Re: Email Engine Question

2010-01-25 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Setup an inbox rule in your mail client or mail server to delete messages that contain those phrases you want to ignore. That way they won't be there when the email engine polls. Chad Hall | Software Developer Acxiom Information Systems 501-342-2650 office | 501-472-1379 cell |

Re: Floating User License Ratio

2009-01-27 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Use RRR|LicenseMonitor to see how many you need. Its not free, but it easily pays for itself and then some. If you're considering buying more licenses its well worth it to let RRR analyze your user usage to see what mix of fixed/floating you really need. Who knows, maybe you have seldom-used fixed

Re: Remedy 7 Upgrade Project Plan (with Milestones)

2009-01-14 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Is this just an AR Server upgrade? Or is ITSM involved? Do they also use DSO, Approval Server, Flashboards, FTS, etc? There's a big difference between upgrading ARS and upgrading all the other apps and components along with it. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Cluster/Failover/Load Balancer Recommendations

2008-12-16 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Here's what's worked well for us the last few years: Load Balanced (Big IP) Mid Tier servers (Windows/Apache/Tomcat) Load Balanced AR Server (Windows) in a Server Group configuration Clustered Database servers (Windows active/passive cluster) RAID 10 SAN for database files This works really

Re: UPDATE: Intermittent, Spotty ARS Performance (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-12-04 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Conny is right. Check the disk I/O stats on your DB server while you run the diary search. Then compare that to what Performance Monitor recommends you stay under. There are some very useful stats that PerfMon doesn't have, but you can derive those from other stats. But just start with basics

Re: Re : Remedy Alert

2008-11-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We use a load balancer and we have remote clients. We don't have to map their remote IP in our ar.cfg file. But we do need the following: Map-IP-Address: load-balancer_ip local_ARServer_ip Map-IP-Address: other_load_balanced_ARServer_ip local_ARServer_ip Alert-Ignore-Actual-Client-IP: T

Re: HTML Email Template

2008-11-18 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I haven't done HTML emails, so I can't speak to that. But you could add workflow to suppress emails for all but a select few email addresses. Then you could turn your Email Engine on and let it send emails to one of those email addresses. We do this in our dev and test environments. We have

Re: User operations halt while group cache is performed

2008-10-23 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Do you have development cache mode enabled? If so, it handles caching differently. With this enabled it will block all users until the change is complete. Its ideal for development environments because the changes happen faster. With this disabled, it creates a copy of the cache and only replaces

Re: User operations halt while group cache is performed

2008-10-23 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
ar.conf i'll also add the Copy-Cache-Logging command in there as well. By setting this value to 0, would workflow changes essentially behave same then? On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Do you have development cache mode enabled? If so, it handles

Re: Changed field size on a Field

2008-09-23 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
You should be able to correct it in your database by modifying the correct row in the field_char table. If all you did was change the field length, then the only change in the data dictionary (that I know of) would be the maxLength column in the field_char row for that schemaid/fielded. Just

Re: Easy way to find changes after an upgrade?

2008-09-18 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Carey, That's a good point about the imports not being logged very well. But it doesn't log that actual workflow changes very well either. It points you in a direction to look, but you still have to do more legwork. You mentioned the API calls that can find objects based on a timestamp. That's a

Re: Easy way to find changes after an upgrade?

2008-09-17 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Enable Server Events logging for all the different types of objects before your upgrade and then do a report on the Server Events form after your upgrade. You won't get low-level details of what changed, but it will tell you what kind of change it was at a high level. You'll need to refer to the

Re: dynamic infopage built in remedy - how to bypass login page

2008-07-25 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Why not use a Restricted Read license? It can then login from multiple IPs, and since you don't need to update anything it should work fine. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Unqualified Searches in Very Large Enterprises -- Thoughts, Please

