Re: Friday Special, The First Post to the ARSList

2014-02-18 Thread Lucero, Michelle
I, too started Remedy AR System development in 1995 on version 2.x on an HP-UX/Oracle platform. One had to be quite creative back then as I believe that Query (Search) menus didn't even exist. * Push fields were done by creating and attaching a macro to an active link..(even earlier a

Re: Atrium SSO with ARS

2014-02-18 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, Are you sure about your statement below, did you contact the JSS guys to validate? Any SSO works on the principle as you have described based on the configuration - it uses the Cross Reference Blank Passwords Checkbox to trigger the External Authentication, if a password is present in

Re: Friday Special, The First Post to the ARSList

2014-02-18 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, What was wrong with the old way of performing a push-felds??? Preparation: 1. Record a macro performing a Login (with hard coded name/password) followed by a Modify-All operation with the qualifier of choice 2. Move the macro to your server Execution: 3. A filter run-process passes values

Re: 8.1 Mid Tier Issues Resolved

2014-02-18 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, I have actually seen this issue at a few customers over the past year due to using shared resources across their VM's, so actually it is not redundant (yet). It also depends on the JVM version being used and the VM underlying technology that has been used also e.g. VMware, Microsoft, etc.

Atrium SSO with ARS

2014-02-18 Thread John Baker
Santosh I think there's some confusion. Neither of your scenarios require an SSO solution. 1. Blank password in User form This is one part of the AR System configuration to send an authentication event to an AREA plugin. Whether that's a link to an SSO solution or an LDAP solution. 2.

Debugging escalations

2014-02-18 Thread Jennifer Varkey
Hello All, On a windows 8, ARS/ITSM 7.6.04 sp1, is there a utility like the arlogtimer to debug escalations. Is there some utility to indicate which escalations are taking long time to run. If escalations on pool1 are taking quite some time to execute, are there any pointers to debug the

Rif: Direct access URL used in email notification - AR 7.6

2014-02-18 Thread Luisa Clotilde Carena
Hi Pietro, you have to build an url like this in your email text, http://REMEDYWEBPROD.intranet.servizi:8080/arsys/servlet/ViewFormServlet?server=remedyprod.intranet.serviziform=WRBorsaitalianamode=Modifyqual=%27Entry_ID%27%3D%22$yourtiketid$%22+AND+%27Cod+UO%27%3D%2207165%22 In notify action

AW: Rif: Direct access URL used in email notification - AR 7.6

2014-02-18 Thread Rüdiger Tams
Hi there, you can find some information about the URLs in the PDF Mid-Tier Guide for 7.6, too. HTH Rüdiger Luisa Clotilde Carena luisaclotilde.car...@sgsbp.it schrieb am Di, 18.2.2014: Betreff: Rif: Direct access URL used in email notification -

Connection has timed out in midtier

2014-02-18 Thread Jennifer Varkey
Hello Gurus!!! I am running on ARS/ITSM 7.6.04 Sp2, midtier 7.6.04Sp2 Windows 2008, SQL Server. Once I change a password and relogin, midtier gives a time-Out Error (Connection has timed out) while user logs for the first time, this only happens from PC's outside company's domain. From the

Re: 8.1 Mid Tier Issues Resolved

2014-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You've explained the reasoning behind setting them both to be the same. Also, I feel that we're utilizing way too little memory for Tomcat but I'm going with the amounts BMC suggested. I may tweak the memory settings over time to use more because we have like 8GB of physical memory on that

Re: 8.1 RBE Documentation

2014-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thanks. We've been building some enhancements around troubleshooting these (ultimately we'll be creating an Incident that gets assigned to the Remedy team with hyperlinks to the relevant forms in the case of certain failures.) However, the reprocessing tip for the Messages form will prove

Re: Atrium SSO with ARS

2014-02-18 Thread Hennigan, Sandra
Santosh, Be sure to open a ticket with BMC - The BMC SSO team is very good and willing to work with you to execute the SSO solution. Thank you, Sandra Hennigan Remedy Developer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Santosh kumar s

Charleston, SC Remedy Developer opportunity

2014-02-18 Thread Bo Deas
My name is Bo Deas and I am a technical recruiter for TEKsystems here in Charleston, SC. I wanted to reach out to this site regarding a Remedy Developer position that I am working on. It is an upgrade from 7.1 to 8.1 and heavily involves the use of Atrium CMDB and Remedy ITSM. This will be a

arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread Narayanan, Radhika
Hi List, How can I make the arserverd executable listen on a given, specific IP Address and not on 0.0.0.0? By default, arserverd binds to the interface 0.0.0.0. My RHEL 6.4 server has 5 IP Addresses. I want it to bind only to one of the 5 IP Addresses that I mention in armonitor.conf.

