Atrium 7.6.04 SP5 Upgrade Issues

2014-04-09 Thread Simon Ellis
Since we upgraded our 7.6.04 SP4 environment to SP5 for ARS and Atrium to fix a memory leak within our CMDB we've noticed that for our ADDM dataset populated with a sync from ADDM the number of CI's normalised and reconciled has gone through the roof against what is actually coming through from

Re: ADDM Synch to CMDB

2014-04-08 Thread Simon Ellis
Transfer -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:51 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ADDM Synch to CMDB I do, but don't really know what I'm looking for. or more

ADDM Synch to CMDB

2014-04-07 Thread Simon Ellis
Does anyone know if there is a way to query ADDM to find out if in any given period what it pushed through into the CMDB. I have the numbers from the recon job when that has run against the ADDM dataset, just would like to know if it matches what ADDM pushed through into the ADDM dataset.

Re: ADDM Synch to CMDB

2014-04-07 Thread Simon Ellis
Subject: Re: ADDM Synch to CMDB Do you have access to addm? They have reports and logs you can look at to see exactly what was pushed. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to query ADDM to find out

Mid Tier Oddity

2014-02-20 Thread Simon Ellis
Either within our DEV environment which we have just upgraded to SP5, the mid tier running Version 7.6.04 SP5 201401161615 Hotfix and within our Production environment running SP4 with mid tier running Version 7.6.04 SP4 201312261406 Hotfix, when you open an Incident and go an expand any work

Re: Why does the ARS Service take so long to start?

2014-02-19 Thread Simon Ellis
In our server group configuration start up of each server takes about 8-9 minutes, but that's due to partly BMC delivering our solution with every language pack under the sun installed as well, which we don't use. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Why does the ARS Service take so long to start?

2014-02-19 Thread Simon Ellis
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: 19 February 2014 19:58 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Why does the ARS Service take so long to start? ** In our server group configuration start up of each server takes about 8-9 minutes, but that's due to partly BMC delivering

Custom Notifications

2014-02-10 Thread Simon Ellis
Haven't looked to far into this as yet, thought i'd ask if it was feasible before plodding into it Wondering if it was possible to setup a custom notification against normalization to tell me whether a job has actually run or not, rather than having to go and check each time. Normalization

Establish executable version

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Ellis
Under Unix/linux, is there a way i can find the version of the arserverd executable? Just wondering if there is some command line i can run to establish what version it is? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: Establish executable version

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Ellis
Of Simon Ellis Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:21 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Establish executable version Under Unix/linux, is there a way i can find the version of the arserverd executable? Just wondering if there is some command line i can run to establish what version

Re: Establish executable version

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Ellis
this is helpful. Larry On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: I thought there was a way of checking without having the AR up -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist

Development Question

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Ellis
Seemed to have stumped myself In a multi tenated solution i've created a new panel on the HPD:Help Desk form, added a panel holder and additional panels within that. The new panel is only visible to members of one company. The People records have the Company listed in the Access Restictions

Re: Development Question

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Ellis
your Dev and Test environments? Thad On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: Seemed to have stumped myself In a multi tenated solution i've created a new panel on the HPD:Help Desk form, added a panel holder and additional

Re: Upgrade from 7.6.4 to 8.1

2014-01-12 Thread Simon Ellis
Be interested to know what methodology you guys are using to perform your upgrades. Are you using a staging server or upgrading in situe… From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patchsk Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2014 7:22 p.m. To:

Re: Incident ID*+ field displaying phone number

2013-11-21 Thread Simon Ellis
it happen on all incidents? If so, I would resort to filter logs to find what happens when submitting a new incident - Karthik On Nov 21, 2013 7:49 AM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: Don't know what's happened here but on our DEV server, I go to create

Re: 7.6.04 Form Permissions Question

2013-10-17 Thread Simon Ellis
, but if it isn't showing up, your form must be in a deployable application, which means you need to create a Role, and map that role to your regular group. On Oct 13, 2013 7:59 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: ** That would work better, but how do you

7.6.04 Form Permissions Question

2013-10-13 Thread Simon Ellis
I've created a new Panel on a form in which everyone currently has access to that form. I want the new panel to only be accesible to a particular set of individuals. I've tried creating a new dynamic group which then becomes accessible in the permissions list on the form, but how do i

Re: 7.6.04 Form Permissions Question

2013-10-13 Thread Simon Ellis
has access to the panel On Oct 13, 2013 7:42 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: I've created a new Panel on a form in which everyone currently has access to that form. I want the new panel to only be accesible to a particular set of individuals

