CMDB 2.0.1 - Where would you put this data?

2007-11-15 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Listers - Looking at the skinnied-down CDM, how would you track the following: Server w/ two network cards that each have two specific IP addresses (for failover, for example) associated with them. Server goes into ComputerSystem class, no problem. From there, I could: 1) Put the

Re: How to speed up Import?

2007-02-28 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Thanks Axton, Rick - good info! I appreciate the replies! Regards, Cindy ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are

RESOLVED: Re: How to parse contents of char field with multiple rows

2007-02-28 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Carey - Thanks for the information, I appreciate your response - I'd done a search, but hadn't originally come up with anything specifically relevant. I tried what you suggested, and couldn't get it to quite work - but based on your input, played around with it a little after using a hex

Re: How to parse contents of char field with multiple rows

2007-02-28 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Carey - Got it! I actually had posted something this a.m. about it, b/c your post did lead me to what I needed to do - it seems that some of my posts make it and others don't, not sure what that's all about. Thanks for taking the time to spell it out - it is much appreciated! Best regards!

How to speed up Import?

2007-02-27 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi All - Importing slightly less then 200,000 records from our current system into Remedy (ARS 7.0.01 patch 001, CMDB 2.0.1 patch 002, BMC Asset 7.0.02 patch 003, SQL Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server) from the command line (arimportcmd) using a private queue. Due to the way the CMDB is

Re: How to parse contents of char field with multiple rows

2007-02-27 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Carey - Thanks very much for the response, I appreciate your repeating this information. I've tried what you've suggested - and STRSTR is returning a -1 for no value found. I've tried the following: STRSTR($Character Field$, LTRIM( \n)) STRSTR($Character Field$, \n) STRSTR($Character

How to parse contents of char field with multiple rows

2007-02-23 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi All - Is there any way to parse the contents of a char field that is set to multiple rows, and has data that looks like this: John Doe 123 Main Street Anywhere, Anystate Where there is a carriage return delimeter? I notice in the dbase, spaces and carriage returns are saved as spaces -

RAID info in CMDB

2007-01-23 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Listers - Is anyone storing RAID information (RAID level, adapter, bios, etc.) in the CMDB? If so, what class did you use for this? Just trying to get some ideas Thanks, Cindy ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access

Re: What is Definitive Software Library (DSL)? and Updates downloadable

2007-01-02 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Yup, if you want to stick with the out-of-the-box DSL, Chris is right - you'll be stuck with the Software - Application - Third Party - Product Name categories - my question is - what good does this do for reporting purposes? If almost everything sits in that one CTI (I think there is one

Question re: Self-join forms - what are they? (sp. AST: Forms for Asset 7.0 app)

2006-12-18 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Listers - Happy Holidays! I have a basic question regarding self join forms (I'm specifically looking at AST: forms from the Asset 7.0 app). For example - AST:ComputerSystem is a join of BMC.CORE:BMC_ComputerSystem to another BMC.CORE:BMC_ComputerSystem. What's the purpose of this? If

Re: Anyone using cmdb2.0.1/Asset 7.0 patch 2 and extended the cmdb?

2006-12-05 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Rick - Thanks for the reply, and chuckle I wouldn't be surprised if it were something as stupid as versions that we missed /chuckle, although in this case we've updated all of our tools to the newest release/patch as per support's instructions. I will, however, double check that, just in

Re: CMDB and naming conventions

2006-11-16 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Jason, We create new classes in our own namespace. In the CMDB2.0 Concepts Best Practices Guide - it recommends this as a best practice Here's the snippet: Whenever you extend the data model, you should use your own namespace instead of BMC.CORE. This prevents your extensions from being

Re: CMDB Common Data Model

2006-11-13 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Oliver - Do you mean the HTML docs that all link together so you can traverse the CDM? If so, you can (and probably should) modify the HTML docs to add any extensions. I actually found this little blurb in the CMDB2.0 Concepts and Best Practices Guide (pg 73) - and amazingly, actually

Re: Asset 7.0 - Bug?