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread patrick zandi
it apparently does not think it has a nic, or have a default address. Need to ensure that the address is up and operational and functioning prior to install. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Narayanan, Radhika radhika.naraya...@cgi.com wrote: ** Hi List, How can I make the arserverd

RESOLVED: Flashboards and Email Service Wont Start

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Shaffer
Thanks Parshuram Copying the msvcr100.dll from jre7 installation to the C:\Program Files\BMC Software\ARSystem\AREmail folder as well as flashboard folder fixed the issue. Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:42:41 -0600 From: parshuram_walunj...@bmc.com Subject: Re: Flashboards and Email Service Wont

Re: Is there a way to hide the Knowledge Article link when searching for a service on the SRM in 8.1

2014-02-18 Thread Stacy Fong
Thanks Ravi Rai. I had figured as much. Making the changes now. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: 8.1 Mid Tier Issues Resolved

2014-02-18 Thread Axton
The cost of allocating memory is negligible compared to the cost of huge full garbage collections resulting from an fixed/over-sized heap. Watch the GC statistics when setting them mix/max to high values equal to one another. I guarantee at 6gb you will see pause times 1 minute. The frequency

Re: 8.1 Mid Tier Issues Resolved

2014-02-18 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, The pauses are based on your GC settings, so you can mitigate this with the correct settings for GC so you do not do a full collection and minimize the pauses which will be less 1 minute - without proper tuning then I agree you will see pauses in excess of 1 minute. The number of

Re: 8.1 Mid Tier Issues Resolved

2014-02-18 Thread Axton
Full gc will always pause the app. The different methods of gc attempt to mitigate this with different strategies, but only take you sobfar. The 75 second pausesbibsaw were with parnewgc and cms with 6gb min and max heap on a 1.6 jdk. On Feb 18, 2014 10:39 AM, Carl Wilson carlbwil...@gmail.com

RKM Idea on BMC Communities

2014-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't know if it's acceptable to post these here or not, but we're struggling to gain full acceptance for RKM for a few reasons, one being that it's difficult to read anything on it. Specifically, if I make an article with embedded screenshots, the user ends up reading it by playing around

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
As far as I know the ARS binaries do not bind to an IP. They will bind to a TCP port if one is specified (and/or use portmapper if that is set). If you are not connecting to the AR Server one item to check is the /etc/hosts file. See if the name you used for your AR Server is listed as a

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread LJ LongWing
I don't know if 'bind' is the proper term, but Remedy DOES get the MAC address of the first ethernet, and if it can't find that ethernet, I have experienced issues in the past with Remedy starting because it can't tell what the host ID should be. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Grooms,

Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Siegel
Hi - All We are moving from BMC SDE to Remedy ITSM and I had a question. In my company's world the word incident has a whole different meaning than the ITIL help desk world. When we declare and incident folks gather into a room and follow the FEMA incident management protocol for resolving the

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Tom, You could use the Work Order module as well. The other way would be to maybe change the wording of your FEMA incident to major incident but that would be a culture change. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Tom Siegel tsie...@intrado.com wrote: Hi - All We are moving

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Roger Justice
This could be an example of how a Problem could be used to fix a FEMA Incident. -Original Message- From: Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 12:46 pm Subject: Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM Tom, ou could

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You may not have much pull on the decision, but I'd make sure whoever the decision maker is understands that calling Incident Management something else would result in some major (and unnecessary) changes in the system, potentially destabilizing it as you modify all references to Incidents,

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Lee Cullom
Shawn is absolutely right. This will create years of misery. Don't forget to use the priorities in context as well. Critical Incident is when everyone gets in a room in IT. Some people refer to it as Major Incident Management. Also, if it's helpful, use Request Management terminology where

Re: RKM Idea on BMC Communities

2014-02-18 Thread Nathan Aker
Honestly, we have faced abysmal adoption of RKM for this and a long list of other UI/Usability issues with the tool that have prevented us from driving adequate adoption. Despite success with other modules/processes we're still in a siloed realm for knowledge management where the various teams

Re: RKM Idea on BMC Communities

2014-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We're on 8.1 and some aspects are definitely better such as the ability to do searches, but it's still not nearly as strong as the other Remedy modules or how RKM was prior to 7.6.4 as a separate application. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Mueller, Doug
Tom, OK, I am going to get myself into some trouble here, but I just cannot resist. And it is lunchtime so I'm supposed to have a few minutes... I assume you are talking about Incidents as in the ICS or Incident Command System model and standard. For all you out there who ask, what is ICS? It

licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread patrick zandi
So we bought ITSM but the install instructions say you need (20 licenses for each module). Does that mean that purchasing ITSM you get free 20 licenses? This must have been covered before... Any where would that information be published. -- Patrick Zandi