Re: 7.6.04 Form Permissions Question

2013-10-13 Thread Simon Ellis
a regular form, it should just show up, but if it isn't showing up, your form must be in a deployable application, which means you need to create a Role, and map that role to your regular group. On Oct 13, 2013 7:59 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nzmailto:simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote

Fine-tuning or adjusting configuration parameters after installing CMDB or other AtriumCore applications

2013-10-03 Thread Simon Ellis
Currently in the process of carrying out the suggested activities in https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=contentid=KA370107 Have an issue when applying Plugin-ARDBC-Threads: 4 12 in the ar.conf. What i am observing is activities within the User Tool become un responsive when accessing

BMC Certified Professional: BMC Remedy IT Service Management 7.6.04 Practical Exam

2013-09-29 Thread Simon Ellis
Anyone done it yet? I'm currently studing for the assessment test as a precursor to taking the practical, wondering if anyone had any experiences to share? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org

Error during processing : ARERR [9241] Cannot create report directory

2013-06-18 Thread Simon Ellis
Have been performing an upgrade from an unpatched version of 7.6.04 to 7.6.04 SP4. Having updated the mid tiers servers we get the following error message when trying to run a report. Error during processing : ARERR [9241] Cannot create report directory

Re: AIE and Reconciliaiton job import issues

2013-06-10 Thread Simon Ellis
You'd be better off running the command line dataimport tool rather than through the Data Import graphical user tool... dataimporttool.exe -x serverName -u loginName -p loginPassword -o pathOfTheAIE_Configuration.arxFile -l logfiledestinationPath -Original Message- From: Action Request

Atrium Upgrade to SP4

2013-05-05 Thread Simon Ellis
Completed an upgrade of Atrium to SP4 last week and have gone to verify the aitrium integration engine and have noticed that post upgrade the file name path in all our mappings for any of our data exchanges has changed. For example pre upgrade the path to where the data file was located was

Re: Remedy - ARS 7.6.04 SP4 Install Fails

2013-04-28 Thread Simon Ellis
How are you connecting to the Oracle Database? We had an issue when trying to connect using the Oracle SID, when we changed it to connect via the Oracle Server Name we got the upgrade prompt screen... From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf

Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4

2013-04-04 Thread Simon Ellis
] On Behalf Of Hodgdon, Paul Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 6:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4 Also interested in this. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 1, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Simon Ellis simon.el...@telecom.co.nz wrote: Hi, We're currently starting to put

Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4

2013-04-04 Thread Simon Ellis
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 9:26 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4 We got delivered from BMC a 7.6.04 environment, we have AR patched to SP2

Re: An unexpected fork in the road...

2013-04-04 Thread Simon Ellis
All the very best to you... From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013 2:25 p.m. To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: An unexpected fork in the road... ** Hi All, I watched the movie Moneyball a

Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4

2013-04-04 Thread Simon Ellis
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 9:52 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4 No need to worry about anything in a server group? i.e. we don't need to remove anything from within a server group, just have them down

AR Patch Upgrade 7.6.04 Patch 4

2013-04-01 Thread Simon Ellis
Hi, We're currently starting to put together our first ever pacth upgrade, Upgrading 7.6.04 to Patch 4. Was wondering if anyone out there had process plan, not step by step of how to do, but more of things to consider, order of performance that they could share to give us a leg up on what to

Manage Knowledge Sources - Rebuild Index

2013-03-20 Thread Simon Ellis
In the Knowledge Management Console under Manage Knowledge Sources, trying to get a grasp of the purpose/benefit of performing ad-hoc re indexes. Have tried reading through the BMC Knowledge Manegement Admin Guide and it seems to cloud the waters for me. Anyone offer any insight into this

Re: FTS on Virtual Machines - 7.6.04

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Ellis
We implemented the attached recommendations from BMC for FTS in our Linux Server Group. Could barely get FTS to last more than a couple of weeks and now since implementing the recommendations it's been stable for 2 months. Simon From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

ADDM Synchronization causing AR Server memory leak

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Ellis
HI, Has anyone encountered a situation whereby the synchronization of data between ADDM and AR Admin server has caused the physical memory on the ar server to be chewed up? We are seeing between 6% 8% of physical memory on our ar server is being chewed up on a daily basis whilst the ADDM

Memory Leak Main Admin Server (Unix)

2013-01-29 Thread Simon Ellis
Has anyone experienced physical memory leaks on there main admin server in a server group configuration? We're running 7.6.04 on RedHat 5 with 4 ar servers. The three ar servers the users connect through via the mid tier show stable physical memory at between 40% 50%, yet our main admin

