Re: Performance testing.

2013-11-18 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Not ootb, would recommend Borland Silk or Scapatech... Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Karthik Nagaramu karthiknagar...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Performance testing. Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 06:43 ** Hi All, Does HP Loadrunner works with

Re: BMC Remedy Health Advisor

2013-09-16 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Hey Carl :) Christopher - Don't have much to add to what Carl stated really; he is obviously planning a book on the history of Remedy monitoring tools! Just like to reinforce his point around hosting your monitoring tool in the app its monitoring - it's a bad idea! A bit like a doctor being

Re: LoadTesting ITSM 764

2013-08-06 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Hi, I agree with LJ here, if you are testing the midtier backchannel API a handful of different users will help you avoid any caching problem, if you are testing the API then it becomes less important. One thing to be aware of is session handling and generalising unique IDs for setEntryList

Re: ARS 764 and Multiple Developers

2013-05-24 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Frank, this is in the BMC 7.6.4 tuning guide. Delay-Recache-Time The number of seconds before the latest cache is made available to all threads. Valid values are 0- 3600 seconds. The default value is 5 seconds. The recommended value is 300 (5 minutes). Dom -Original Message- From:

Re: How to monitor the health of the arserver?

2013-05-13 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Maybe a tool which injects an api transaction to mimic end users would be good here Howard? I can think of a few commercial options or maybe just a small java app run as a chron type job. Richter, Howard (CEI - Atlanta) howard.rich...@coxinc.com wrote: ** Hello to all, The past few nights

Re: Remedy IBM Rational Functional Tester or UrbanCode

2013-05-01 Thread Lewington, Dominic
I agree with Lj, in my experience the two tools noted will give the best results. I have seen many companies try and fail with other tools, the Remedy backchannel API is a complex beast! Please contact me if you want any more advice on automated Remedy testing. dlewing...@columnit.com Dom

Re: Remedy IBM Rational Functional Tester or UrbanCode

2013-05-01 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Jamie, I would be very cautious trying to make this tool work with Remedy I have seen customers disappear down a black hole with automated test tools and the Remedy protocol. Best to use something designed for purpose. The 2 tools Lj pointed out work very well. Dom -Original Message-

Re: Monitoring

2012-12-06 Thread Lewington, Dominic
ADV: Column Technologies make a tool called Sentinel which seems suited to your needs, maybe we could speak off list and setup a demo? S Test lak...@gmail.com wrote: Listners, What are different monitoring tools, ways to proactivley monitor Midtier, Apache, Weblogic, ARS application Servers

Re: missing person

2012-09-14 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Hello Deepak, I Interviewed Matthew for a position last year, I still have him on Skype. I will try and contact him for you. Please contact me off list and I will tell you if I have any success. Thanks! Dom From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: License

2012-08-10 Thread Lewington, Dominic
Hey Kathy, here at column technologies we make a tool called sentinel that can help monitor, manage and optimize your itsm and ars licensing I could show you it at some point if you would like? Dom KathyMorris kathymorris...@aol.com wrote: ** Hi, Is there a tool that manages licensing that