Re: Unable to connect BMC Remedy client tools to Arserver

2016-06-16 Thread Rick Westbrock
Do you know if the AR server is receiving the initial SYN packet? Is the client receiving the SYN/ACK packet? Window size shouldn’t really come into play until the three-way handshake between client and server has been completed. If I remember correctly once the TCP session has been established

Re: ARSList traction vs Communities...

2016-06-14 Thread Rick Westbrock
es. But this is a 30 day old post from Communities and it has a total of 211 referrals during these 30 days. I got one personal email regarding this out of ARSList and no public response. On communities we have 44 comments, but I note that 95% of these were made by the usual suspects (LJ Longwin

Re: Upgrade ITSM from 7.6.04 SP3 to 9.0.01

2016-01-21 Thread Rick Westbrock
I think that there is additional value to using this method as it is a chance to evaluate every single existing customization to determine whether or not it needs to be copied to the new server. In some cases there may be new OOB functionality that is similar enough that specific customizations

Re: Incident close on create - assignee

2016-01-13 Thread Rick Westbrock
How about invoking an incident template where you can set the Assignee to the dummy user? -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chris Jones Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 11:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Incident

Re: AR System Email Mailbox Configuration

2015-12-10 Thread Rick Westbrock
Did you check for active links firing on window open for that form? I remember way back in maybe version 5 that I wrote active links to test the client type and if web then it would switch to a different view (since Standard views didn't render properly in a browser back then). You may want to

Re: Table Field Grabber

2015-11-12 Thread Rick Westbrock
I totally agree, BMC should have provided this OOB a long time ago. Watch the video again to see how to get it Jason. :p -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 2:54 PM To:

Re: Best and most recent well behaved ARServer version for upgrade

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Westbrock
version for upgrade ** I know V9.0 PATCH 2 was released last week...which is different than SP2it would be 9.0.00 Patch 2.not 9.0.02 On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Rick Westbrock <rwestbr...@24hourfit.com<mailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com>> wrote: ** v9 SP2 was released

Re: Best and most recent well behaved ARServer version for upgrade

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Westbrock
v9 SP2 was released in the last week or so as well but I haven’t heard any feedback about it yet. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:06 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: How does one track down a missing or broken DB table (ARERR 481)?

2015-09-25 Thread Rick Westbrock
riping down server-side logs to a specific user prior to it being available in 9.0). Jason On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:14 AM Rick Westbrock <rwestbr...@24hourfit.com<mailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com>> wrote: ** I made the rookie mistake of not including my ARS version 7.1 in my initia

How does one track down a missing or broken DB table (ARERR 481)?

2015-09-24 Thread Rick Westbrock
tup? All of our apps work fine including the forms that I fixed but I'm still getting the error. When I first looked at this I did find a problem with a row in the arschema table but that was resolved. -Rick _____ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 H

Re: How does one track down a missing or broken DB table (ARERR 481)?

2015-09-24 Thread Rick Westbrock
8:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How does one track down a missing or broken DB table (ARERR 481)? ** Rick, I recommend this article :) https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars81/Running+the+database+consistency+checker On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Rick Westbrock <rwes

Re: Prevent User from using Client Tool

2015-09-23 Thread Rick Westbrock
Good point, IT Security might also be interested in people installing software that isn’t approved by the company. -Rick (the other one) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 3:33 PM To:

Re: ITSM 8 - Requested record is locked

2015-09-22 Thread Rick Westbrock
I notice that part of the solution is changing the setting of Submitter Mode Locked. That is not a trivial change to make to your configuration. BMC is suggesting that you change from Submitter Mode Changeable to Locked which can affect custom workflow that might happen to change the value of

Re: Message at login page?

