Re: Large transactions

2006-11-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Kelly, I am not sure if I'm completely off track here, but it sounds like you need to produce a CSV file for an integration into some other app. If it is, then my story below will make sense and I agree with Rick. We have had to do an integration to SAP where the customer did not want

Re: Form Permissions issue on mid tier

2006-11-16 Thread parikshit saxena
List, Thanks all for your inputs. Yes, we have also zeroed on the idea of popping an error on form access. Regards Parikshit - Original Message From: Carey Matthew Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Sunday, 12 November, 2006 5:07:00 AM Subject: Re: Form

Re: Large transactions

2006-11-16 Thread Jarl Grøneng
On Oracle I would create an external table refering to the file, and then copy records from this external table using std sql. A quick test with a file with 25592(20 columns) records, this was imported into an ordrinary oracle table in just 3,5 seconds. -- Jarl On 11/16/06, Webster, Basil

Change the $OPERATION$ of a form with workflow

2006-11-16 Thread Melanie Snayer
Hey Guys I'm not sure whether this is me taking a long shot or not but I need to know whether the $OPERATION$ of a form can be modified with workflow. Is this possible? If so please help me with it. Regards Mel ___

Re: Custom form logging help desk ticket

2006-11-16 Thread Heider, Stephen
Lisa, There is a free tool named BareTail (http://www.baremetalsoft.com/) that I use frequently. It allows you to view the active link log as it generates in real time. The tool is similar to AR Log Display but also works with server log files (actually, any text file). The thread OT: AR Log

Re: My Departure

2006-11-16 Thread Dwayne Martin
I agree. We will miss James' advice and good humor. Maybe the arslist could take up a collection to pay him just to read the list and give us his input. Best Wishes, James! Dwayne Martin James Madison University Original message Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:38:56 -0500 From: Rick Cook

Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Simmons, Theodore J.
Listers- Would it be advisable to put Miditer 7.x,ARS 7.x running the ITSM 7.x applications on the same server with the below configuration? The alternative would be to use one of the below configurations for Resource only and then use MID Tier on a shared IIS server. Expected 120 users of ITSM

Re: CMDB and naming conventions

2006-11-16 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Jason, We create new classes in our own namespace. In the CMDB2.0 Concepts Best Practices Guide - it recommends this as a best practice Here's the snippet: Whenever you extend the data model, you should use your own namespace instead of BMC.CORE. This prevents your extensions from being

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Cook
Oh, Ted, don't even think about running that combo on anything less than 4 GB of RAM, and for your usage, I would think even that to be probably on the low end of acceptable. Who would build an 8x server with just 1 GB RAM? That makes no sense at all. It isn't adequate for any of the tasks,

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Meyer, Jennifer
That was my first reaction as well. I'm glad Rick spoke up first. 7.x is a memory hog. Go to 8GB of RAM to be on the safe side. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Simmons, Theodore J.
Both good points, but alas those are the configurations the Windows folks gave me as choices. I will double check with them to make sure that low RAM is accurate. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meyer,

Auto Closing a Message Window

2006-11-16 Thread Kyle Whitley
Is it possible to close a Message window without user interaction? For example, a message window would be auto closed after another form loads. Thanks Kyle -- Kyle Whitley IT System Support Professional Office of Information and Instructional Technology (OIIT) Board of Regents of the

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread strauss
No kidding - I've got 10gb RAM and dual opterons under both SQL Server 2005 and the AR server 7.0.01 (separate servers now, but originally shared during our early testing) and I am ordering another box equally strong for mid-tier because the 6gb RAM dual Xeon machine I have mid-tier on right now

OT: CMDB + Retail environment

2006-11-16 Thread Tony Worthington
Happy Thursday everyone... Is there anyone out there in Remedy-land who has implemented (or is planning to implement) CMDB 2.x + Asset (ITSM7) in a retail environment? I'm looking for guidance or examples for extending the data model to handle CI's unique to to retail such as POS hardware

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Simmons, Theodore J.
So is it recommended keeping the two separate MID Tier and Resource? On another note, I did confirm that the configurations originally posted were a typo. Would a 8 processor 8 GB RAM HP Server be good for both? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Cook
I don't know whether there's a clear answer on whether separating the MT function is better performance-wise on the whole than combining it with the AR Server. The real dividing lines on that revolve around issues like security, application function, corporate policies on hosting apps,