2008-07-22 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We use the special 'Search Criteria' field (ID 1005). I put that display-only field on forms I want to lock down searches on. Then I setup an active link, firing On Search, that throws an error if 'Search Criteria' = $NULL$ and a select set of other fields are also null. I handpick the other

Re: java.lang.NullPointerException email error

2008-07-17 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I've had this problem every few days since upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0.1 patch 5. It occurs when the Email Engine loses its connection to AR Server, a risk that is higher in my environment because I have a separate standalone Email Engine server. Once this happens all new outgoing emails get this

Re: Email Engine AR 7.0.1

2008-07-03 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
There's an issue with the 7.0.1 email engine where if it loses its connection to AR Server (ARERR 90) it will throw NullPointerException java errors and never reconnect until you cycle the service. Also, every outgoing email processed after the initial NullPointerException error will have its Send

Re: SQL Server huge translogs and very poor performance

2008-06-24 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
What kind of disk subsystem is your database on? Faster the better. But also make sure your transaction log is on a completely separate set of physical disks than your data file. That way they won't contend for the same resources. If possible, keep the paging file and the OS on their own dedicated

Re: MAPILogonEx Failed - Unable to login to MAPI (365,868 records on AR System Email Error Logs)

2008-06-23 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We get this same error sporadically and cycling the Email Engine service always clears it up. We're on 7.0.1 patch 5, but had the same problem on 6.3. It's frustrating, I know. BMC has never figured out what the cause is. So we only use MAPI for incoming mail. We use SMTP for outgoing because it's

Re: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Make sure your table field has the Refresh On Entry Change option selected. That will cause it to refresh as soon as you display the entry, and you won't need an active link to force the refresh. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Tables not refreshing On Open

2008-05-30 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
When you say the table doesn't refresh, does it still display Click to refresh within the table field? Or is it just an empty table? If it doesn't have that wording and its just empty, then it refreshed but didn't find any matches. In which case you should check your qualification. Since you say

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
You really only have one sample on Server A without NextID blocks, so perhaps a few more samples there would show its really the same as when you used NextID blocks on that server. Which would indicate you weren't bumping the bottleneck that this alleviates. I suspect something is different on

Re: Temporarily disable DSO?

2008-05-09 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
If you want to stop all transactions to a particular target server then do something that will cause a recoverable error in DSO. A connection error usually has that effect. It will keep retrying the transaction until it reaches the limit defined by the mapping (which is probably infinite). The

Re: Configuring Multiple AR Email Engine

2008-04-09 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Yes it is possible to configure an email engine to only process specific mailboxes. But more likely configuring your email engine to use a private queue, and then configuring that queue to have a Max Thread setting as high as the total number of mailboxes, will achieve what you want. That will put

Re: Error upon server start up after 6.3 to 76.1 upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Not sure what's causing the crash, but it doesn't seem to be a licensed server. I've had lots of problems on my test 7.0.1 servers where changing the ar.cfg will cause it to think its unlicensed. I have to keep deleting the multilicense file and restarting AR Server to resolve it. Its happened a

Re: Server Groups

2008-04-03 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Use the virtual name or IP setup on the load balancer. Note that the load balancer itself will have its own name and IP, that's not the one you want to use. Be sure you're using the virtual name/IP that will get routed onto the actual AR Servers. Configure your load balancer to poll each AR Server

Re: Server Groups

2008-04-03 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
, Roger A. Nall Manager, OSSNMS Remedy T-Mobile, USA Desk: 813-348-2556 Cell: 973-652-6723 FAX: 813-348-2565 sf49fanv AIM IM RogerNall Yahoo IM From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal

Re: Remedy Code Backup

2008-04-03 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Use aradmin.exe from the command line to perform definition backups in a Windows scheduled task. For example: c:\program files\ar system\admin\aradmin.exe -x server_name -u user_name -p password -o error_log_file.log -e definition_file.def Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Crystal 9 embedded reports not working on ARS 7.0.1

