Re: Real number fields and the Precision property..

2013-01-23 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, A real number precision is just a display property. The would be stored as a floating point number in the database. This means that the number might or might not be able to store the exact value you intend it to store. Decimal fields can not stores the exact digits you enter, and you can not

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, www.scapatech.com ha a tool tailored for Remedy AR System. Both from an API-angle and from the Mid-Tier angle. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12): * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy

Re: Rejection of Changes and reason why

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Burton
Morning all, FYI, BMC provided a fix for this which we have now deployed to production on 7.6.03. Thanks -Mike Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:49:46 -0600 From: dpathak1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Rejection of Changes and reason why To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** I had added this earlier using a filter.

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread Melanie McAllan
Thanks Misi! Our Scapa TPP solution is validated by BMC and we've been testing and monitoring Remedy and ITSM environments for over 10 years, so we've plenty of experience to share. We'd be happy to let you see what it can do. As Misi said, the website is: http:www.scapatech.com for product

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread Sylvain YVON
Hi, If you need to monitor and not to load test your platform, you can try Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/). It's a free (as in freedom) set of tools that automates browsers. I tested it recently for a custom AR System 7.5 app with good results. The documentation (http://seleniumhq.org/docs/) is

AR Server Event Monitoring Advice Requested

2013-01-23 Thread Lawrence Hayes
We had a situation last weekend where AR Server did not startup due to DB unavailability. What tools do people use to help detect and inform about these conditions? Our vendor says to use 'Splunk'... Does anyone have feedback regarding Splunk or competing tools to detect errors like these?

Re: AR Server Event Monitoring Advice Requested

2013-01-23 Thread Sylvain YVON
Hi, It depends of the monitoring tools you already have. Any tool that can run commands, test a port, and watch log files will do. Some of them are BMC Patrol, Tivoli, Nagios, Zabbix ... You can also take a look at the Monitoring thread started earlier. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Lawrence

Re: AR Server Event Monitoring Advice Requested

2013-01-23 Thread patrick zandi
write a script, and add it to the arsystem startup.. have it do a TNSPING and if the script sees it working.. then finish else in 5 minutes, send and email and notify some group there is a problem.. and shutdown. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Lawrence Hayes lha...@its.jnj.com wrote: We had

Re: Garbled User tool screens

2013-01-23 Thread Drew Shuller
Hi Mary. As far as suggestion #1 from BMC Support...do they mean delete and re-create the User Pref entry for that login? Drew JTF-Bravo, Honduras ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the

Re: AR Server Event Monitoring Advice Requested

2013-01-23 Thread Axton
Splunk is pretty slick software. It is fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable. It basically collects machine information from nodes, whether a log file, the results from a command that is run, or other platform specific information. You can set up alerts in Splunk to take various actions when

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread S Test
Thank you all. I will research all the suggested options. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread John Sundberg
Would you mind sharing your selenium script??? -John On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Sylvain YVON sylvain.y...@gmail.comwrote: ** Hi, If you need to monitor and not to load test your platform, you can try Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/). It's a free (as in freedom) set of tools that

Keyboard Shortcuts in Developer Studio

2013-01-23 Thread Ashcraft, Roy W CTR USAF AFWA 2 SYOS/SYOE
We've recently upgraded to 8.0 and are just starting to use the developer studio for the first time. Is there any way to configure or define keyboard shortcuts in the developer studio? This would be especially useful for guide configuration as the devstudio is far more mouse intensive than the

Re: Monitoring

2013-01-23 Thread Sylvain YVON
It won't help much because it's for a custom SRM application, but here is a simple example. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:05 PM, John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com wrote: ** Would you mind sharing your selenium script??? -John On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Sylvain YVON

Clearing a diary field

2013-01-23 Thread Mayfield, Andy L.
What's the easiest way to clear the values from a diary field? Or is there a way to do this? It seems it cannot be done through a filter or escalation. Andy L. Mayfield Alabama Power Company Protection Control Technician Staff Linc # 10*19140 Cell # 205-288-9140 Office # 205-226-1846

Re: DevStudio and Web Services

2013-01-23 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
I don't think there is any 'easy' way to do it in Dev Studio, but I CAN recommend exporting the WS to XML Def and doing a find/replace, then re-importing :) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Axton Sent:

Re: Clearing a diary field

2013-01-23 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Andy, Diary fields are designed specifically to prevent this activity. There are a few tools out there that will let you edit the diary field...but honestly, easiest method if you don't have one of those is to export the record with request id and diary to ARX file, perform whatever changes to

Re: Clearing a diary field

2013-01-23 Thread Mayfield, Andy L.
I had a feeling that was going to be the case. Thanks for the info. Andy L. Mayfield Alabama Power Company Protection Control Technician Staff Linc # 10*19140 Cell # 205-288-9140 Office # 205-226-1846 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: [EXTERNAL] Check Workflow 7.6.4 Incident

2013-01-23 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
No, the person is not a member of the Owner Group. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Stroud, Natalie K Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Check Workflow 7.6.4 Incident **

iPad - your experience

2013-01-23 Thread rdg em
Greetings ARList, I have a custom Asset Management tool which is used to track test equipment in an RD lab environment. One of our challenges is conducting routine periodic inventories. Inventories require verification of 5+ datapoints (location, correct asset labels, maintenance stickers,

CMDB / ADDM Product Catalog Configurations 7.6.4.

