki you can rate the page… giving a rating is proving that somebody is looking at it at least. From:

Re: Default password for ARADmin

2012-05-31 Thread Samuel J Albury III
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