2008-03-04 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've had reporting problems in Remedy User 7.0.1. All of our reports use either Local or Reporting Form. Unless the server name is entered in the User DSN we get: An error occurred while generating the Crystal report: 0x80047e48 - Logon failed. (ARERR 1904) It doesn't matter whether the

Re: Trouble with Uninstall ARS 6.0.3

2008-02-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Try logging in with a local administrator account. Not a domain account that is in the local Administrators group, but a locally-created account that is in the local Administrators group. I've seen this work sometimes. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: XML Parser Plug-in

2008-02-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
PM, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Is there any sort of plug-in that can parse an XML string? I need to call a web service that returns either an array of objects or an XML string with the data from the objects. Remedy can't consume a web service that returns arrays, so my

Re: XML Parser Plug-in

2008-02-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
= People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I would try both the original Filter Scripting Plugin as well as the Java Scripting Plugin. I installed the Filter Scripting Plugin but AR Server

Re: XML Parser Plug-in

2008-02-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Is there any sort of plug-in that can parse an XML string? I need to call a web service that returns either an array

XML Parser Plug-in

2008-02-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Is there any sort of plug-in that can parse an XML string? I need to call a web service that returns either an array of objects or an XML string with the data from the objects. Remedy can't consume a web service that returns arrays, so my only option is to retrieve the XML string. But now I'm

Re: SQL Server - indexes question

2008-02-21 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
On SQL 2000 it never seems to adjust the free space amounts properly until I do a DBCC UPDATEUSAGE. And it never reclaims very much free space until I do a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE. But I would recommend a DBCC DBREINDEX before that to make sure the structure of the table is optimized. I think that

Re: Email Engine Out of Box

2008-02-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I don't recall the Email Engine ever being referenced in armonitor.cfg. It's always been a separate service with the only dependency being defined in the registry to make the Email Engine service depend on the AR Server service. But in my last fresh 7.0.1 install even that dependency didn't exist.

Re: Semi-Colons and Email Addresses in v7.0.1P5?

2008-02-19 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I just tested this on 7.0.1 patch 5 and it worked for me. Although I did it by manually editing the 'TO' on an existing AR System Email Messages entry and resetting 'Send Message' = Yes. And I'm using SMTP instead of Exchange. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Semi-Colons and Email Addresses in v7.0.1P5?

2008-02-19 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
field? Perhaps this is only a CC field problem... //SIGNED// Craig Carter Software Engineer, RSP From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:44 PM

Re: Use the Server time rather than the Client Time in an Active Link

2008-02-12 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
$SERVERTIMESTAMP$ didn't work for us when we first tried it on 6.3 back in 2006. It used the client's timestamp every time. I logged an incident on it and they opened SW00251639 for it. I never heard if it was ever fixed in any 6.3 patch or in 7.x. I haven't tried it since. I'd be curious if

Re: Slow Email Engine

2008-02-06 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm still on 6.3 but I did some testing a while back on 7.0.1 (I believe it was patch 3), with most of the settings described below. I queued 1000 emails at a time and sent them out with various settings to measure throughput. Here are the summary points: 1. Emails without .ARTASK attachments

Re: Setting values to the Advanced Search bar

2008-02-01 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Misi, Please pass along any info you can on the versions you used, what type of injections were made to the SELECT statements, and how to reproduce the issue. I need to make sure this doesn't cause problems before I upgrade our prod system to 7.0.1 patch 5. Thanks, Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Setting values to the Advanced Search bar

2008-01-31 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
If BMC wants you to remove it, how else can you do things such as checking the advanced search criteria when users execute a search? We have workflow that requires users to use the advanced bar when they do a search unless they specified something in our indexed field in the QBE portion. It

Re: Pros and Cons of using different replication methods for failover/disaster recovery

2008-01-31 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've used Log Shipping for almost 5 years now for our DR server. It works very well, but it has its quirks and it takes us at least 20 minutes to perform a failover. Also, if it gets out of synch on a big database plan on spending an entire day or more getting it synched back up. If you want I

