Re: OT: ServiceNow

2013-11-22 Thread Ron Legters
I think the Remedy folks on the list would say it’s the other way round. :-) To answer the question though - http://community.servicenow.com/ My experience is that it’s not as lively or responsive as the ARS List, but it’s as close as SNOW gets. Thanks, Ron Legters System Administrator Univar

Re: Weird SQL issue - column missing from T table

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Legters
tried to query this other table for it. I solved this by creating a second menu that doesn't use this value, and attached it to the character field, and then attaching the first menu with a change fields action after the qualifier field gets populated. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process

Weird SQL issue - column missing from T table

2010-10-25 Thread Ron Legters
you, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Administrator UNIVAR Business Information Services 17425 NE Union Hill Road Redmond, WA 98052 USA +1 425 889 3952 Work ron.legt...@univar.commailto:ron.legt...@univar.com

Re: Weird SQL issue - column missing from T table

2010-10-25 Thread Ron Legters
Bingo! I would swear this worked on Friday, though. Well, back to the drawing board. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Roger Medsker Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 2:26 PM To: arslist

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Legters
is null (or blank?) it doesn't find a matching CRQ, and it opens a Change Request window with no data. Thank you very much for your time. :-) Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe Martin

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Legters
that's a button field, it doesn't have any data. It's working now. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject

Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Legters
I missing here? ARS 7.0.1 ITSM 7.2 Windows Server 2003 SQL 2005 Thank you, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Administrator UNIVAR Business Information Services 17425 NE Union Hill Road Redmond, WA 98052 USA +1 425 889 3952 Work ron.legt...@univar.commailto:ron.legt...@univar.com

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Legters
action to the button AL to see why the CRQ wasn't opening, and the message tells me that 'Originating CRQ' is empty. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Brien Dieterle Sent: Tuesday

Re: Incident Management Remedy_Login_ID

2010-09-24 Thread Ron Legters
recall which one that is. I'm pretty sure it's either 'Contact Organization Admin', 'Contact People Admin', or 'Contact Support Admin'. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Polo Sent: Friday

Risk Calculation in ITSM Change Management 7.0

2010-09-24 Thread Ron Legters
to be working this way. Am I going about this the wrong way? It occurred to me that it might be easier to just change the labels for 2 and 4 Minor and Medium (or something) and just let it go. Ron Legters ITIL Tools and Process Administrator UNIVAR Business Information Services 17425 NE Union Hill Road

Re: Incident Management Remedy_Login_ID

2010-09-24 Thread Ron Legters
So what I did is create a People record with the login ID of 'AR_ESCALATOR' and gave it the three Contact permissions. There may be a better way, but this worked for me. Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl

Re: Email Template Create - Order of events

2010-06-23 Thread Ron Legters
...and it does it in two passes. That is, if your email engine fires every 5 minutes, it will pull the message into the messages form in the first pass, then 5 minutes later it will create the ticket. (at least, this is what happens on my system) Thanks, Ron Legters ITIL Tools Process Admin

Re: Escalation Oddity (or email oddity?)

2010-03-30 Thread Ron Legters
a floating license and some application permissions. This didn't have anything to do with notifications, but it may be an avenue to explore for your problem. Thanks, Ron Legters Remedy Administrator Production and Quality Control Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax

How-to questions - Request or Restoration?

2009-06-26 Thread Ron Legters
we're the only shop that gets calls from users asking for help when nothing's broken. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator  Production and Quality Control Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: NWRUG Meeting April 27th

2009-04-15 Thread Ron Legters
Rick - Count me in. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Production and Quality Control Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, April 09

Recall: NWRUG Meeting April 27th

2009-04-15 Thread Ron Legters
Ron Legters would like to recall the message, NWRUG Meeting April 27th. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: Where the Answers Are

Bug Tracking and ITSM suite

2009-04-01 Thread Ron Legters
don't think we want to do that'. I don't know where in the ITSM Suite to point her, though for a better bug tracking tool. Could we use 'Known Errors' in Problem Management as a sort of Bug Tracker? What are other shops doing? We're currently on ITSM 7. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator

Canned reports for ITSM 7

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Legters
could go on, but let me just ask: Are many of you using these reports; have you modified the canned ones to make them more useful, or have you just created your own? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Production and Quality Control Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax

Re: ITSM 7 Work Info

2009-01-23 Thread Ron Legters
Shawn - The Work Info is searchable, just not directly from Incident form. In the left nav bar, under 'Advanced Functions', there's a link - 'Advanced Search'. One of the options here is 'Search Incidents by Work Info'. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Production and Quality Control

Re: ITSM Incident Management

2008-11-26 Thread Ron Legters
Except I'm not sure Ben has answered your question. He's given you the 'Status' values for Help Desk, and you asked for 'Status Reasons' when the 'Status' is Resolved. The answer is there aren't any. In version 6, the only status that had 'reasons' was 'Pending', and the field that holds those

Re: SW00247290 - Death of the Plugin Server

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Legters
I was having a similar problem with the Plug-in server. On a service restart, it would start, then die, then restart. Not quite what you're experiencing, but I thought my experience might shed some light. BMC Support said there were some know issues with ARPlugin that were fixed in AR server

Optional Categorization for Incident Management 7

2008-09-29 Thread Ron Legters
no categorization. This makes for very bad reporting. I had assumed the OTB workflow would cause these to be required at some point, but I'm discovering that's not the case. So, I'm curious - how have other folks dealt with this issue? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems

Re: Temporary License generator problem?

2008-09-17 Thread Ron Legters
I'm probably too late to this conversation, since you've probably gotten your keys by now, but as an FYI for future reference: If you're not getting the emails for trial licenses, you can click on the 'View Current Trial Licenses' tab on the Trial License Request page to get the keys. They show

Re: Ticket creation in 7.1 via email

2008-08-14 Thread Ron Legters
The creation form is called HPD:IncidentInterface_Create. Sadly, the fieldids don't exactly match the fieldids in HPD:Help Desk' so it takes a bit of research to figure out what to push where. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Empty Modify Window?

2008-07-16 Thread Ron Legters
. When I log into my machine as this user, I see the ticket just fine. I've had him re-install the User tool, but this hasn't helped. We're on Windows with SQL, AR System 7.0.1, Help Desk 6. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office

Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Legters
ID's aren't the same in 6 vs. 7. I'm hoping someone has already worked through this, so I don't have to start from scratch. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Migrating HD 6 cases to Incident 7?

2008-03-28 Thread Ron Legters
? ** The biggest thing, Ron, is not to try to push directly into HPD:HelpDesk. Push into the Interface_create form, which already has filters in place to grab some of the arcane data elements needed from other forms. It'll save you a ton of work. Rick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ron Legters [EMAIL

Guest Access for Email submission in ARS 7.1

2008-03-11 Thread Ron Legters
. Generic has not had a password. Could this be the problem? Is 7.1 pickier about passwords than 7.0.1? Both systems are running HelpDesk 6.0 if that matters. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Site question for ITSM 7

2008-01-16 Thread Ron Legters
in different regions and site groups. I've got some thoughts about how to proceed, but I'd love to hear from someone else who may have dealt with this or something similar. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator  Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax

Re: Site question for ITSM 7

2008-01-16 Thread Ron Legters
you. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:42 p.m. To: ARSList Subject: Site question for ITSM 7 I've come across a stumbling block in configuring ITSM 7

Re: IncidentInterface_Create Question

2008-01-04 Thread Ron Legters
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IncidentInterface_Create Question ** Great! At least my confusion helped one person out today! Did you have to add the keyword CREATE to the .arm file as a value, or just the field itself? On 1/3/08, Ron Legters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The field 'z1D_Action

Re: IncidentInterface_Create Question

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Legters
The field 'z1D_Action' is referenced in the filter HPD:HII:CreateIncident_010_SetINCNumber`! so I added it to my template. After reading Roger's reply to your message, I'm not entirely certain I needed to, but it didn't work before I did, and it does now, so... Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Admin