2015-09-21 Thread Rick Westbrock
>From what I recall the application server is not involved in the MT login page >(or logout page either) so you would have to modify login.jsp in some way to >accomplish that. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brittain, Mark

Re: Pre install settings for MAPI not selected

2015-06-02 Thread Rick Westbrock
My experience in the past is that it did require the full Outlook client, Express is not supported. You can check the compatibility matrix to find out for sure. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Walunjkar, Parshuram Sent:

Re: List

2015-05-26 Thread Rick Westbrock
Does the new server have all the groups defined in the Group form with the same group ID numbers? I think if there were missing ID numbers then the Group List would show the ID number instead of converting it to the name though. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Remedy 9

2015-05-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
enhancements they added are there any notable updates? They are marketing Remedy 9 with SmartIT, but frankly all I see is SmartIT and no Remedy. Jeff From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 3:14 PM

Re: Remedy 9

2015-05-19 Thread Rick Westbrock
SmartIT is just a GUI front-end for ITSM, it was introduced before Remedy v9 was released. Consider SmartIT an alternative interface to ITSM as compared to the standard mid-tier interface if you will. I believe a new version of SmartIT was released along with the latest release of ITSM 9 but I

Re: How can I control Change Status transitions in Change (ITSM 7.0.3)?

2015-05-06 Thread Rick Westbrock
. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Thanks Raj and Rick, I did think of that but there are so many intermediate status values that we don’t use there would be a lot of inefficient clicking of the “Next” button

Re: How can I control Change Status transitions in Change (ITSM 7.0.3)?

2015-05-05 Thread Rick Westbrock
can be to disable status filed and only process bar flow change should be allowed. -Raj From: Rick Westbrock-5 [via ARS (Action Request System)] [mailto:ml-node+[hidden email]/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=121688i=0] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 04:36 To: Hiremath, Raj Subject: How can I

How can I control Change Status transitions in Change (ITSM 7.0.3)?

2015-05-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
of tech review approvals, then pause again later for the business approvals when it reaches Scheduled for Approval. Regards, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc

Re: Setting 'InstanceId' on AST:* submit?

2015-04-01 Thread Rick Westbrock
I am by no means an expert but I built some receiving workflow for our warehouse team using a custom shipping/receiving form. When they receive a CI via this form I have a filter set $PROCESS$ Application-Generate-GUID into a field on the custom form, then a later action in the same filter

Naked ARS (was: The ~! for filter names)

2015-03-06 Thread Rick Westbrock
I really liked seeing your request Ray, I am totally behind it. Call me old-fashioned but Remedy will always be a great IDE for building a strong workflow engine. BMC just happens to sell a packaged application that runs on the platform. Hell, I didn't even know that you couldn't just buy ARS

Re: The ~! for filter names

2015-03-03 Thread Rick Westbrock
Harsh- You would still have the option of using that naming convention to indicate the phasing but I think it makes more sense to make it a property of the filter rather than relying on the filter name to trigger the phasing. There’s no reason we can’t set the phasing in a filter property and

Re: Can't get to the arslist

2015-02-26 Thread Rick Westbrock
Huh, arslist.org is giving me connection resets also. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Julia James Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:33 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Can't get to the arslist ** Hi, I try to go to this URL

Re: Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting?

2015-02-24 Thread Rick Westbrock
@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:16 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting? Thanks Lee. I neglected to ask in my initial query what people might want to see on the agenda other than general

Re: Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting?

2015-02-23 Thread Rick Westbrock
, I am interested. Jason On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** It has been many years since I met other local Remedy developers (besides Jason Miller), is there any interest out there in an SDRUG meeting? I will have

Re: Win 2008 Update Broke Mid-Tier

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
Scott, assuming that you are using IIS you might want to check the security settings there. I have seen in the past that in a version upgrade Microsoft will suddenly lock down things for “security reasons” which might be blocking access. I can’t tell you exactly what to look for but if the

Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting?

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
to volunteer to host. If there is enough interest maybe we can get back to quarterly (or maybe semiannual) meetings to keep in touch. Cheers, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. [email_sig

Re: Remedy Upgrade - Suggestions required.

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
Karthick- I know that others share my opinion that when you are jumping ahead multiple big versions like this it is probably better to stand up a fresh 8.1.02 environment and migrate relevant data from the old system to the new. That is my plan when I get a chance to work on upgrading our 7.1

Re: Remedy Admin/Developer Position

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
I apologize in advance for being insensitive but it’s Friday as I read the message below and my mind immediately thought about riding around on a large piece of farm equipment in a corn field when I read “crop to crop”. I guess I am already punchy from a long week. From: Action Request System

Re: Remedy Upgrade - Suggestions required.