Re: Diary Field + Crystal Reports

2006-11-16 Thread T Wang
Hi Les, This looks to be an ODBC problem, try to reinstall Remedy client and hopefully this would fix your problem. Recently we have similar issue and I was able to resolve it by reinstall the client using 5.1.2 patch 1350. On 11/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Don McClure
Multiple processors are most effective in multi-threaded environments-- which should help with all those packages(I believe Rick Cook's comments are well-positioned on this point, including workload of separating these packages onto separate hardware platforms). However, I cannot see 8 Gb as

Re: CMDB and naming conventions

2006-11-16 Thread Jason Miller
Thanks Brain and Cindy. I read the Extending the CDM white paper for 1.1 and didn't find anything about Namespaces just to create your classes with a prefix other then BMC_. I didn't think about looking the 2.x one for more ideas. Jason -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread strauss
You will want to download the white paper on what BMC recommends for server configurations titled Sizing and Capacity Planning for ITSM and CMDB. It is from their new benchmarking group - they presented a server sizing session at UserWorld that convinced me to split the database to a third server.

Re: Running script from within Active Link @@: ERROR / Windows 2003

2006-11-16 Thread Jack Samson
All, I am trying to run a perl script from an Active Link and it always errors out. I have attempted to run it from a .bat file and directly from the perl script itself. It runs without error from the command line. I am running on a Windows 2003 server. I run it with the following: Set

Re: Change the $OPERATION$ of a form with workflow

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Molenda
You cannot directly change the operation, but you can recode the application to: Active Link on Window Loaded/Display Test $OPERATION$ If not the mode you want MODIFY/DIALOG/.. Perform the open window action for the correct mode + view Close the current window. Thanks-n-advance; HDT

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread John Sundberg
Just wondering - could you give us some usage statistics like: - how many web users (Mid-Tier) / hour you have (how many tickets/ modifications) - how many Remedy client users / hour you have (hom many tickets/ modifications) - how many integrations you have The reason is - that it sounds

Remedy server version

2006-11-16 Thread John Sundberg
Anybody still using Remedy ARS older than 5.1.2? (Remedy engine - not Helpdesk) Just wondering if that is the current low end for 95% of the community Thanks, -John John David Sundberg 235 East 6th Street, Suite 400B St. Paul, MN 55101 (651) 556-0930-work (651) 247-6766-cell (651)

Re: Custom form logging help desk ticket

2006-11-16 Thread Lisa Schroer
Populating the Assignee Login Name and Assigned to Individual+ fields worked. Thank you! Stephen, I'll take a look at that log tool, it looks really cool. Thanks! On 11/16/06, Heider, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lisa, There is a free tool named BareTail (http://www.baremetalsoft.com/)

Re: Why do I have to restart ServletExec?

2006-11-16 Thread Mahan, Janet L [EQ]
** I couldn't find any errors for the time it went down. There was a core file in the ServletExecAS directory at the approximate time but may not be related. Janet Mahan 941.766.6199 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

OT: Support site scheduled outage FYI

2006-11-16 Thread Tony Worthington
FYI, posted on BMC/Remedy Support Central: SCHEDULED OUTAGE The Support Website will be unavailable from approximately 19:00 CDT, November 17th until 17:00 CDT, November 19th. Applications impacted include: Issue Management, Knowledge Base, Licensing and Passwords and My Support Profile. If

Re: Mid Tier and Resource on Same Server

2006-11-16 Thread Simmons, Theodore J.
The mid Tier users would mostly be requestors submitting their own incidents; this would be for a group of about 5000, althought there is a charge to limit the client ONLY to the Service desk. There are about 135 remedy client users producing 40 tickets or so an hour producing approx 6400

Re: Multiple home page windows for user

2006-11-16 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Look to see if he has the Save Window Workspace on Exit set. Do This... Have him log in Go To Tools - Options - General Tab Turn ON the Save Window Workspace Close all Remedy form windows Close the User Tool Have him log in Close all Remedy form windows Go To

Re: Change the $OPERATION$ of a form with workflow

2006-11-16 Thread Wixson Carolyn L PSNS
Wow! The timing on this one was great! I was just about to ask the same question. I don't want the Consoles opened in Search, only in New. (It bugs me to see the Advanced Search show where it really cannot be used.) I will try your suggestion. Related Question: It seems that the default mode for

Re: Multiple home page windows for user

2006-11-16 Thread Mark VO
It sounds like a separate home directory exist for each user and the cached forms for the user in question are corrupt. Have the user log into the ws where the problem is occurring, then go to tools, preference and check the home directory (with 7.x the default it: C:\Documents and

Re: Multiple home page windows for user

2006-11-16 Thread Dwayne Martin
Thanks, Fred. The problem seems to be in a faulty launching icon. I've asked the guy to dig it out of the recycle bin and see what the Properties say, but he doesn't have time to do it just now. Dwayne Original message Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:44:42 -0600 From: Grooms, Frederick W

Re: Why do I have to restart ServletExec?

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Molenda
Hum, dump file = hard crash. Ensure you have enough free space in the 'TEMP' directory, and on the drive where the log files are stored for ServletExec. Did anything show in the event log for the time? And how about any IIS error logs? Interesting... What JDK Version? What IIS

Re: Change the $OPERATION$ of a form with workflow

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Molenda
The same workflow would work on Mid-Tier, however it is best if all the links (url / buttons / ...) are coded to bring the form up in the 'expected' mode. For example if you have a start page (like the Home page), add buttons for each specific function needed Ticket Search Ticket Create

bmcSupport Website Alert - Maintenance Scheduled

2006-11-16 Thread Susan Palmer
*Maybe you haven't been to the website in a few days but today the following notice appears:* ** *SCHEDULED OUTAGE *The Support Website will be unavailable from approximately 19:00 CDT (GMT – 06:00), November 17th until 17:00 CDT (GMT – 06:00), November 19th. Applications impacted include: Issue

incoming emails

2006-11-16 Thread Blodgett, Jamie
Ok list . . . I need some help. I've setup the Remedy Email engine. All notifications/emails going out are working great. And MOST emails coming in are working as well. However, the following scenario is NOT working: An email comes into the AR System Email Messages form. The original email

SUSE9 -- DB2

2006-11-16 Thread Xchel
Hello Listener. This is a simple question to know the really kernell parameters on SUSE9 to obtain the best performance for ARS7. some body have this enviroment SUSE9. The problem is that i´ve one box with suse9 and other box with the db that is DB2. the first box have 32 GB on RAM, but

Re: Sybase table designations

2006-11-16 Thread Meyer, Jennifer
H are the status history tables and B are the attachment tables. Somebody correct me if I'm mistaken. J Meyer -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mahan, Janet L [EQ] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:13 PM To:

Re: Mid-tier performance

2006-11-16 Thread Easter, David
It's not AR System 5.1.2 and it's not Tomcat 5.0.30 - but there is a white paper on Tomcat performance as a plug-in vs. standalone in terms of AR System 7.0.01 and Tomcat 5.5 available on the BMC support site: http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/57/94/65794/65794.pdf -David J. Easter Sr.

Re: Sybase table designations

2006-11-16 Thread Nachi Govindasamy
T,B and H all are tables. B for storing the attachment data. H for status history. View be created for each form same as form name (spl characters will be replaced by _) for pulling the data from its T table. -Nachi --- Mahan, Janet L [EQ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me off

Re: Migration/Uprage from 5.01.02 to 7.01 (FIXED)

2006-11-16 Thread Marquez Rankin
The ARAdmin and dbo weren't synced in the original database. All tables created after 2003 were owned by ARAdmin but not dbo. That was the problem. Support provided the following SQL script: -- This script changes the object owner to DBO for all objects in the ARSystem database -- Use At

How to Open Existing HT when Change Resolved

2006-11-16 Thread Susan Palmer
Hi everyone, I cannot seem to get past this issue and I'm sure it's right before my eyes. If you're familiar with Change Tasking you know that when all the Tasks are closed the Change status moves to Resolved. Sometimes we create the Change from a Help Ticket via Related Items. I have a field

Re: Diary Field + Crystal Reports

2006-11-16 Thread remedy
That was one of the first things I tried, but it didn't work. I finally created a subreport for the diary field, and as long as it was placed after the actual diary field (supressed) it worked fine, but took a little longer to run. Thanks for your suggestion Les Ganton Hi Les, This looks

Re: Submit email creates many, many CR tickets off one e-mail!!

2006-11-16 Thread Joel Sender
It sounds like ESP job-abend monitoring software is reporting each time a ping goes unanswered. Try filtering out the redundant notifications: Filter #1, blank run-if, set fields from the current $SCHEMA$, qual = whatever would be a duplicate entry, set a char_field with 'entry_id', if no match

Very slow Cache ReLoad

2006-11-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, Our Dev Server Config:- Single Server running App and db, Win 2000 SP4, SQL 2000 SP4, AR 6.3 Patch 18. Question 1:- When running an ARSignal or reload, the server takes about a day to populate the group_cache table. All during this time we get the ARERR 92 Timeout but is