Re: Server Configuration Recommendations

2008-01-15 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've ran over 600 concurrent users on a 2x1.4 GHz with 1 GB of memory without any issues. And that's a system with millions of tickets and over 50,000 emails sent each day on only 20 fast, 20 list, plus some private threads. We have two of these so one doesn't normally carry that load, but it has

Re: Server Configuration Recommendations

2008-01-15 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
] On Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:58 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server Configuration Recommendations We've ran over 600 concurrent users on a 2x1.4 GHz with 1 GB of memory without any issues

Re: Server Configuration Recommendations

2008-01-15 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
SQL Server will have some tools to help you find those bottlenecks. 2005 is supposed to have a lot of new features, but I haven't used it. You can also use Performance Monitor and look at disk activity. I believe the counters come with an explanation of each metric and what acceptable values are.

Re: Automated email with many permutations

2008-01-14 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
If you don't care about formatting, create 6 filters (one for each question) to add the negative responses (and their questions) to a single character field. Then include that character field in your notification. If you need the questions formatted for HTML or something, I don't know. I'm

Re: Disabling Approval Server Assignment Engine

2008-01-11 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
You can disable Approval Server in armonitor.cfg like this: #C:\Program Files\AR System\serverap.exe -s YOURSERVER -i C:\Program Files\AR System -m Or you can keep it suspended in ar.cfg like this: Approval-Server-Suspended: T Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Disabling Approval Server Assignment Engine

2008-01-11 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling Approval Server Assignment Engine ** Approval is no longer a separate process starting with 7. It is now a plugin. Axton Grams On Jan 11, 2008 10:37 AM, Hall Chad - chahal

Re: Disabling Approval Server Assignment Engine

2008-01-11 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
: Disabling Approval Server Assignment Engine ** No, though I am not sure if the upgrade installer will remove the armonitor entry. You will notice a new plugin entry in ar.conf for arapprove.dll/so, and this is all you need. Axton On Jan 11, 2008 12:01 PM, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DSO connection errors

2008-01-10 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I've also seen this when you specify an RPC number on your target server connection settings that isn't configured on that target server. But usually it was when our target server was unreachable (network issue) or hung up. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action

Re: Database password for ARAdmin account

2008-01-04 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've always done the manual change to the ar.cfg of other server group members. If I recall, it doesn't do it automatically. But our process now is to just change it in the Admin tool on one server, manually edit the ar.cfg on the others, then cycle all of them. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Load Balancing

2007-12-12 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
You should go with 2 load balanced AR Servers in a server group with a separate standalone database server. Generally AR Server is going to be your bottleneck. A single database server should be able to easily handle the load of multiple AR Servers. Just be sure to configure your AR Servers for

Re: Migrator installation

2007-12-11 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I haven't tried it with 7.x versions, but older versions of Migrator were very CPU intensive to the machine running Migrator. So trying to do a migration with a Migrator client that is on the server you are migrating to or from was painstakingly slow. Which obviously affected users of that system

Re: Email Template Date Format

2007-11-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
11/18/2007 works for me. Check for the following line in your emaildaemon.properties file: com.remedy.arsys.emaildaemon.ARDATE= This setting lets you specify the date and time format used by the email engine for parsing date and time strings. M dd, HH:mm:ss z is equivalent to

Re: Full Email Address

2007-11-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I know there's a bug in the 6.3 Email Engine when using a MAPI mailbox in which it pulls in a display name for the 'Reply To' field, but only if the Reply To address is different than the From address. I've never seen it pull in a display name for the 'From' or 'To' fields. And I don't have a fix

Re: Email Template Parsing

2007-11-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Check your stderr.log file or the AR System Email Error Logs form for errors. It's bound to be getting some kind of error. Also check your AR System Email Mailbox Configuration entry for your Incoming mailbox and confirm that 'Email Action' is set to Parse Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Need immidiate HELP HELP Pls

