Re: Announcements: Doug Mueller has left BMC, ARSlist will be shutting down on US Thanksgiving, Nov. 28th

2019-10-02 Thread Randeep Atwal
of your life All of my best wishes.. Randeep Atwal On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 2:46 PM wrote: > Doug Mueller’s last day at BMC was Monday, September 30th. As we all > know, Doug was the creator of the ARSystem as a founding member of Remedy > Corporation. > > > > He has always re

Re: Regarding MS SQL Server to Oracle Migration

2018-03-05 Thread Randeep Atwal
I have nothing against Oracle, but just thought I'd mention that you could maybe look into running SQL Server 2017 since it's now available for Linux as well as Windows, if your DBA's are ready for it. Remedy 9.x uses JDBC drivers to connect to the DB so it might be ok. On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at

Re: Loadbalancer traffic distribution question

2018-02-02 Thread Randeep Atwal
If you have restarted all of your arservers, without the right settings, all of your mid-tiers might be still connecting to just the first ARServer you started up. one way to trigger a rebalance is to click on 'Balance Now' from the mid-tier config pages. May I ask how are you determining an

Re: Loadbalancer traffic distribution question

2018-02-01 Thread Randeep Atwal
>From the Mid-Tier side, you also might want to review your setttings as described here to work with the load balancer settings: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Configuring+the+mid+tier+connection+pool

Re: Filter Firing

2018-01-12 Thread Randeep Atwal
If you're not already doing it, considering that you want to have minimal impact on users hitting the server you are running on, the normal recommendation is to use an RPC private thread to isolate the load to that thread, and not compete with Fast/List threads that are taking user workload. On

Re: Is there a state of the art way to prevent unauthorised access to Form Views in Mid Tier?

2017-11-17 Thread Randeep Atwal
Check out this configurable approach. https://docs.bmc.com/docs/ars91/en/specifying-an-actor-based-form-view-609071116.html It's not permissions, based and as mentioned on thread, you would want to control permissions at the field level. But I think this approach would accomplish what you want

Re: What's the NextId?

2017-10-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
sending that email immediately push it to a staging form and > run an escalation to send emails after the holy grail Request-ID is finally > there. > > 3. Any other ideas? > > On 13. Oct 2017, at 04:08, Randeep Atwal <ratwals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ** > Rick, everythi

Re: What's the NextId?

2017-10-12 Thread Randeep Atwal
ood a server with events within a short period of > time that generate hundreds/thousands of records in a short period of time. > > Dave > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:11 PM Randeep Atwal <ratwals...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> ** >> Rick, everything that generates

Re: What's the NextId?

2017-10-12 Thread Randeep Atwal
Rick, everything that generates NextID's must come through an ARSystem server so I don't know what you mean when you say 'If you have multiple outside entities creating large number of records at once' All requests go through the AR Server. I would theorize that you may have other factors in

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Automated Ticket

2017-01-20 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Mark Since you said it was originally Incidents, and then you changed it to work orders. If you are ok with using the Change Module, here are links to OOTB functionality that allow you to create schedules against CI's that will create Change Requests on a recurring schedule. If you use this,

Re: So we can use this now, right?

2016-11-02 Thread Randeep Atwal
Here's a twist with VA you might want to consider - If your organization uses Microsoft Lync (now called Skype for Business), you may want to consider this https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/vchat91/Integrating+with+Microsoft+Lync On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:58 AM, John Johnson

Re: 9.0 Filter table walk issue

2015-12-30 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Mike Can you confirm if the same code worked on a pre 9.0 system? If so, I'd recommend you file this with BMC Support. But before reporting it, please ensure you are using `! on the filter doing the push into a seperate form if you are not already doing so.

Re: Fed Ex

2015-07-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Warren Did not build one, but they do have various options when I discussed it way back with them Since you mention shipping and print labels, one of their solutions is installing Fedex shipping software on your shipping staffs PC's. Then they configure an OBDC driver on that software that

Re: Does remedy 8.1 have or support a Croom PostgreSQL plugin

2015-06-09 Thread Randeep Atwal
https://dbaspot.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/how-to-access-postgresql-from-oracle-database/ Follow instructions to create a dblink and then build a view form in Dev studio that refers to the remote db. On Jun 9, 2015 10:40 PM, MalviyaSaurabh malviya.saurab...@gmail.com wrote: We have an

Re: Food for thought - email engine

2015-06-02 Thread Randeep Atwal
I think you may be getting affected by this defect: SW00471616 Email engine log shows exception java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException *Hotfix Version Stamp:* 8.1.00 201410281446 Hotfix *Files Patched:* emaildaemon.jar armapi81_build001.dll Check to see if you are