Re: HELP - EMAIL Hosed

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Legters
Like several other posters so far, I would check the credentials on the Email Service log-in. I've had several occasions over the years where even though the password hadn't expired or changed, just re-entering it for the log-on as in the Service properties and re-starting the service got the

Re: Subadministration / Deleting records

2007-08-13 Thread Ron Legters
Just a thought, but if you're using ITSM a lot of views of a lot of the forms have many of the basic functions, like 'delete' and 'save', disabled. Have you explored this? Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: AR System 7.1.00 delayed until end of August / early September

2007-08-10 Thread Ron Legters
Russ - Not sure what your link looked like before you forwarded this to the list, but it appears to have gotten wrapped and broken. The last chunk should be 'externalID=1926' Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax

Strange ITSM 7 Behavior

2007-08-06 Thread Ron Legters
, (telling me it's complete when it's not, and saying so in French) or did I do something wrong? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Job Posting - Lead Remedy Developer

2007-07-27 Thread Ron Legters
...and if you know who made off with our carriage returns, we'd appreciate getting them back. ;-) Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com From: Action Request System

Re: Remedy User Tool gets an application error every time you close

2007-07-13 Thread Ron Legters
Now that I think of it, number 2 is how we fixed it, too. We just upgraded all of our users to V7 user tool, even though we weren't on V7 on the server yet. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Remedy User Tool gets an application error every time you close

2007-07-11 Thread Ron Legters
Is everyone getting this, or just some? I'm remembering this happening to all my users when we were on 6, and it was just a bug in the user tool. I would try a newer patch for the v6 user and see if it goes away. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin From: Action

Sandbox for ITSM 7?

2007-06-14 Thread Ron Legters
know about binaries that may get installed for ITSM 7 which might make going back and forth between 6 and 7 challenging. Your thoughts? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Inbound Email Problem

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Legters
...and I've also found that frequently when I make any kind of change to the email configuration, I have to go back into the service properties and retype the password for the account it's logging on as, even though it hasn't changed. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin

Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
. The platform is ARS 7.0.1 patch 001 on Windows with a SQL db. I'd appreciate your thoughts about where next to look for what's up with this. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
and LDAP You are going to have to work with the vendor on this one. Sounds like what my plugin server does when my ardbc plugin overwrites memory it doesn't own. Axton Grams On 5/17/07, Ron Legters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a View form with ARDBC LDAP to get user information from Active

Re: Problem with arplugin and LDAP

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Legters
and LDAP The Need to Sync timout on the External Authentication tab of the Server Settings. Setting that to 300 (seconds) worked for me. Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Thursday, May 17

Re: HTML Editor for Notifications

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Legters
I've been using Dreamweaver. I'm not very good with HTML, so I use Dreamweaver to get it looking the way I want, but then I still check the code in Notepad to be sure there's no extraneous junk. From what I hear, Front Page is probably a poor choice, as it's biased toward the way Internet Explorer

Re: 'Notify' action not notifying

2007-05-03 Thread Ron Legters
the ESS Concepts Guide tel +44 1494 468980 mobile +44 7710 377761 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.westoverconsulting.co.uk -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12

'Notify' action not notifying

2007-05-02 Thread Ron Legters
*/ End of filter processing (phase 1) /* Wed May 02 2007 15:39:51.8550 */ Restart of filter processing (phase 3) 0: Notify /* Wed May 02 2007 15:39:51.8550 */Stop filter processing Any clue as to what I'm missing? We're on ARS 7.0.1, patch 001 on Windows/MSSQL. Thanks, Ron

Re: When do Arsystem Email Messages get created?