2007-11-15 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Have you checked your escalation log, filter log, SQL log, arerror log, etc? One of those should give you some clues about what is going on. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarah

Re: Problem with MS SQL Server 2005

2007-11-09 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Looks like something crashed your server when it made the query. Check your arerror.log and arthread.log and see if you find more details on that. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Flashboards License

2007-11-08 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Hopefully a simple question for those that use Flashboards. I know that Flashboards requires a server license if you want to view more than 5 flashboards, but does it still require Flashboards User licenses as well? If so, do you have to have a Flashboards User license to view the 5 free

Re: Mid-Tier in Load Balancing

2007-11-05 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've used an F5 BigIP load balancer for two IIS servers for over 4 years without problems. They are currently running Mid Tier 6.3 patch 20 on IIS/ServletExec and are about to be rebuilt for Apache/Tomcat. But all the load balancing is done through the BigIP, not through IIS. We have a 60 minute

Re: Mid-Tier in Load Balancing

2007-11-05 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
. Howard On 11/5/07, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've used an F5 BigIP load balancer for two IIS servers for over 4 years without problems. They are currently running Mid Tier 6.3 patch 20 on IIS/ServletExec and are about to be rebuilt for Apache/Tomcat. But all the load

Re: Mid-Tier in Load Balancing

2007-11-05 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mid-Tier in Load Balancing ** Chad, We worked for 6 months to get the F5 to work with 7.0 mid-tier and gave up since our load was not to large.We are using IIS All I can say is good luck. Howard On 11/5/07, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Localization in ITSM?

2007-11-01 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Are the ITSM applications localized for any non-English languages out of the box? We have all custom apps so I've never seen ITSM. My management wants to know if the ITSM suite comes with localized views, field labels, messages, etc. If so, what languages does it have localized? And does is also

Re: WEBSERVICE

2007-10-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm curious about the part where you said the escalation queue gets held up and brings down the server. Are you saying your entire AR Server gets hung during or after a failed web service call? I've seen this before on my dev and test servers, but never in production. It seemed to happen

Re: Termination of SQL-calls in logfiles

2007-10-24 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Jarl, A bit off topic but... Out of curiosity, where did you get arwklga 2.15? I got 2.12 from someone at support last year. The last time I tried to download it from the BMCDN it was 2.11. Are there any new features in 2.15? Thanks, Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message-

rrrFlash

2007-10-22 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Has anyone used the free rrrFlash product from RRR? I downloaded the sample a while back and it looks pretty good for something free that requires no install. It would take quite a bit of workflow though. I'm wondering if anyone has implemented their own custom flashboards like his sample. Also

Re: DSO Issue

2007-10-17 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
The error is happening when DSO tries to update the 'Transfer Status' field on the source entry. You must have a filter triggering a custom error message (1) on Modify. The error number may make this one hard to find, but once you find it you'll need to add $USER$ != Distributed Server to its

Re: DSO Issue

2007-10-17 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
to stop the Distributed Server user from running filters. Now I a trying to figure out how\why this filter is firing with the above mentioned qualification. This is all happening on the primary server where the DSO action originated. On 10/17/07, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: v7.1 and the User/Group/Role forms w/ new stuff ( Standard WebServices, strange workflow...)

2007-10-09 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
On the Status field on the User form, are the enum values set to 10 and 20? If not, it sounds like whoever wrote the new filter expected the Status field to use custom ID enumeration but the form never got modified for it. I hope the upgrade doesn't change the enum values on that form unless it

Upgrade Stomps Core Forms (WAS: v7.1 and the User/Group/Role...)

