Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-13 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Adding SYS:Action From: Garrison, Sean (Norcross) [mailto:sean.garri...@fiserv.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Server 'Alive' check Additional things to check: NTE:SYS NT Process Control - is the queue building up and not clearing

Re: Any successful upgrade experience from ITSM 7.0.03 patch 9 to ITSM 7.6.03?

2011-04-12 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ZHANG, ERIC L Sent: 07 April 2011 17:03 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Any successful upgrade experience from ITSM 7.0.03 patch 9 to ITSM 7.6.03? ** Hi, Listers! Has anyone successfully upgraded from ITSM 7.0.03 to ITSM 7.6.03? Can anyone shed

Any successful upgrade experience from ITSM 7.0.03 patch 9 to ITSM 7.6.03?

2011-04-07 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Hi, Listers! Has anyone successfully upgraded from ITSM 7.0.03 to ITSM 7.6.03? Can anyone shed some light on it? I also like to know if anyone encounters any issue in their post-upgraded ITSM 7.6.03 production environment. Is ITSM 7.6.03 stable? We have looked at 7.6.04 upgrade but

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-31 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
***I apologize if you receive the posting twice - I tried to send the posting with two pstack output attachments (less than 1 MB in size) but couldn't.*** First of all, thanks to all who responded and provided valuable suggestions to our issue. Rejesh, It happens randomly not at a

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-27 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
though the escalation server is still working...it's at least something you can try and report back. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ZHANG, ERIC L Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Strange

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-26 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
)? Is there are gap in time in the logs (indicating a long operation was running? On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:49 PM, ZHANG, ERIC L ezh...@entergy.com wrote: ** We have sent BMC tech support all the logs including api, filter, sql, escalation, thread, plug-in, arfork, even pstack output that were taken

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-25 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
behavior like this that the logs will indicate. For example, try creating a computed group during production operations, or importing a deployable application. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:10 PM, ZHANG, ERIC L ezh...@entergy.com wrote: ** Hi Listers. We are experiencing intermittent timeouts

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-24 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Interesting you asked about it. When we first encountered the problem, the Cursor Sharing was already set to FORCE both in the Oracle database and ar.conf. The DBA then changed it to be EXACT in the database while we kept it FORCE in ar.conf. This change has improved the performance noticeably,

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
number of records. Then at some magic number the warts start to show. Hope this helps and good luck. Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ZHANG, ERIC L Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
DNS servers that could cause the same symptom. Our network guys sniffed the network to see what we were waiting on. HTH, Dennis ZHANG, ERIC L ezh...@entergy.com Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 01/20/2011 03:10 PM Please respond to arslist

Re: Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ZHANG, ERIC L Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Strange ARS Timeout Problem ** Hi Listers. We are experiencing intermittent timeouts with the ARS. Without me

Strange ARS Timeout Problem

2011-01-20 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Hi Listers. We are experiencing intermittent timeouts with the ARS. Without me doing anything, the AR system becomes normal again after about 5 minutes. All users are getting timeout (or hourglass) but no process is being restarted in armonitor.log. This is the message showing in

FW: Resolved vs.Closed Incidents

2010-01-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Resolved means the customer still has a chance to re-open the ticket. No one should be able to re-open a Closed ticket. -Original Message- From: SUBSCRIBE arslist Melissa [mailto:melissa.r...@stls.frb.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:56 PM Subject: Re: Resolved vs.Closed

FW: Arslist Awards, in peril of cancellation

2008-08-18 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
** I vote for Chris to be MVP too. -Original Message- From: Frank, Gordon M. (CMS/CTR) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:06 AM Subject: Re: Arslist Awards, in peril of cancellation MVP! I vote for Dr. Christopher Strauss. He is a long

Re: Parameter is Incorrect

2008-03-18 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Mike, We have the same problem for users via Citrix. I opened a ticket to BMC support and this was the support's response: As per the version you mentioned in your initial email, you are using Citrix Presentation server 4.0. As per the compatibility matrix, the only supported citrix version for

Re: Remedy 7.0.01 Patch 6 Questions

2008-01-31 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
I always use manual install process to replace related files if possible. That way you can restore AR System to previous state if anything is wrong. I don't trust their patch installer. Eric -Original Message- From: Steve Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Re: Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-30 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
29, 2008 3:35 PM, ZHANG, ERIC L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Axton, I did look at the arplugin log (finest). The arpluin log shows the last log line as: REMEDY.ARF.CAI FINE Entering ARPluginCreateInstance while arplugin was still alive. There should be a line

Re: Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-29 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Patrick, I confirmed with our UNIX admin that the server has not been hardened since its' built. The database and ar server are not on the same box and I don't have problem connecting to the db from my desktop. So it looks like we can eliminate hardening. I use option t on arserverd and

Re: Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-29 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
that causes the problem but still don't know why it does. Thanks, Eric On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:48:52 -0500, Axton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debug plugin logs will be more revealing. Axton Grams On Jan 28, 2008 3:56 PM, ZHANG, ERIC L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all! We have

Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-28 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
Hello, all! We have seen that arpluin dies every 90 seconds, which results in other processes to be terminated. armonitor keeps restarting all the processes. I have looked at the logs (api, sql, filter, escalation, and plugin) and don't have any clues what causes it. **

Re: Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-28 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
.. That is a starter for me. On 1/28/08, ZHANG, ERIC L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all! We have seen that arpluin dies every 90 seconds, which results in other processes to be terminated. armonitor keeps restarting all the processes. I have looked at the logs (api, sql, filter, escalation

Re: Arplugin dies with 0 every 90 seconds

2008-01-28 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
installed the ITSM applications. /Rune Sorlid 2008/1/28, ZHANG, ERIC L [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, all! We have seen that arpluin dies every 90 seconds, which results in other processes to be terminated. armonitor keeps restarting all the processes. I have looked at the logs (api, sql, filter

URGENT - cannot start AR System

2007-10-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
ARS 7.0.01 Solaris 9 Oracle 10gR2 (on another Solaris 9 server) We cannot bring back arsystem server after UNIX admin have applied a UNIX patch on the database server (Solaris 9). There is no error message at arerror.log. ps only show arserverd and armonitor, no sign of other process

Re: URGENT - cannot start AR System

2007-10-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ZHANG, ERIC L Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 1:39 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: URGENT - cannot start AR System Importance: High ** ARS 7.0.01 Solaris 9 Oracle 10gR2 (on another Solaris 9 server) We

URGENT - cannot start AR System - RESOLVED

2007-10-21 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
We added -t parameter to arserverd in the armonitor.conf file and got arsystem startup log file. By looking at the log file, we found out that arserverd took about one hour to get some data dictionary tables such as field_dispprop. It eventually completed startup process but took about ONE hour

Re: Survey Link Issue - Urgent

2007-08-27 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
** Rami, This is a known issue (defect number SW00270693). The BMC support told me that it's been fixed in the latest patch, ARS 7.0.01 patch 4, but I don't see it in the release note as being fixed. Thanks, Eric -Original Message- From: Rami S Ayoub [mailto:[EMAIL

URGENT - ITSM 7 performance issue - help needed

2007-08-08 Thread ZHANG, ERIC L
I post this earlier today but don't see it on the list. I am trying again. I apologize if you already saw this. -Original Message- From: Eric Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ZHANG, ERIC L Subject: URGENT - ITSM 7