Re: Modify login id

2010-11-10 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
7.5 provides a tool for this. Application Administration Custom Configuration Foundation Data Management Tool Data Wizard Console. You can read about it in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management 7.5.00 Data Management Administrator's Guide. I seem to recall escalations should be

Out of Office Messages

2010-10-27 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Good Morning! We've configured our system to allow incoming e-mails to update incidents. We'd like the process to ignore Out-of-Office messages based on information contained in the e-mail header. However, when I look at incoming messages in the AR System Email Messages form, I don't see

Re: CMDB Class Update Failed Error [ERROR 120028]

2010-10-09 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Try specifying a field ID. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of sivarama velicheti Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 6:04 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: CMDB Class Update Failed Error [ERROR 120028] ** Hi Group, I am trying

Re: Survey Monkey

2010-10-05 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Is anyone out there using the Remedy survey in a 7.5 environment? If so, how's that working for you? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Asset tracking

2010-09-30 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We have and use AM but this is what we did for a small pool of loaner laptops issued by the Service Desk: Created a form with a character field to contain the loaner name and imported the loaners into it. Created a menu against this form. Added a character field to Incident attached the

Service Catalog CMDB Admin Access

2010-09-17 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Good morning, Does anyone know of a way to give someone access to the Service Catalog without giving them full CMDB administrator access? Atrium CMDB 7.5.00 patch 3 Thanks and TGIF! Rebecca Rebecca Boyd Application Administrator Information Systems 336.758.5671

Re: Relation between CI and people

2010-09-17 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Andreas, I experienced a similar issue after patch 2. Check if the people records were modified for the affected relationships. If so, the relationships were probably deleted during the recon job. We disabled the CTM:PPL:OnDelete_DeleteASTAssetPeople filter to stop this from happening.

Creating an escalation against DLD:SYS:DataWizAction

2010-09-15 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Good Morning! I have a number of login IDs I need to modify, more than I care to do one-by-one with the Data Wizard Console. I found DLD:SYS:DataWizAction, imported some records into it and was able to use the Re-run button to modify the login IDs I imported. Now I'd like to eliminate

Re: Working with JAWS screen reader and ARS

2010-08-31 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Chad, I too have a no vision user. He uses the client and either JAWS or Window Eyes. I created a view of the Incident form just for him did things like set the tab order to his preference. Email me off list we can share. Rebecca -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Publishing the Change Calendar to Google Calendar

2010-08-25 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Hello, Has anyone used ical to publish the Change calendar to a Google calendar? We've had some success getting a Google calendar to read from an ical file, but what's the best way to get Remedy to write to such a file and keep it updated and synchronized with the Google calendar? Any

Re: Publishing the Change Calendar to Google Calendar

2010-08-25 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
on the subject, WWRUG10! See you there! Doug On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Boyd, Rebecca E. wrote: ** Hello, Has anyone used ical to publish the Change calendar to a Google calendar? We've had some success getting a Google calendar to read from an ical file, but what's the best way

Re: Windows 7 and WUT

2010-08-09 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Carin, I have users on Windows 7 with WUT version 7.5.00 Patch 003A. I have not had reports regarding this particular issue - lately. If I remember correctly, what I have seen before is logged-in users putting their computers into hibernation. When the computer comes out of hibernation it may

Re: CMDB learning path?

2010-08-09 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Ray, I'm with you : CMDB is a multi-headed, fire breathing beast. I am currently taking the Web Based Training class: Welcome to BMC Atrium CMDB 7.5: Administering - Part 1. It is 8 hours long. I have to say it is helping me learn the basics. If you take it: 1) Don't even think of completing

Re: Email (Template) Issue

2010-08-05 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Mark, There is a Reply with Result option on the Advanced tab of the Email Mailbox Configuration. If you set it to no, the pesky message won't be generated. However, this may not work if you are using templates and want a reply generated. Rebecca From: Action Request System

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-28 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
dates other than the incident reported date. Because it is a join form, it doesn't have an associated create date like another arslist'r suggested earlier. I can't believe this isn't OOB... Terry On Jul 27, 2010, Boyd, Rebecca E. boy...@wfu.edu wrote: Terry

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We do a P to V (Physical to VM) every once in a while. It’s not the kind of thing you want to do every week, but it does create an exactly replica of the production environment. Once the VM is up running, we have a checklist of things to edit like ar.cfg, armonitor.cfg,

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Terry, Take a look at the “Search Work Info” form. It’s a join between Incident the work log. Some of our people use this for reporting purposes. Rebecca From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: Updating People Records issue

2010-07-20 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
FWIW, look at the Data Wizard Console under the Application Administration Console Foundation Data Management Tool. Person Name is one of the items that can be changed with this tool. This isn't feasible for a mass update like you have, but you could use it to look at the workflow BMC

Looking for Trouble

2010-07-15 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Good Morning, Every day (most every day, anyway) I try to find problems before they find me. For instance, I check the Requester Module and email messages for errors. I got to wondering: what do other people do? Do you have certain forms or processes you monitor? Do you check your