2007-10-09 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm getting off subject a bit so I'm branching onto a new thread... I got tired of upgrades breaking our customizations so I wrote a bunch of SQL scripts that can compare two databases (presumably one upgraded, one not) to see what's different. These include: forms form permissions views indexes

Re: Alternatives to DSO for Data Transfer

2007-10-01 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:57 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Alternatives to DSO for Data Transfer What backend database are you running? And what version

Re: Alternatives to DSO for Data Transfer

2007-09-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
What backend database are you running? And what version of ARS? I've been told that either 7.0.1 or 7.1 (can't remember which) will support transactional replication. So for example you could setup SQL Server replication on the tables you want to keep in sync. I plan to do this for our

Re: How to get the form and field names?

2007-09-21 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've used the FormFields app from David Sanders for several years. You can find it at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sandersd/utilities.htm. It lists all forms, their fields, some field properties, and basic data type info. You can also search all forms for a particular field by either field

Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
: ** If you set up a private queue for mid-tier to increase performance, would'nt you then loose performance some other place? The total number of requests the server is capable to perform should still be the same Otherwise; pertum mobile... -- Jarl On 9/19/07, Hall Chad

Re: OLE Automation

2007-09-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We used to do that, but we never could send it From the server's address using OLE. Eventually annoying Outlook security popups made the whole thing hard to use. So we reworked it by giving the user a Remedy form where they define the To, Subject, and Body and then hit a Send button. This form

Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-19 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
to optimize, and I want to take full advantage of that. Thanks, Thad Esser Remedy Developer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.-- Richard Bach Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 09/18/2007 01:01

Re: Dedicated Queue for Mid-Tier

2007-09-18 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm not familiar with a white paper on this, but you should just be able to setup a new private queue in Remedy Administrator, specifying an appropriate Max Threads. Then in your Mid Tier config tool in the AR Server section, specify the RPC that corresponds to the private queue. Mid Tier should

Re: Updated : Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-18 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
prevails.. Cheers Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Updated : Malloc

Re: Updated : Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-17 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I've been testing 7.0.1 patch 4 so I just tried this out myself. It worked fine and didn't cause any errors anywhere. I tried executing it in both filters and active links, and both worked fine. Is there some other configuration setting that contributes to this that I may not have? Chad Hall

Re: 7.0.1 Expand Box Bug

2007-09-16 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 9/14/07, Hall Chad - chahal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I'm hoping for help with a bug in 7.0.1 where the Expand Box is now visible on all Submitter (2), Assigned To (4), and Modified By (5) fields. The installer changed all these fields to 254

7.0.1 Expand Box Bug

2007-09-14 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm hoping for help with a bug in 7.0.1 where the Expand Box is now visible on all Submitter (2), Assigned To (4), and Modified By (5) fields. The installer changed all these fields to 254 characters so they can hold the new longer usernames. The side effect is all these fields that had an Expand

Re: Obtain ARSystem.Exception message w/vbscript

2007-08-06 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
What version of the .NET API are you using? And exactly what error message are you getting back? Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haralson Kevin - kharal Sent: Friday,

Re: SQL Question - Fragmentation

2007-08-01 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
While SQL Server 2005 can do online index rebuilds, it requires that all TEXT columns be replaced with VARCHAR(MAX) columns. So all of your diary and unlimited character fields will have to be converted at the database level. BMC can't tell us if this will cause any problems or not in Remedy. My

Re: Server Clustering and Load Balancing

2007-07-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We've used F5 Big IPs to load balance two AR Servers and 2 Mid Tier servers since 2003. It works great. Its configured to monitor a given port every 15 seconds to make sure the application server is alive (port 9030 for AR Server, port 443 for Mid Tier). If at any point a server doesn't respond it

Re: Email engine and large number of groups

2007-07-29 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Actually, though undocumented, this setting works on 6.3 patch 20. We've been using for a few months. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007

B2B Integration Standards

2007-07-13 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Does anyone know of any standards for exchanging incidents with external companies through a B2B integration? We have a home-grown Java web service integrated with our custom Remedy incident management application. We use our own XML schema, data elements, data values, and transactions which are