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
the build and migrate plan, not an upgrade in place. There are some bugs in the 8.1.02 installers, too, as I am finding. All the more reason to do it in a simpler environment. Rick Cook On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote

Re: Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting?

2015-02-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
Chowdhury Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 8:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Any interest in a San Diego RUG meeting? ** Well, the temp in NY today was 1... I'm down for a San Diego RUG. Just say when! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr

Re: USER_CACHE Problems

2015-02-16 Thread Rick Westbrock
This is a great example of why I always create unique custom error messages and store them in a form so that I can easily reference them. One of my pet peeves is re-using message numbers (especially the default value) for multiple unrelated functions. -Rick From: Action Request System

Re: DB Copy Issue

2015-02-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
Check out the Remedy Restore Tool by Carl Wilson (http://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-7710https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-7710 ), it handles nearly all the deprodification steps required when copying a production database to a non-prod environment. I normally adjust the licenses manually

Re: DB Copy Issue

2015-02-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
by Remedy Restore Tool. It is oriented primarily at ITSM and ARS core forms only. Thanks Davin On Feb 11, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Check out the Remedy Restore Tool by Carl Wilson (http://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC

Re: OT: Setting up a demo environment on LINUX..

2015-02-09 Thread Rick Westbrock
That's great Misi, I will be doing my first installation of ARS on Linux in the near future so this will be a big help. All my previous installations have been on Windows. -Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: Error after login to DevStudio RESOLVED

2015-02-05 Thread Rick Westbrock
Sandra- To prevent that problem during future Java upgrades what I've done in the past is create a symlink or shortcut named java that points to the current java install folder. When installing something like Dev Studio point it to the shortcut for Java. Later if you upgrade Java to a new

Re: Friday Humor Overlays

2014-12-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
My first thought was of my wife's Odyssey system that is sitting in our garage. I actually hooked it up to an old CRT television a few years ago just to dink around with it. It was an authentic recreation as the TV was about a 12 screen or so. -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: Filters actions are firing wierd or correctly ..

2014-12-03 Thread Rick Westbrock
They changed the business time process again in 7.5? I remember having to modify workflow to account for a business time change when upgrading from 4.x to 5.1.2 way back when. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jason Miller

Re: ITSM 7 Defs Running on ARS 7.6

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Westbrock
I would check on ARS/ITSM compatibilities, I have heard of a customer who was on ARS 7.1 and ITSM 7.0.03 and could not upgrade ARS to 7.5 because their current version of ITSM would not work with that version of ARS. I heard about this years after the fact so I don’t know if any testing was

Re: What was the most recent ARS app you built?

2014-11-19 Thread Rick Westbrock
I didn't build but extended with several new functions a shipping/receiving module for our warehouse that handles IT equipment. It ties into the CMDB so items received from a supplier get a new CI record created and shipping a CI to a person will create the relationship records (or update AIQ

Re: AR license user license needed for Smart-IT

2014-11-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
My understanding is that there wasn't a separate license required for SmartIT, it just uses the underlying ARS/ITSM licenses. I see SmartIT as just an alternative Mid-Tier in that respect (no separate user license required for MT vice user tool). I have no idea why changing the user from float

Re: What was the first ARS app you built?

2014-11-12 Thread Rick Westbrock
I built an asset tracking module for the Expense Management department because they were tracking cell phones and pagers (yes, it was that long ago) in spreadsheets. I built in all kinds of logic to remind them when a contract or warranty date was coming up etc. This was back when only the IT

Re: how fast could that be?

2014-11-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
Good points Claire, I was surprised at how many internal inconsistencies I found when I started diving into the ITSM code. Just yesterday I was setting up an ETL to get data into our data warehouse and we failed on one field, it turns out that the developer had set the database name of the

Re: Demo Login Name has been Changed

2014-11-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
Two other reasons to not use an individual’s login: 1. When the person leaves the company or transfers to another department/division their account either be locked or permissions changes which would break your install. 2. Security audits. In many cases if someone has left the

Re: Outgoing Email

2014-10-29 Thread Rick Westbrock
Has anyone looked at the Exchange server log yet? That should show the authentication failure as well. I don't know if that will give you more information as I've never looked at an Exchange server log myself but the files you included don't provide any info on why authentication failed. Does