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Lee Cullom
Doug - I showed a demonstration of that sweet product to the Georgia Department of Transportation. They didn't buy it at the time, but they did buy Remedy. It was sad to see that product go... You got me on board. I was a believer! Lee Cullom | Northcraft Analytics IT Metrics Specialist

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread LJ LongWing
Patrick, The only 'free' licenses that I'm aware of are the 3 Fixed User licenses you get with the Remedy Server, I believe everything else needs to be purchased. On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:56 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: ** So we bought ITSM but the install instructions say

Re: Implementing FEMA incident procedure in Remedy ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Ben Cantatore
I bet it still has merit and was merely ahead of its time. Having just recently worked at a hospital, I can see that being a huge benefit in that sort of environment. They plan for those situations. I can definitely understand your emotional attachment to such a product if it was well

Re: RKM Idea on BMC Communities

2014-02-18 Thread Janie Sprenger
We're implementing a custom article template that uses a DVF to render attachments on the Article content screen in 8.1. Mainly this works with PDFs because other documents don't render in browser windows anymore - although, you will be prompted to download the attachment. I'm not sure how well

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Jason Miller
That is the way I understand it too. I think you need that many license if you are installing the sample data. I don't believe it is an issue to set the server with 20 license across the board, instal and then reduce the count to what you are actually entitled to (may want to double check with

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Janie Sprenger
After you set the AR Server license (whether temp or permanent), you can set the Application licenses and then the AR and Application user licenses. You don't need keys for the Application licenses or the Application User Licenses. I do believe that if BMC were going to audit you, they would

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread Axton
Network daemons bind to address/protocol/port. 0.0.0.0 means all addresses. I looked through all the ar.conf parameters and flags supported by arserverd and it does not look like there is a way to tell arserverd to listed on a specific IP. You could use iptables to restrict access on those

Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread Axton
Bind is a common term in Linux/Unix circles for this. It is the name of the function in the network stack that does just this (as defined in POSIX.1-2001). http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bind.2.html Axton Grams On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:34 AM, LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, You are not even allowed to use the 3 Fixed licenses. These show in the system for historic reasons, and everyone that is not on the old legacy licensing mode will not be allowed to make use of them, i.e. not assign them to anyone. This is probably something we should add to our license FAQ:

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I can understand not being able to use them with the ITSM application suite (as that requires Application licenses), but not even for some separate custom work? i.e. You have the ITSM app suite and you create a custom form that an outside app pushes data into (or updates). Would that not be

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Janie Sprenger
Misi, Where is this information coming from? I have a new install of ARS 8.1 with ITSM, but I show +3 licenses in AR System Server and in my user form when I change a user to a Fixed license, I'm provided the number of total ARS Fixed licenses, which is +3 of the number I have designated in the

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Carl Wilson
Hi, If you install ITSM, then the 'Fixed' licenses are pre-allocated to Demo, appadmin and EscalationUser (as of the 8.x versions). Without licensing the Server on either a temporary license or full Server license then you are restricted to these licenses to use the system as a Demonstration

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Hulmes, Timothy CTR MDA/ICTO
You don't get those licenses free, they are an additional cost. You only need those licenses if you are installing Sample Data. If you are not installing sample data you will not get that message. Tim -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

8.1 AI and Spoon modification...

2014-02-18 Thread Rick Phillips
Hi, I've got a step question about an existing transformation. I have a source db where field A (integer type) has two values, 0 or 1. I want to map that such that 0 maps to a selection field in ComputerSystem (CMDB not AST). Can anyone tell me what type of step I need (and any examples

Reporting error

2014-02-18 Thread shashidhar M S
Hello Experts, Have anyone come across the below error? Your inputs are much appreciated. Error occurred in generating reports - ARERR[552] Failure during the SQL operation to the database ORA-12899: Value too large for column ARADMIN.T2258.C71000(Actual:51, Maximum:50) Thanks in

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread Brock, Anne
While of course you should always check with your sales rep, my understanding is that once you move to the Suite pricing, the 3 free licenses are no longer legally included. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: licenses question (minimum install) ITSM

2014-02-18 Thread David Charters
But can you still use the 3 for basic development and basic proof of concept?  Sincerly, David Charters Charters Technologies 317-331-8985 Original message From: Brock, Anne anne_br...@bmc.com Date:02/18/2014 10:45 PM (GMT-05:00) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: 8.1 AI and Spoon modification...

2014-02-18 Thread Francois Seegers
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Re: arserverd binding to 0.0.0.0

2014-02-18 Thread Narayanan, Radhika
Thank you so much, Axton, Fred and others. Our client gave us one physical server with 3 virtual IP Addresses. And asked us to install AR Server on each of the virtual IP Addresses, all on same port. I guess I’m not able to use iptables restriction because I want to use the other IPs too , but