Re: Looking for Trouble

2010-07-15 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Robert From: Boyd, Rebecca E. boy...@wfu.edu To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, 15 July, 2010 14:36:32 Subject: Looking for Trouble ** Good Morning, Every day (most every day, anyway) I try to find problems before they find me. For instance, I

Re: Looking for Trouble

2010-07-15 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
monitoring, work flow to alert, or even add workflow to create and error or a warning. Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Boyd, Rebecca E. Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:37 AM To: arslist

Identification Reconcilitation

2010-07-13 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Hello, We are using Atrium Core Console 7.5.00. When I run a reconciliation job I can hover over the status bar to see how many items were processed, how many failed, how many were successful, etc. Is there any way I can see exactly what CIs were touched what was done to them, even if

Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question

2010-06-23 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Boyd, Rebecca E. Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question If they know the form name, they still can get to it by creating an artask

Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question

2010-06-22 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
When some of my users discovered they could see - in some cases modify - lots of forms using the API interface, they raised a concern. My security people are not happy. This is what BMC sent me from internal KB 20021753: The User form has Public hidden permission. While using

Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question

2010-06-22 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Boyd, Rebecca E. Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:47 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question When some of my users discovered they could see - in some cases modify - lots

Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question

2010-06-22 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
] On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.5 Mid Tier Object List Question Object list is a Normal Remedy Form, maybe you can go in and customize the form... On Jun 22, 12:55 pm, Boyd, Rebecca E. boy...@wfu.edu wrote: Security by Obscurity

Support Staff vs. Customer notifications

2010-06-18 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Good Friday Morning! I would like: Email notifications to Support staff regarding assignment to contain both the artask Web URL. Email notifications to customers regarding case open, resolved, etc. to contain only the Web URL. It looks to me like checking/unchecking these options in

Re: Support Staff vs. Customer notifications

2010-06-18 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
notifications and manual email notifications (see Page 13). Hope this helps.. Terry On Jun 18, 2010, Boyd, Rebecca E. boy...@wfu.edu wrote: ** Good Friday Morning! I would like: Email notifications to Support staff regarding assignment

Re: CI Name ???

2010-06-18 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We use this basic format: Model: Serial Number So a laptop would be T400:LVN1234 and a monitor 20 Flat Panel: V6C67343 Our asset manager chose this it seems to work well for everyone who deals with assets. Rebecca From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: KB tool

2010-06-15 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We are looking at deploying KM it for internal purposes (at least initially) and fall under the category of a small to medium shop. Exactly how hard is it to get it up and running? Assuming we get past the installation, how much configuration is there before it is actually usable?

Re: Email text being stripped

2010-05-05 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
] On Behalf Of Boyd, Rebecca E. Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:37 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Email text being stripped ** Hi, We used incoming emails to submit new incidents in a pre 7x environment for years. In our new 7.5 system we are seeing the following glitch. Steps

Email text being stripped

2010-05-04 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Hi, We used incoming emails to submit new incidents in a pre 7x environment for years. In our new 7.5 system we are seeing the following glitch. Steps to reproduce: Send an email to the AR System. Press Enter when composing the text that will go into the Notes field. Example:

Re: CI Name - Computer Systems

2010-03-25 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Our Computer Systems CI name follows this format: Model:Serial Number Our asset manager chose this it seems to work well. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Greg Donalson Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Re: ars 7.5 client / admintool - devstudio - Installation issues

2010-03-08 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
This is what I did for installation issues: 1. Go to c:\temp delete any temp files left by the Remedy installer. Try the install again. 2. If it still doesn't work, repeat step 1. Copy the install folder to a different location try again. From: Action Request System

Multi-Tenancy

2009-12-17 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
I am trying to figure out if I haven't configured our environment correctly or if I do just not understand how this should work. Environment: 7.5 - patch 3, Windows 8, Oracle 10g 2 operating companies: IT Support HR 1 customer company: Campus Users IT Support

Re: 6.3 user tool with 7.5 Server

2009-11-21 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We are upgrading as well have been using the 7.5 client with both our 6.3 production and 7.5 test environment. I switch back forth between the environments using the same client. Just make sure that if you go to patch 3 of the client that you get patch 3a. I don't know that plain old patch 3

Re: ARS 7.5 Patch 001 ? or Patch 002? or Patch 003?

2009-11-11 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We were on 7.5 patch 2 (VM, Windows 2008, Oracle 10) moved to patch 003. We did not experience server crashes on either patch. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Re: Incident permissions problem...

2009-10-30 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
I had a situation last week where config categorization admins were missing the add button on the Product Catalog form. BMC had me open the user form look at the group list for the affected people. My users were missing Atrium Foundation Admin. Once I added that my users had their add

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-19 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
What are the issues with 508 compliance? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of michael campbell Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.5 or 7.6 ** Pretty sure 7.6 is going to fix the 508