Set Field If syntax when matching on another form

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
_ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

ARInside not showing DB or TR field prefixes

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
I love the new interface in 3.1.1, great usability improvements John. One thing that I noticed which I think has been there all along is that if a filter qualification used the TR or DB prefix on a field name that is not represented in the documentation. ARInside shows: 'EMPL_STATUS_yang' !=

Re: Set Field If syntax when matching on another form

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
...and I agree with you that it 'should be' the other way. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Hi all- I wanted to get feedback on something I remember learning way back in a Remedy class (pre-BMC) in Pleasanton

Re: ARInside not showing DB or TR field prefixes

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
Subject: Re: ARInside not showing DB or TR field prefixes ** Hi Rick, There's a newer version 3.1.2 where he fixed that bug. Thad On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** I love the new interface in 3.1.1, great usability

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
Wow, you subjected yourselves to that travesty of a ride? Did you lose a bet? Your brains will be addled for days... Thanks for all the great commentary this week Doug, it was very interesting reading for those like myself who couldn't make it out this year. -Rick -Original Message-

Re: Set Field If syntax when matching on another form

2014-10-17 Thread Rick Westbrock
the Performance Tuning tips to this day. I still offset escalation interval times to make sure they’re not a factor of 60. I still use = to give an index a starting point, etc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent

Re: NOT SOLVED: PERFORM-ACTION-OPEN-URL to open internal network site

2014-10-13 Thread Rick Westbrock
I didn’t notice that, do you think the space may need to be URL-encoded into %20? Personally I still think it’s the browser security but this is one other trick to try, you’d have to add an extra action before the run process to do the replacement but if that works then you would need to write

Re: NOT SOLVED: PERFORM-ACTION-OPEN-URL to open internal network site

2014-10-10 Thread Rick Westbrock
When trying to call cmd.exe you might be running into a security problem in the browser. Modern browsers really don’t like to allow execution of outside programs directly from a link because that’s an easy way to run malware etc. This could be true for calling the file:// prefix as well since

Re: Introducing Remedy with Smart IT (and one of those opportunities for remote interaction with Engage)

2014-10-08 Thread Rick Westbrock
I believe Tim is correct but the names that BMC chose may be causing confusion. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but Smart IT is the new interface released for agents working Incidents and Work Orders (focused on Tier 1 roles for now if I am not mistaken) and is included in the ITSM suite

Re: Engage and the ARSlist

2014-10-07 Thread Rick Westbrock
I was mildly amused when I clicked the link and the banner below the idle video player is still the old blue bmcsoftware logo. ;) -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Hynes, Douglas Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:31 AM To:

Re: BMC:Engage and the ARSlist

2014-10-07 Thread Rick Westbrock
I’m actually happy to see that even the big guys miss some of the smaller details once in a while. ☺ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tami Palacky Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 1:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Hude Login ID Conversion

2014-09-29 Thread Rick Westbrock
This utility for finding strings anywhere in the database might help you show how difficult that task would be: Simple Utility for finding strings in database: https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-33105 It won’t change the data for you but if you enter run it twice (once for a login ID and

Re: Resolved Tickets

2014-09-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
better to go with the RRR tool rrrSelectionChange https://rrr.se/cgi/tools/main?tool=rrrSelectionChange Jason On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Is that a customized version of the ITSM Incident form or is a completely

Has anyone installed 8.1.02 yet?

2014-09-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
of installing software that is only two weeks old as of now (although it will be 2-3 weeks before I actually get to start the installation process). Thanks, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc

Re: Resolved Tickets

2014-09-12 Thread Rick Westbrock
Is that a customized version of the ITSM Incident form or is a completely custom form? If the latter then as a long-term solution I would suggest that you get buy-in to add Resolved as a value in the Status menu and build workflow as mentioned before to auto-close Resolved tickets after an

Re: Resolved Tickets

2014-09-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
I believe that you must open a new ticket and related it to the closed ticket. That helps build a history and provides impetus to possibly create a Problem record. I assume that you plan on re-opening the ticket by exporting to an ARX file, massaging the data and importing back into the system

RESOLVED: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-09-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
/,/+OK/' $ETC_DIR/output.txt | awk '{print $2}' -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 2:39 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux

Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-09-05 Thread Rick Westbrock
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: 02 September 2014 20:00 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors ** With a suggestion from Laurent on BMC Communities I realized that I should have

Re: ARInside 3.1.1 released

2014-09-02 Thread Rick Westbrock
I will second that, this is an extremely useful tool for me and I really appreciate your efforts to keep it alive and kicking. -Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Monday,

Re: ARInside 3.1.1 released

2014-09-02 Thread Rick Westbrock
Based on this line from the release notes it sounds like it should probably work fine on 6.3. Kudos to John for writing a bug fix for an ancient version of ARS. :) D - fixed a crash while running ARInside on a 5.x server (#133) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-09-02 Thread Rick Westbrock
the same thing I have listed in reverse (I do that also) Change the Count to find out if there have been any inbound in the last x minutes and if not then send an email Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent

E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-08-28 Thread Rick Westbrock
not an optimal solution. Apparently I forgot to check it yesterday, hence the 24 hour backup of messages. Thanks in advance, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc

Re: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages (Linux) but not logging errors

2014-08-28 Thread Rick Westbrock
customers usually notice within an hour or two. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: E-mail engine not getting POP3 messages

Re: Wrong escalation execution time

2014-08-20 Thread Rick Westbrock
I thought undeclared escalations went into pool 1 by default as well. That being said I would agree that if you are going to the trouble to create separate pools it would be worth the effort IMO to analyze all your escalations and parse them out into separate pools based on scheduled execution

Re: Changing servers

2014-08-13 Thread Rick Westbrock
You might also want to check out the nifty Remedy Restore Tool written by Carl Wilson at the URL below. It can identify a lot of places you might have to make data changes and you can configure it to actually make the changes for you as well. I found the tool very helpful when restoring our

Re: OT: Contract vs FTE

2014-08-07 Thread Rick Westbrock
Ray- Personally I was FTE for 11 years and then did just over a year on a DoD contract. I found that the contractor's life is not for me, at least not government contracts. I never did any private sector contracting so it may be different in that environment. Personally I prefer the stability

Re: Impact of renaming Sites in ITSM 7.6.04..

2014-08-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
Joe- Could you run the Data Wizard for Site Name to get a count of records? I think that should give you a good list of the forms affected. -Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 10:30 AM

Re: Impact of renaming Sites in ITSM 7.6.04..

2014-08-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
.. ** I didn't think of the Data Wizard. Let me give that a shot if I really need to do what I think I may have to. Thanks for your response.. Joe From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent

OT: Long-term outlook for the ARS platform (was ENGAGE)

2014-07-30 Thread Rick Westbrock
I believe that SNOW does have an advanced development package (for extra cost of course) that I think allows you to build custom workflow for your environment. I changed the subject line since I want to go on a bit of tangent. Let me play devil's advocate for a moment and hopefully not generate

How is Asset Lifecycle used for AST:BulkInventory records?

2014-07-23 Thread Rick Westbrock
to suss out this information but thought that there might be a few experts in the audience who might have some valuable information to share. Thanks, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc

Re: Drag drop attachments not working in ARS 7.1 WUT

2014-07-16 Thread Rick Westbrock
files but can't figure out the workaround. -Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:21 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Drag drop attachments not working

Re: Drag drop attachments not working in ARS 7.1 WUT

2014-07-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
can't DnD directly. You have to drag the file to the Desktop, then from the Desktop to the attachment field. It's a Windows issue. Rick On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Hi all- I have a few users (myself

Re: Drag drop attachments not working in ARS 7.1 WUT

2014-07-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
that help a Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Rick Westbrock rwestbr...@24hourfit.commailto:rwestbr...@24hourfit.com wrote: ** Hi all- I have a few users (myself included) who cannot drag files onto an attachment pool in the 7.1 WUT (fat client). We can right-click to attach files

Re: Drag drop attachments not working in ARS 7.1 WUT

2014-07-15 Thread Rick Westbrock
7.6 User Tool (which I believe is 7.06.04.05) on your win7 64bit machine? Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Westbrock Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 9:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Drag

Drag drop attachments not working in ARS 7.1 WUT

2014-07-14 Thread Rick Westbrock
have already hit the BMC KB and couldn't find anything about it. Thanks, Rick _ Rick Westbrock AppOps Engineer | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives

Re: How can I capture the instance ID of a newly created asset?