Re: Reg : Remedy Automation Tool

2007-06-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I wish I did. We tried using Test Partner but couldn't get any maintainable scripts using Remedy User. Some things such as menu selection and button clicks are just too hard to script if you need them to trigger workflow. We settled on using Mid Tier with Test Partner and it works okay but its

Re: ARS Plugin RPC ports

2007-06-20 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
RPC refers to the RPC Program Number of a specific server queue. It is not a TCP port of any kind. Normally you would leave this blank unless you have defined a private queue in Remedy Administrator (Server Information Server Ports Queues), in which case you would specify the RPC number of that

Re: AREmail and performance questions

2007-06-08 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
There are several things you can do to speed up emails. We have tuned ours so that it can send between 300-500 per minute. We reach those levels several times a day. We can get 1000 per minute if server load is low and the emails do not contain ARTask attachments. Here are a few things you can

Re: AR EMail Engine: does it support multipart MIME

2007-06-05 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm pretty sure it does. We tested this in the ATS class I took a couple years ago by sending an HTML email and checking it in both a rich client and a text-only client. It worked great. Outlook showed HTML, the other client showed only text. I didn't have to do anything in the Email Engine to get

Re: Argh! email engine just spamed all users!

2007-05-16 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Create a user with a username, or group with a group name, of -. Create another one with a name of 0. That way if this happens again Remedy will interpret it as the group or user by that name and only attempt to notify that group/user instead of all users. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: Argh! email engine just spamed all users!

2007-05-16 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Argh! email engine just spamed all users! Create a user with a username, or group with a group name, of -. Create another one with a name of 0. That way

IIS to Tomcat

2007-05-16 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We are currently running Mid Tier 6.3 p20 on IIS/ServletExec. We're planning to upgrade to Mid Tier 7.0.1 and replace IIS/ServletExec with a standalone Tomcat 5.5 instance. We haven't tested this beyond a simple install that could connect to our AR Server. Our next step will be to duplicate all

Re: Suppressing ARWARN 1203 Message

2007-05-15 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
If you have the ARDBC plugin installed on your server, you can make ar.cfg changes using the Configuration ARDBC form. Look for an existing entry with 'Name' = Suppress-warnings, or create a new one with that name. Use 1203 as the value. Then get your admin to cycle the service. By they way,

Re: Email Engine Priority Field

2007-05-11 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I think the Priority field in the Email Engine is strictly used by the Email Engine to prioritize messages as it processes the queue. If it is configured to take the Priority into account, then it will process higher priority emails first. This seems to be most useful for very high volume Email

Re: Emails send diary field database value, not screen content

2007-03-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Are you forcing any of the notifications into Phase 1 by adding `! to the filter name? I think I've seen this happen in notification filters we've forced into phase 1. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Add a Column to Table Prefs

2007-03-22 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We tried the same thing. We came to the conclusion that it just doesn't work like that. It seems that you have to make it visible and let users hide it on their own. Just for the heck of it we tried making a column visible and then adding an active link to hide it on display. That didn't work

Re: ARS 6.3 - encryption between ARS and AREmail.

2007-03-22 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Here is what I've been using in our test environment for over a year without problems: Encrypt-Security-Policy: 0 Encrypt-Public-Key-Expire: 43200 Encrypt-Symmetric-Data-Key-Expire: 2700 Encrypt-Public-Key-Algorithm: 4 Encrypt-Data-Encryption-Algorithm: 1 This allows encryption

Re: MS SQL

2007-03-21 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
Remedy uses the SQL Server client, which must be installed on the Remedy server to allow connectivity to a SQL Server. That install creates its own data source. The AR System ODBC Driver is used by other clients to communicate directly with the AR Server. Chad Hall (501) 342-2650

Re: ARS 6.3 - encryption between ARS and AREmail.

2007-03-21 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
We have a separate AR Server and Email Engine. We're not using encryption, but it would be very easy to implement. Just add the ar.cfg tags needed to enable and enforce the level of encryption you want, and all API clients (including the email engine) should start using encryption automatically.

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