Re: ARS Remedy to MySQL

2014-11-03 Thread Randeep Atwal
Create a dblink from oracle to mysql, you can Google this, it is possible using oracle heterogeneous services. Then once you have that link created, you can create as many view forms as needed in Dev studio using the linked table names, see your vmc remedy docs for info on view forms. On Nov 3,

Re: PERFORM-ACTION-ADD-ATTACHMENT fails

2014-07-05 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Joel, Phase 3 operations such as Run Process continue without waiting for previous operations to complete. Since there is no return code given when using run process it makes sense that although your pdf file is getting created, it is not getting created before the subsequent filter run

Re: Multiple incoming email boxes

2014-06-19 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Tauf, I had faced a similar problem in the past. Upwards of 30 mailboxes across different departments. We did have just one email engine configured for all of them, but ran into large latency since it would go through them all serially, meaning that mailboxes with 1 or 2 unread messages

Re: Copying a decimal field into a currency field

2014-05-19 Thread Randeep Atwal
** Check out the database Ref document for 7.0I recall that for currency fields, there are four columns that need updating. Value, Code, Date of conversion and value for the supported currencies.They all use the same field id with special suffixes, so it will be tricky with sql but ou could set it

Re: Copying a decimal field into a currency field

2014-05-19 Thread Randeep Atwal
C1 = '0044210' Thanks in advance, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Randeep Atwal Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 3:36

Re: Copying a decimal field into a currency field

2014-05-19 Thread Randeep Atwal
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Randeep Atwal Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 3:36 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Copying a decimal field into a currency field ** Check out the database Ref document for 7.0 I recall that for currency fields

Re: Transactional (TR) and Database (DB)

2014-05-18 Thread Randeep Atwal
** I can't think of anything that has ever come up as a requirement that I would need it for.BUT, (and i'm reaching here. :-) treating your question as a teaser Charlie.If someone had a requirement that a message should be popped to users of the user tool or mid-tier when they were modifying an

Re: Server Error in '/' Application following Windows Update

2014-03-05 Thread Randeep Atwal
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Re: Decrypt AR User password

2013-12-31 Thread Randeep Atwal
** If you create a special form (or have a generic form for similar things) for password validation on your at server you could do a create entry on the server and run the validate process via a filter on submit since filters run with admin permissions.Then your api can get the result from the

Re: Decrypt AR User password

2013-12-30 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi James Check out this thread, you can use Application-Confirm-Password to confirm a users password https://communities.bmc.com/thread/38509?start=0tstart=0 Hope this helps, Randeep On 12/30/2013, 3:51 PM, James Smith bmcremedyarslis...@gmail.com wrote: I want to allow user to change the

Re: Total Time Spent on an incident

2013-11-21 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Neha Maybe this link will help. It really depends on your exact requirement. This HPD:Help Desk Assignment Log form captures how long the Incident was assigned for each support group/assignee Here is a link to a previous discussion on this form:

Re: User form changes in 7.1.0

2013-11-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
** ‎You probably already did this but just checking - Did you check the permissions assigned on the request id / entryid on the user form?

Re: User form changes in 7.1.0

2013-11-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
form changes in 7.1.0 ** Hands head in shame; no - I hadn't checked on that. And that has resolved it :) Many, many thanks. On 13 November 2013 13:25, Randeep Atwal ratwals...@gmail.com wrote: ** You probably already did this but just checking - Did you check the permissions assigned

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2013-10-31 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Andrey Yes, it is possible. However, this is not really a Remedy/AR/ITSM question. It¹s more related to which web server/load balancer technology you are using. You can implement SSL using the web server or load balancer. Most remedy environments that care about some type of high

Re: Change Management

2013-10-28 Thread Randeep Atwal
The scenario I would recommend for true Œbusiness end users¹ submitting change requests is to have them submit the change via SRM. Depending on what is being requested, SRM can have various SRD¹s mapping to specific routing/approvals/prod cats/op cats etc. You want to hide the complexity for the

Re: Email Workflow Generate HPD Ticket

2013-10-15 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi Kathy As Roger said, there is some functionality included with ITSM 8 that does this. So if you have a server with ITSM 8 installed you could do a few things: 1. Are you considering upgrading to ITSM 8 ­ there are many major enhancements you would also gain as well as generating tickets

Re: OT: Prevent MT Login

2013-09-06 Thread Randeep Atwal
** You could use Disable-Client-Operation: 9 in ar.conf You can specify times and an exclusion group of users it should not apply to.Not code, configuration...Look in

Re: iPad App

2013-03-05 Thread Randeep Atwal
** Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