Data Management Tool 7.6.04

2013-01-28 Thread Simon Ellis
Have successfully used the data management tool to load data from the spreadsheets. Data contained within the spreadsheets for some notes fields had text seperated over several lines. When you use the tool, the text then appears on one line. Is there a way to re format the text imported back

Re: Data Management Tool 7.6.04

2013-01-28 Thread Simon Ellis
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Data Management Tool 7.6.04 Have successfully used the data management tool to load data from the spreadsheets. Data contained

Re: SNMP traps

2013-01-22 Thread Simon Ellis
We're monitoring... arsServerStat-API-Requests arsServerStat-CPU arsServerStat-Since-Start arsServiceType arsServerStat-Current-Users aesState -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of S Test Sent: Wednesday, 23

Re: Anyone on the list ever tried the TC Malloc fix for ARS (Applies to Linux ARS Servers Only)?

2013-01-13 Thread Simon Ellis
We implemented this back in October within our redhat environment. It does work. However we are still experiencing memory issues when any system process crashes and armonitor recovers. A couple of times when the recon process crashed with a signal 11, the memory manager cannot handle it and

Re: Monitoring

2012-12-06 Thread Simon Ellis
The list can be endless... we utilise, Spectrum, Splunk, MEAM (Managed Engine Application Management) as well as a number of other tools for monitoring the OS and the database. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: ***Error: Number of tokens exceed the number of columns***

2012-12-03 Thread Simon Ellis
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 6:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ***Error: Number of tokens exceed the number of columns*** I am trying to run an AIE CI Class Mapping Data Exchange in a Linux

***Error: Number of tokens exceed the number of columns***

2012-12-02 Thread Simon Ellis
I am trying to run an AIE CI Class Mapping Data Exchange in a Linux environment into the Monitor and ComputerSystem class (2 different loads). Every other record is skipped in the data exchange when I populate site information into my csv. With the debugging enabled and apon examiniation i see

Output armonitor.log to syslog

2012-11-08 Thread Simon Ellis
Just taken onboard Splunk to read syslog messages sent from all servers. Wonderfully we pick up messages sent to arerror.log which we can alert against, but am wishing to also monitor the armonitor.log. Has anyone been able to send the output of armonitor.log to syslog in a Linux environment?

Re: Output armonitor.log to syslog

2012-11-08 Thread Simon Ellis
developer/admin. Good luck! Matt -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 1:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Output armonitor.log to syslog Just taken onboard

Re: ARERR 300 Malloc failed on server

2012-10-24 Thread Simon Ellis
What O/S are you running on? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David M. Clark Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 9:43 a.m. To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARERR 300 Malloc failed on server We are

Bulk Load CI Relationships

2012-10-24 Thread Simon Ellis
Is it possible with the tool to bulk load the relationship of a CI to a Contract? I can bulk load through the Transactional-Contract.xls spreadsheet via the Data Load Console the relationship between a contract and a Master Contract. But I would like to be able to bulk load via any means the

Re: ARERR 300 Malloc failed on server

2012-10-24 Thread Simon Ellis
. Thanks guys, Ken. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:52 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ARERR 300 Malloc failed on server What O/S are you running

Re: Bulk Load CI Relationships

2012-10-24 Thread Simon Ellis
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Bulk Load CI Relationships Is it possible with the tool to bulk load the relationship of a CI to a Contract? I can bulk load through

7.6.04 Knowledge Management Search results

2012-09-25 Thread Simon Ellis
Hi, got a customer request whereby when they perform a Knowledge Search within Knowledge Management they wish to exclude from the returned results all articles that are retired. Not sure where to start looking, certainly can't find anything in the advanced search criteria they could set

Re: 7.6.04 Knowledge Management Search results

2012-09-25 Thread Simon Ellis
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Simon Ellis Sent: 25 September 2012 21:55 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: 7.6.04 Knowledge Management Search results Hi, got a customer request whereby when they perform a Knowledge Search within Knowledge Management they wish

AIE Instances

2012-05-21 Thread Simon Ellis
When managing data exchanges within the aie console is there any issue having multiply exchanges running under seperate instances? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12

Mass Asset Updates

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Ellis
Got a whole heap of CMDB updates to perform - around 1500, numerous fields... Is there a way to either through the data import tool or through aie to just update the fields being changed without having to export the CI's amend the data and re import everything? Regards Simon

CMDB Mass Updates

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Ellis
Got a whole heap of CMDB updates to perform – around 1500, numerous fields… Is there a way to either through the data import tool or through aie to just update the fields being changed without having to export the CI’s amend the data and re import everything? Regards Simon