2013-01-23 Thread Rev M Flythe
Hi All, We are trying to make some decisions regarding the Product Catalog. We are using ADDM discovery to populate CIs over into the BMC.ASSET dataset. In this version of ADDM - I believe the ADDM Product Catalog is different than the CMDB Product Catalog. The setting is at: Do not

Re: Clearing a diary field

2013-01-23 Thread Ben Chernys
Our free Diary Editor will allow you to do this. Meta-Update can also do this in an automated way. Cheers Ben Chernys Senior Software Architect Canada / Deutschland Mobile:  +49 171 380 2329    GMT + 1 + [ DST ] Email:   Ben.Chernys_AT_softwaretoolhouse.com Web:

Data Management Tool Invalid Permission Group Errors

2013-01-23 Thread Lisa Kemes
I'm getting Invalid Permission Group errors on the Permission Group Data Management validation, but the permission group is there and is valid. The permission group is General Access. Has anyone ever received Invalid Permission Group errors on a Data Management validation even though the group

Re: DevStudio and Web Services

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
Create it without setting anything there.. save it, export to XML. Edit there. Import.. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:44 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: DevStudio and Web Services

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
Use Notepad ++ XML Tools utility to convert text to xml and xml to text after copying the WSDL part of the definition from the xml definition or def definition. I think it would be easier in this one case to take a .def file as it will be easier to spot the WSDL than from an xml file. Usually like

Re: Clearing a diary field

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
I know it's a clob and that inserts and updates to a clob are handled differently, and I don't recall offhand the 'how to' but in the past I have cleared diaries and setting them to null with an update at SQL level. So that is another option. Sorry I can't help with the 'how to' at the moment but

Re: CMDB / ADDM Product Catalog Configurations 7.6.4.

2013-01-23 Thread Mike Tomasiewicz (ConAgra Foods)
The real problem is not now, it's later when you are mature enough as an organization to start looking at the data in different ways. The more data you have that is not normalized, the more challenges you will have later on trying to get a holistic view. We allow ADDM full control to create

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Developer Studio

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
Look for our (Jason Miller, Rod Harris myself - with some help from Susan Palmer and others) Tips and Tricks on the Dev Studio. We have enlisted some known keyboard shortcuts there. We had a presentation done on RUG 2012, and it should be up there. We intend to continually update this and

License question

2013-01-23 Thread Hodgdon, Paul
I was wondering if anyone knew what type of license a user would need if they were just working on modifying tasks in Task Management. I see Task User doesn't have a license type required, but would they need to have an AR User Floating/Fixed? [Description: Description: Description:

Re: License question

2013-01-23 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The task forms does not seem to be tagged with a licensed application. In other words, an AR User Fixed/Floating would be adequate. Check with your sales rep what kind of license you should actually order. Probably a Specialist Fixed/Floating... Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB,

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Developer Studio

2013-01-23 Thread Ashcraft, Roy W CTR USAF AFWA 2 SYOS/SYOE
Don't suppose you could point me towards where that might be kept? Thanks, Roy -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:55 PM To: arslist@arslist.org Subject: Re:

ITSM 7.6 on MS SQL 2012

2013-01-23 Thread Matthew Perrault
Question for the List: Is anyone out there running ITSM 7.6.04 on MS SQL server 2012? We are trying to decide on sql 2008 or sql 2012. Thoughts/opinions/experiences would be appreciated. Thanks Matt P. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: ITSM 7.6 on MS SQL 2012

2013-01-23 Thread laurent matheo
** Hi :)I never tried 7.6.04 with sql server 2012, but I did a 8.0 with 2012 and it went ok.On 23 Jan, 2013,at 08:20 PM, Matthew Perrault matthew.perra...@genmills.com wrote:Question for the List: Is anyone out there running ITSM 7.6.04 on MS SQL server 2012? We are trying to decide on sql 2008

Re: Real number fields and the Precision property..

2013-01-23 Thread Ben Chernys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point Cheers Ben -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: January-23-13 00:36 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Real number fields and the

Re: Real number fields and the Precision property..

2013-01-23 Thread Mueller, Doug
Just to make sure there is no confusion... One sentence in the message below Decimal fields can not stores the exact... is incorrect. It should be Decimal fields CAN store the exact digits you enter. This is just a typo as the paragraph is correct, but I wanted to make sure that there was no

Re: DSO - issues on 7.6.04?

2013-01-23 Thread Mueller, Doug
Dave, Well the message says Access problem when trying to get the remote definition So, the question that immediately comes to mind is whether you have configured the appropriate passwords for the DSO user to be able to access the remote system? You can get from B to A but not from A to

Re: Real number fields and the Precision property..

2013-01-23 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Sorry Doug, that was indeed a typo... /Misi Just to make sure there is no confusion... One sentence in the message below Decimal fields can not stores the exact... is incorrect. It should be Decimal fields CAN store the exact digits you enter. This is just a typo as the

Re: Real number fields and the Precision property..

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
Thanks Doug, Misi, Ben. I thought it traditional mathematical/arithmetic meaning of real or decimal numbers where what you enter would be what it is saved as. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mueller,

Re: License question

2013-01-23 Thread Easter, David
The ITSM Suite user license bundle that you'd need is the Service Management Specialist. -David J. Easter Manager of Product Management, AR System BSM Atrium Solutions Management BMC Software, Inc.   The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Developer Studio

2013-01-23 Thread Joe D'Souza
It is in the RUG2012 downloads page (which I think is only accessible to those that have access to it - participants). Now that you ask where, I don't think we have anything ready in the Dev Community as yet. Jason was our anchorman with whatever we were collecting so I'll need to circle back with

Re: Using CMDBDriver utility to Export Atrium Data

2013-01-23 Thread Brent Goodman
The proper steps to use the Driver and CMDBDriver are: 1) init 2) log 3) ssp Using the init command initializes/preps the session, destroying any log or ssp command you initiated. The ssp command sets the ports if your using them. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-21, at 4:56 AM, Hullule, Kiran

Re: Possible reasons for 500 - Internal server error. while consuming a AR System published web service.. RESOLVED

2013-01-23 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
There is a table on Pg 355 of the Integration guide name/name Name=$NULL$ or xsd default When the XML element has empty content, AR System first tries to use the xsd default if it exists. (There are two different defaults-the AR System default value and the xsd default value. For

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement? (marginally OT, sanity check)

2013-01-23 Thread Samuel J Albury III
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Re: Touch Screen Interface to Remedy/ITSM 7.6.4

2013-01-23 Thread Samuel J Albury III
Please update us on that. I am very interested. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

Reference the H-Table from a table field

2013-01-23 Thread Hulmes, Timothy CTR MDA/ICTO
Does anyone know if it is possible to display the H-Table on a form? What we are looking at doing is have a table on the form. In that table we would like to display the status history. Any ideas? Tim ___

Re: Reference the H-Table from a table field

2013-01-23 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
If you create a View form against the H table directly then you will only receive 1 row back when you query for a specific Entry ID (Separate fields for each status value and status value date). If you need multiple rows for a single entry then you can create a database view against the H

Re: DSO - issues on 7.6.04?

2013-01-23 Thread Ken Pritchard
One thing I found with earlier versions (might be corrected in V7.6.04) as recent as 7.6.03 was that the system sometimes didn't store (encrypt) the DSO password for the target machine correctly. A trick I found is to go into the ar.conf file (I'm on Solaris) and cut the DSO password for

UTC Time

2013-01-23 Thread Paul Blasquez
Hello All, I was wondering if anyone out there has set up their servers and clients to all use only UTC time (i.e. GMT time without switching to BST for DST)? We run a custom shop with global functions so we need a flat timezone. We'd like to standardize to GMT+0 Europe/London but we are worried

Re: Possible reasons for 500 - Internal server error. while consuming a AR System published web service.. RESOLVED

2013-01-23 Thread Jason Miller
Yeah, I was just noting I have seen soapUI automatically includes junk data in the form of a question mark. Did you get any further on this? Are you specifying the element in the WS call where you want the default to apply? For example if you specify element2/element2 Do you want the AR

Re: Possible reasons for 500 - Internal server error. while consuming a AR System published web service.. RESOLVED

2013-01-23 Thread Jason Miller
Dang, I overlooked this reply before sending mine. Thanks for confirming my train of thought :) Jason On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Grooms, Frederick W frederick.w.gro...@xo.com wrote: There is a table on Pg 355 of the Integration guide name/name Name=$NULL$ or xsd default

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Developer Studio

2013-01-23 Thread Jason Miller
Ok, ok. This Dev Studio Tips and Trick topic keeps coming up. It is like being able to use this tool efficiently is important to people :) We were emailing off list earlier this evening and sharing some of our most recent discoveries. Guess it is only fair we let everybody in. Joe/Rod, let's