2006-11-13 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
We're running Asset 7.0 and not having any issues with these classes (out of the box...no modifications yet :)) ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are

Incident Mgmt 7.0 Product Categorizations Software

2006-11-12 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hello Listers - In IM, as far as I can tell, Product Categorization comes from the Product Catalog, and the Product Catalog is loaded with software that is created when you load the DSL. DSL Software Products are all categorized as Software/Application/Third Party or Software/Operating

Re: EIE 7.0 Issues (hanging + API Error)

2006-10-31 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Kelly - Thanks. EIE.cfg was actually set to 5 minutes before I started having these issues. Set it to 1 to see if I could get something more kicked off, and backed it out to 200 to see if things would catch up. Starting and stopping the service did nothing. Only thing that enabled

Re: CMDB/DSL - Cleaning Up Product Dictionary Entries

2006-10-30 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Michael - No solution for you, but we will likely do something similar. We've done some editing of the DSL behind the scenes, using the forms you've already mentioned, and have not seen issues. We'll likely build our own maintenance form(s) as well for any future DSL updates. Having

EIE 7.0 Issues (hanging + API Error)

2006-10-30 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Listers - Having issues with EIE 7.0 hanging after working for about a week. I have several active data exchanges which worked until 2 days ago, then just stopped. Have debugging on, and after restarting EIE service, eiemain.dbg would just show Starting to look for changes to data exchange

Re: ITSM 7.0 PDL-Contracts relationship question - WAS RE: sanity check

2006-10-30 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Silly question - but when you say relate contract to an item in the product catalog - do you mean relate a contract to an asset (CI)? If so, what type of asset and what type of contract? Cindy ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: CMDB Question

2006-10-30 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
We'll be in the same boat as well. After a first pass look at where to put things, we're thinking of creating either a subclass under BMC_HardwareSystemComponent, or a cat. subclass under Media for the SAN devices themselvesremains to be seen what our folks need to track about them though

Re: cmdb 2.0 data

2006-10-19 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Derek, In addition to what Murtuza has said, you'll also need to set up your product catalog with the products set up in the same classes that you are importing into (i.e. BMC_ComputerSystem) before you populate the CMDB. If you don't - you'll get menu pattern matching errors. Good luck!

ITSM 7.0 permissions summary ?

2006-10-17 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hello all, Is there any particular document that summarizes the permissions (application permissions, etc.) in ITSM 7.0 - rather than having to slog through all the user manuals where it says something like to do this you have to be an Asset Manager? Just looking for a chart or something

Re: Merges Vs. Submit and Modify for Filters

2006-10-13 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Lisa - Can you tell me how you are able to update through an import? In reading this post, I'm interested in trying to figure out what you're doing b/c we have a number of instances where an update through a straight import would come in handy. Or - are you importing a file and handling

Re: Merges Vs. Submit and Modify for Filters

2006-10-13 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Lisa - Well whaddya know! I'm glad I asked - b/c I didn't even notice that option! I was under the impression that you couldn't key on any data for an update, so this is great news. Thanks! Cindy ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: ITSM 7 - Operational Categories vs Product Categories

2006-10-05 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Chris- No problem, glad you could make sense of my ramblings :) It's just so nice to know that we're not alone in our gee, we really want to figure this out dilemma. In terms of the DVD drives - IMO your requirements and setup should help you determine which of the options (lump in CDROM

CMDB/DSL - Product Class vs. Software Class

2006-09-28 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi all, I'm posting this to Remedy support as well, but does anyone understand why the class the DSL products are in is the Products class and not the Software class? For example, if you install the sample data, there are a few Computer systems created - a Unix server and a Desktop

Re: Getting Ciscoworks data into CMDB 2.0

2006-09-26 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Jack, Thanks very much, that's a place to start! I appreciate the reply. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Product Catalog for creating CI's in CMDB2.0

2006-09-25 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
similar, or have any thoughts on a good way to implement? Best Regards, Cindy Sapochetti ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Re: Getting Ciscoworks data into CMDB 2.0

2006-09-22 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
, but if you could see your way to sharing your current mapping, or any other info, it would sure help us out a lot. Best Regards, Cindy Sapochetti ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org