2007-04-04 Thread Ron Legters
is that I can't tell exactly who the system was sending the message to, once I receive it. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. www.univarusa.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: E-mail Notification Troubleshooting

2007-04-02 Thread Ron Legters
Brad - The first thing I would do is open up the properties of the Remedy Email Engine service and re-type the password that whatever account your running it as uses to log on. I've noticed I sometimes need to do this after applying a patch or upgrading. The password doesn't change, and the

Re: Diary Field wierdness

2007-03-16 Thread Ron Legters
(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG From: Ian Trimnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The Open University Subject: Re: Diary Field wierdness In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Ron Legters wrote: ** Listers - I've got an issue here

Re: Diary Field wierdness

2007-03-16 Thread Ron Legters
08:27:43 -0700 Reply-To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG From: Ron Legters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Diary Field wierdness In-Reply-To: A[EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset

Diary Field wierdness

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Legters
there. It doesn't appear to stay in the new case once it's saved, though. I have one HD analyst who hasn't upgraded from 7.0.0 patch 2, and this isn't happening to him. Any ideas? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111

Server switch stumper

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Legters
machine, I also get the error. Where else can I look for what's causing this? Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Server switch stumper

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Legters
She didn't have 'Save Workspace' checked, but I checked the ar.ini file again, and sure enough, I'd missed some references to OldServer in there. Corrected these and the error went away. Thanks for your help, Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System

Re: TimeZone problem?

2007-02-27 Thread Ron Legters
list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 1:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: TimeZone problem? ** OK, this is probably an easy one, but I've looked everywhere I know: Why is the timestamp on objects on my servers showing in GMT

TimeZone problem?

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Legters
on the servers are OK. My Admin tool is 7.0.1 patch 001. Both servers are 6.3 patch 20. All systems are Windows, XP for the desktop and 2003 for the servers. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax www.univarusa.com

Re: Purging a server license in ARS 6/7

2007-02-08 Thread Ron Legters
I'm in the middle of a move myself, and ran into this same thing. It appears though, that I'm OK as long as I don't access both servers from the same machine at the same time. I've got both systems up right now, and I'm administering the current server through the admin tool on my desktop, and I'm

Re: Anyone run ITSM 5.5 against ARS 7.0.1?

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Legters
Kyle - Are you planning to upgrade from ITSM 5.5 directly to ITSM 7.X? Just asking because my experience with upgrading to ITSM 6.0 after upgrading to ARS 7.0 was not pretty. The CMBD didn't install correctly, and I got errors that wouldn't go away until I ripped everything out and started over,

Re: Helpdesk 6 Weird Notification

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Legters
the ones I've found) have 'Escalate to Manager after...' in the filter name. As I recall SLA generates these filters as SLAs are created, so yours may have different names, but maybe not since these are OTB. Hope this helps, Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Data Systems Services Univar

Re: Daylight savings time and Remedy system restarts

2007-01-05 Thread Ron Legters
Just because your computer clock is correct is no guarantee that times in Remedy will be right. Remember that ARS stores times as seconds since Midnight, 1/1/1970 GMT. Every time it displays a time, it calculates the difference between what's stored and the time zone it's displaying in, so if ARS

Any success with ardisabled?

2006-08-11 Thread Ron Legters
in the control record (ARERR 150) Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator Production Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at http://www.wwrug.org

Sharing ARS between countries

2006-08-09 Thread Ron Legters
, would DSO be an option? Can it share tickets between servers based on certain conditions, or does it pretty much just replicate one server to another? We're currently running ITSM 5.6 on ARS 6.0.1, but by the time Canada comes on board, we'll be on ITSM 6.0 (maybe 7.0) on ARS 7.0. Thanks, Ron

Re: Sharing ARS between countries

2006-08-09 Thread Ron Legters
languages. James McKenzie From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Legters Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:38 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Sharing ARS between countries ** My company's

Closing a window after save

2006-05-10 Thread Ron Legters
execute on 'Modify' vs. 'After Modify' so I'll dive into the manuals while y'all think about this. Thanks, Ron Legters Tools Administrator  Production Systems Services Univar USA Inc. 425.889.3952 Office 425.889.4111 Fax __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML

Re: SEVERE! Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available!

2006-05-05 Thread Ron Legters
I just had to re-install 6.0.1 on my dev machine, and it replaced the credentials with the local account, so I guess it's not fixed. This is not the error it gives when that happens, though. Thanks, Ron Tools Admin From: Action Request System discussion