2014-07-11 Thread Rick Westbrock
Thanks Ben, I figured that out about an hour after posting and spent a while testing it. Looks like that is my solution, I just need to do some tweaks here and there to get the right BMC workflow to trigger for me. Thanks, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator

How can I capture the instance ID of a newly created asset?

2014-07-10 Thread Rick Westbrock
in that scenario. Thanks in advance, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers

Re: Finding all filters and Escalations that contain a web service set fields

2014-06-13 Thread Rick Westbrock
The oddly placed line breaks in a DEF file can also wreak havoc with global find/replace operations (as I have found out the hard way). _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

Re: Filter Escalation

2014-06-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
it should read Escalation executes the If Actions on each matching record which might make it easier to understand the difference. You could even say that it fires the If Actions so as to not use the word escalation at all in that context. -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy

Can you have multiple bulk inventory CI records for a single product?

2014-05-28 Thread Rick Westbrock
into this problem before? Do I not understand how the AST:InventoryQuantity records are supposed to work? I am going to try manually creating the missing records on the dev server to see if I can get the older CI records working. -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator

Re: Can you have multiple bulk inventory CI records for a single product?

2014-05-28 Thread Rick Westbrock
_ 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 Rick Westbrock Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:05 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Can you have

Re: ITSM 8.1 SP1 - Content missing ?

2014-05-22 Thread Rick Westbrock
or credit to do a big project but the equity can come in to provide those funds. -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 John Sundberg

Copying a decimal field into a currency field

2014-05-19 Thread Rick Westbrock
into the AST forms. -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers

Re: Copying a decimal field into a currency field

2014-05-19 Thread Rick Westbrock
be missing something, below is the update statement that I used. UPDATE T1545 SET C536870961V = C26061, C536870961C = 'USD', C536870961D = C6, C536870961USD = C26061 WHERE C1 = '0044210' Thanks in advance, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator

Re: What is the best possible way to build Asset - People relationship?

2014-05-10 Thread Rick Westbrock
in the same manner as when creating an Incident and then selecting the CI row in a table on a custom display-only form. If you are looking to create single relationships I can provide more detail. -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness

Re: Self-Terminating/disabling Escalation

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Westbrock
I think that was in place as of version 7.6.04 since I remember right-clicking to run an escalation last year (but maybe my memory is faulty, I don’t have a 7.6.04 system to reference now). -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA

Re: Self-Terminating/disabling Escalation

2014-05-01 Thread Rick Westbrock
I don't know of a way to do that. When I need to have an escalation run only once I will either set it for an interval of 99 days (if I want it to run immediately) or for a specific day of the month and time. In either case you must go back and disable the escalation but that will give you 99

Re: Remedy Support Team Hierarchy

2014-04-24 Thread Rick Westbrock
I can interact with my (internal) customers more directly. -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 Jason Miller Sent: Wednesday

Re: Remedy Support Team Hierarchy

2014-04-23 Thread Rick Westbrock
instant clarification on a request rather than going back and forth using the BSA as the messenger. -Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList

How can I increase user adoption?

2014-03-26 Thread Rick Westbrock
). https://communities.bmc.com/message/414397 Thanks, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives

Re: How can I increase user adoption?

2014-03-26 Thread Rick Westbrock
types work in the SDLC tool and don't like having to jump over to Remedy for some tasks. Thanks all, Rick _ Rick Westbrock Remedy Administrator | IT Department 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: blue frame on image

2014-03-10 Thread Rick Westbrock
Marcelo- I think if you can show source code in your browser and snip out the section that is displaying the image in question that someone on the list would better be able to help you figure out a solution. There has to be some sort of formatting applied that is causing the blue border (it

Re: configure load balancer between Web servers and application servers

2014-03-02 Thread Rick Westbrock
My guess is that he wants the load balancer to send each new request to the app server with the fewest currently open connections. -Rick On Feb 27, 2014 7:28 AM, Jim Coryat (jcoryat) jcor...@micron.com wrote: ** Mahmoud, I am not following what you are after. In our environment we have

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