Re: Bring back the ARSList MVP for 2013

2012-10-24 Thread Randeep Atwal
Yes! Come on people, vote! --Original Message-- From: pascale.sterr...@daimler.com Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Bring back the ARSList MVP for 2013 Sent: Oct 24, 2012 11:04 AM Yes Please! If you

Re: ARERR 300 Malloc failed on server

2012-10-24 Thread Randeep Atwal
If it's happening with attachments, I had this once before when the file system on the server was too full, since attachments go to local disk before going into the db I believe.. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Cecil, Ken

Re: Re-use Login ID in Remedy

2012-10-08 Thread Randeep Atwal
Maybe using their unique corporate id in the login name field, and using their Login in the special 'authentication alias' (I think that's what it's called) field on the user form (see docs) will be the best approach. Then all your last modified by, used by relationships, assignee login id's

Re: Email Engine Hanging

2012-09-07 Thread Randeep Atwal
Running a query (monitoring tools usually have a db row count monitor) of the oldest unsent message greater than x minutes ago is a way to understand if it's hung and automate a restart. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From:

Re: Oracle vs. SQL

2012-09-05 Thread Randeep Atwal
If you're an ms shop, you can't go far wrong with SQL Server. It is used for many terabyte installations. Which db do your dba's know better? Oracle is available on more platforms so portability is improved. Remember you cannot have arserver running on linux connecting to mssql on windows,

Re: plugin question : MAINWORKOR

2012-08-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
I think MAINWORKORDER is the alias for the WOI:WorkOrder form used by the OverViewConsole vendor form. So the vendor form configuration may need it's datatype mapping updated, or the work order form field reverted. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-30 Thread Randeep Atwal
I would recommend not waiting since the thread is blocked and this isn't good for thread scalability. I'd suggest: When you call the service, set your transaction status to sent, and populate a 'confim/retry datetime' for now plus x seconds) An escalation in a dedicated pool every minute, or

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-30 Thread Randeep Atwal
to be told by a light switch that my operation is accepted and that light may be turned off or on after 5 minutes.. Please come back and check the status of that light again.. I do appreciate your inputs though.. very valid points.. Joe From: Randeep Atwal Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:23 PM

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-30 Thread Randeep Atwal
a tenth of a second.. From: Randeep Atwal Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:45 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions... ** ** If the call is actually synchronous, I'd tell the OIM side folks to expose

Re: ARERR [9130] Error encountered while executing a Web Service....

2012-04-03 Thread Randeep Atwal
Maybe it is returning an array which remedy cannot map back to a single field. Since the service supports multiple phone numbers as input according to the wsdl help, I think that's likely. That's a big limitation of using native remedy web service consumption, only way we got around this was

Re: Performance Tuning

2012-03-14 Thread Randeep Atwal
If you refresh multiple tables via one active link, it now treats them as one roundtrip between client and server, verified with fiddler. I believe this is 7.6.4 forward, there are good opportunities for some optimization if you see multiple refreshes on unrelated tables (order of refreshes

Re: Hyperlinks in MidTier

2011-12-13 Thread Randeep Atwal
Only workaround I am aware of is to upgrade arserver to 7.6.4 and convert necessary field to rich text format. Hth, RandeepHth, Randeep/div Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Nall, Roger roger.n...@t-mobile.com Sender:

Re: Loadbalancer issue in Mid-Tier 7.6.04 SP2

2011-11-21 Thread Randeep Atwal
They mean software cluster at the web server level. �This works with the exception of Atrium CMDB as far as I know. �BMC are working on making Atrium work (they have some non serializable classes at present within Atrium I believe), but normal arsystem forms will now work with a clustered setup

Poartitioning

2010-01-15 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi All, Is anyone in particular leveraging oracle partitioning to help with performance and scalability? I am investigating options other than archiving to a seperate form since that method breaks reports that require access across a large span of data, unless you build unions between

Remedy for facilities management

2009-11-17 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi listers, Just wanted to reach out and get a quick poll from the list as to whether you have used Remedy to cater to your organizations Facilities Management needs. Here are the areas of particular interest: Preventative and Reactive Maintenance on Facilities assets such as HVAC, UPS,

Operating System Preference for Remedy

2008-02-09 Thread Randeep Atwal
Hi List, Thought it would be a good idea to reach out and get the lists feedback and experiences on the OS that you use with Remedy. We are presently trying to select an OS platform for ARS and ITSM 7. We are not yet tied down to any specific OS, but the main focus of our comparison is

Re: Failure during SQL operation to the database

2007-02-01 Thread Randeep Atwal
) - Depending on how the imp is done the database is restored, but the ARAdmin user can be recreated without the necessary privileges (i.e. create view privilege) Regards Randeep Atwal ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist