Re: Display date/time field values in notifications using user's time zone setting.

2010-07-27 Thread sudeep kumar
here is a solution.. create a character field and push the timefieldvalue from the which ever values you want to the character field. then while sending notifications use this character field. i hope this works On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Shyam Attavar atta...@sbcglobal.netwrote:

Re: Error using rrrchive

2010-07-27 Thread Rafael Bertolini
HI Misi Thanks for your reply. I took a look at ARERR91 description and then checked the handlers on my windows server and it seems to be ok. Answering your questions, one server is version 5 and the other 7.1. I'm migrating data from an archive form with no workflow related to it. In the

Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-27 Thread John Baker
Axton, This exception: RuntimeExceptionjava.lang.IllegalStateException at org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade.sendRedirect(ResponseFacade.java:435) Can occur when Tomcat tries to write to a stream that has been closed - perhaps mod_jk is not configured correctly? I would

Re: Error using rrrchive

2010-07-27 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, ARAPILOGGING exists for old versions as well, but may not be well documented. Follow the information for 7.5 ARAPILOGGING. I do not think that you will get much out of that though, as the failing call is ARMergeEntry, and we get the error message... The only thing I can think of is

Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread tristan.rop...@t-online.de
** Hello,I have here in Remedy 5 a strange behavior.I have a Remedy Application 5 on my laptop with the exact definitions as in der test environment.Even the data is a copy.When i try to change a form (putting a button, etc) on my laptop and i want to import this form in the test environment,i can

Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread Rogerio Aguiar
Hi Tristan, This is exactly how it works in version 5. When you import in place a form, all data is deleted. Regards, Rogerio On Ter 27/07/10 08:29 , tristan.rop...@t-online.de tristan.rop...@t-online.de sent: ** Hello, I have here in Remedy 5 a strange behavior. I have a Remedy

Auto-populating WO Fields without info entered

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Matovu
Hi, I created a service request which gathers information to populate a work order template utilizing the Details 2 tab to store the gathered information. The fields which were mapped include WO Type Field 11_Char, WO Type Field 12_Char to WO Type Field 17_Char. However, when a user fills the

Re: Error using rrrchive

2010-07-27 Thread Rafael Bertolini
Hi Misi Yes, I could set ARAPILOGGING on the current version and it generated the log file, but as you expected, no really useful information was provided (just the failed ARMergeEntry with no description on why it failed). The faulty records always fail. I can use qual to try to migrate only

Service Request Approvals based on Requestor's Department

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Matovu
Hi all, I have defined several service request to be approved using Service Request Approval - Level instead of Management Chain. However, on the Approval Mappings, the mapping criteria is only Navigation Categories, SRD Information and Requestor Information. Is there any way out-of-box to do

Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Environment: Windows Server 2003 SP2 virtualized under VMWare ESX 3.5 Core system: ARSystem 7.5 patch 5 Assignment Engine (7.5) Approval Engine (7.5) Flashboards (7.5) Email Engine (7.5) Applications: Incident Management (7.6 Patch 001) Change Management (7.6 Patch 001) Release Management

Re: Service Request Approvals based on Requestor's Department

2010-07-27 Thread Ram Rudra
Richard, There is no OOB code. But you have to write a filter on the SRM:Request form. Thanks Regards, Ram Rudra From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Richard Matovu Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Service Request Approvals based on Requestor's Department

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Matovu
Hi Ram, Thanks for the quick response. Any links or tutorial you can point me to to try it out? Thanks and Regards, Richard On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ram Rudra rambabu.ru...@gssamerica.comwrote: ** Richard, There is no OOB code. But you have to write a filter on the SRM:Request

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Alan Abrams
Is the DB installed on this VM as well? The biggest gotcha I've come across is make sure the MAC address gets changed on the 2nd VM. When you boot the VM make sure you choose I copied it. This should change the MAC address but check to make sure. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Terry Bootsma

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Cook
The bottom line appears to be that the current construct of Release and Change is not as ITIL-compliant as BMC believes it to be, so you will have to choose whether you want to stick with ITIL or use the BMC Release package. I have been told that no changes to the current product construct are in

Re: Service Request Approvals based on Requestor's Department

2010-07-27 Thread Ram Rudra
Hi Richard, No tutorials will be available. You can write a filter on Modify action on SRM:Request Use the set field action to read the values from the CTM:Support Group Write one more set field action to set the group id or other things Use the Notify action to notify to the Group

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I still hope that the Change Mgmt product manager at BMC would chime in this discussion, in the same way that David and Doug have when questions about ARS pop-up , to at least explain why things were done a certain wayand what is the recommendation. As more companies use the OOTB

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** No.. the database is on another server. We would restore the database backup to another DB name in SQL Server and point the ar.cfg to the appropriately new database.So... you have gotten this to work then in a similiar situation?Terry On Jul 27, 2010, Alan Abrams auds...@gmail.com wrote: ** Is

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Tommy Morris
I think that IIS hates being moved to a different server. If I recall you will need to remove it and reinstall it or your mid-tier and flashboards will not work (and of course all flex-forms). There may be some new tools for VM that facilitates the IIS switch but I have definitely seen the

Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Software: ITSM 7.1 and 7.6 - Incident ManagementHi everyone:My second arslist post in the same day! Wow... this must be something... :-)I've done some investigation into how a person or group would generate a report ofall incidents that they have worked on for the last "N" days using the OOB

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks Tom..Our midtier is on a different server and we have considered re-installing midtier (not a big job). This is just with respect to the Application server (ARS and related software).Terry On Jul 27, 2010, Tommy Morris tommy.mor...@radioshack.com wrote: I think that IIS hates being

Re: Display date/time field values in notifications using user's time zone setting.

2010-07-27 Thread LJ LongWing
Sudeep, That will actually not fix the issue as the fact that the notification is being sent out from the server, in serer time zone, so moving it to a char field will do nothing but turn the timestamp into text and preserve the time zone, not adjust it to client zone. From: Action Request

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Cook
That would be nice, wouldn't it! I believe that there would be some areas of disagreement between us and him. I have no problem engaging in discussions with people with opposing points of view, because I always feel I can learn something. If the Product Manager has the same attitude, we would

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Benedetto Cantatore
The canned reports are a bit lacking. I usually take the OOB report and modify it to suit me. So if you prefer Group Assignments to Incidents to use 'Status-History.Assigned.' then extract this report from the Reports form and modify it. You'll need Crystal Reports to modify. Ben Cantatore

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Ram Rudra
Yes, You have two fields from the HPD:Help_Desk form, You can get the report requirement. Status_History_Assigned_Time Status_History_Assigned_User Thanks Regards, Rambabu Rudra System Administrator From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-27 Thread LJ LongWing
Axton, Our configs are surprisingly similar..we are using the WebLogic server as both Web and JSP at this point.we don't seem to be having issues with the WebLogic with no Proxy in place.nor do we seem to have issues when using the Tomcat that comes with 7.5 (5.5.28).so I suggest trying to bypass

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks for your feedback so far...The issue I see with Status History is that it represents the "last" user and time that this incident was assigned during the incident lifecycle. If this incident goes from one person to another, reporting via Status History will miss the original assignee and

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread LJ LongWing
Terry, I can’t speak to how ITSM works, but to get this type of functionality in custom apps I have worked on in the past, you basically need to have a form that gets an entry for EVERY update to an incident, at minimum you would want to track who made the update. Then you could run your

Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Its only after version 6.3 I think that the import of definitions to replace a form preserves data. Prior to that it deletes the form and data and creates a new form. Joe From: tristan.rop...@t-online.de tristan.rop...@t-online.de To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Thought so.. Glad it worked for you.. Joe From: Rick Phillips r...@netfirst.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 12:04:49 AM Subject: Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser... Thanks, Joe, yes it was a stray, single space on each one:

Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It was in 6.0 that the ARImport-functionality was changed. Prior to version 6.0 servers I used ARImport() to quickly clear all records in a form befor importing data with RRR|Chive. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se Products from RRR Scandinavia: * RRR|License - Not

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-27 Thread Axton
Unfortunately, bypassing Apache altogether is not an option as our SSO authentication is handled through an Apache plug-in. Axton Grams The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary

Re: Monitoring Process like Arserver , Apache , Tomcat using Remedy

2010-07-27 Thread Shellman, David
Amey, There is a flaw with monitoring Arserver processes from within the AR System. If the arserver process is not running, the system is off line. The escalation will not fire for the run process. Also you will not be able to login to the system to check if it is green or red. Dave

Re: Error using rrrchive

2010-07-27 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, My guess is that the caracters encoded might be the problem. RRR|Chive leaves to the ARAPI to do the character conversion, but if the target database does not support a specific character, you might get a problem. I guess... I also guess that in version 5.x of the AR System, character

Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Misi, Thank you for the correction.. 6.0 it was.. Joe From: Misi Mladoniczky m...@rrr.se To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 11:31:51 AM Subject: Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5 Hi, It was in 6.0 that the ARImport-functionality was changed.

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Benedetto Cantatore
The form this report is pulling data from is called HPD:HelpDeskAssignmentLogJoin. Every time the assignment changes to a new individual an entry is made. Use the creation date of the entry. Ben Cantatore Remedy Manager (914) 457-6209 Emerging Health IT 3 Odell Plaza Yonkers, New York

Re: Strange behavior in Remedy 5

2010-07-27 Thread Ars Lister
Tristan,   Your best bet would be to see if your DBA can rollback your test environment to before you did the import.  Once they do that, do an export of ALL data that sits on any form that you are going to import.  The DBA can also do a snapshot of the app from their end, but depending on what

Re: Service Request Approvals based on Requestor's Department

2010-07-27 Thread Mahesh
I think you can achieve this in SRM 7.6. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Richard Matovu rich...@matrich.net wrote: ** Hi all, I have defined several service request to be approved using Service Request Approval - Level instead of Management Chain. However, on the Approval

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-27 Thread Ars Lister
Hi Sandy,   Everything that was said is valid.  I just wanted to add something that was yet to be mentioned.   As a contractor, I have had several large clients that have embarked on this mission.  The majority of them that do so are attempting to align themselves to ITIL V3 as Remedy ITSM is

Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
We need to copy data from one server to another but have a few questions...such as is the migrator robust/reliable enough to do it, and at what version and patch level? Is there a specific procedure that we need to follow/a particular order to have the best chance for success? Any/all

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Darrell Reading
A couple questions. OS, Database, and ARS level? Darrell Reading Systems Engineer Phone 479.204.5739 dere...@wal-mart.com Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 805 Moberly Lane, MS-0560-68 Bentonville, AR 72716 Save Money. Live Better From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Also . Is this a one-time copy on an ongoing thing (daily/weekly/monthly/.)? Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Darrell Reading Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
Windows 2003 server MS Sql 2005 AR 7.5 patch 01 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Darrell Reading Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another... ** A couple

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
One time, but the way that things tend to go it may be biweekly from production to development test server. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:02 PM To:

HPD:IncidentInterface_Create field TemplateID2 (303022900)

2010-07-27 Thread Andre Hughes
Hello, I am trying to find out what the purpose is for field TemplateID2 (303022900) on the form HPD:IncidentInterface_Create. Does anyone know what this field is for and what valid values would be used for this field? Thanks, Andre

Re: HPD:IncidentInterface_Create field TemplateID2 (303022900)

2010-07-27 Thread strauss
It's been YEARS since I did the integration from Kinetic Request to Incident and understood every moving part, but as I recall, when creating an Incident through that form and you want to specify an Incident Template to use, I _think_ you must have values for BOTH TemplateID (the InstanceId,

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Chintan Shah
Richard, There are plenty of ways to do this. One of them is implementing DSO (Distributed Server Object) server. Based on configuration, DSO can move data from 1 server to another instantaneously. More information can be found in 6.3 documentation(DSOAdminGuide-630.pdf). Thanks Chintan. ---

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
Will that work with a 7.5 database? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chintan Shah Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:47 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another... ** Richard, There are

Un-Fragmenting SQL Indexes for ITSM 7.5 + SQL Server 2005

2010-07-27 Thread Bilinski, John CTR WHS/ITMD/ASD
All, We are about to deploy a AR System 7.5 + ITSM 7.6 on SQL Server 2005. What is the recommended way to handle un-fragmenting of the ARSystem Db indexes? More Specifically: 1. Does un-fragmenting the indexes give us any performance boost or does it cause more problems when trying to fix? 2.

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Richard, What is the purpose of copying this data? Depending on that your tools and hence the method would vary.. DSO is for copying data to 'follow the sun' to ensure business continuity irrespective of the time locally in case you have global operations. DB / system Replication is another

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
The server is local – about 20 feet away. I was told that copying via an SQL database copy wouldn’t work due to mac addresses being copied from the old to the new database, etc. – hence it seemed like Migrator would be the way to go….but that’s a guess – hence asking on the list….. From:

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
If you check the archives you will see lots of threads on db copying. Personally, that would be my 1st choice for this type of replication. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Richard Copits Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:50 PM To:

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread LJ LongWing
Joe, I once used DSO to keep my reporting server up to date J…..so it’s not necessarily just for follow the sun J From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Copits
Already done….just looking for current/recent experiences….thanks anyway…. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:16 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Moving/copying data from one

Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-27 Thread John Baker
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Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Coping a database doesnt copy the mac ID.. as long as the database is free of any hard coded server references, it should work. And off course the versions should match both of the ARS server and the database.. Joe From: Richard Copits

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
We do a P to V (Physical to VM) every once in a while. It’s not the kind of thing you want to do every week, but it does create an exactly replica of the production environment. Once the VM is up running, we have a checklist of things to edit like ar.cfg, armonitor.cfg,

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Boyd, Rebecca E.
Terry, Take a look at the “Search Work Info” form. It’s a join between Incident the work log. Some of our people use this for reporting purposes. Rebecca From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Mueller, Doug
Everyone, Given that this discussion has wandered around for a while and in several different directions, I wanted to put together a response. I chose to remove the history of the discussion since there were several different sets of includes with different depths and just start with a clean

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Do have a look at RRR|Chive. It can do incremental data transfers of the forms you need (probably most forms but not all) very quickly. https://www.rrr.se/cgi/rrrchive/rrrchive https://www.rrr.se/cgi/rrrchive/config https://www.rrr.se/c/doc/rrrchive/ Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB,

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
That is an innovative use of it :-) Joe From: LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 4:19:29 PM Subject: Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another... ** Joe, I once used DSO to keep my reporting server up

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Jason Miller
We have stared using Meta-Update for transferring (and transforming) data. You can script record updates, creates and deletes (say if the record no longer exists in the source server). It is nice to have the ability to do more traditional loops and if then else statements and still use the Remedy

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Joe DeSouza
Like Fred, I'd second DB replication too.. There may be server names that 'accidentally' gets hard-coded into the definitions.. There may also be some server names embedded in configuration data like AIE, Help Files configuration in the application properties form, etc.. The process for

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks Rebecca et al...I looked at this join form, but it does not have any other dates other than the incident reported date. Because it is a join form, it doesn't have an associated create date like another arslist'r suggested earlier.I can't believe this isn't OOB...Terry On Jul 27, 2010,

Re: Auto-populating WO Fields without info entered

2010-07-27 Thread Mahesh
What is the SRM version ? The last time I saw this defect (# SW00320171) was on SRM 2.2 Patch 2. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Richard Matovu rich...@matrich.net wrote: ** Hi, I created a service request which gathers information to populate a work order template

Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another...

2010-07-27 Thread Chintan Shah
Yes. --- On Tue, 7/27/10, Richard Copits richard@bwc.state.oh.us wrote: From: Richard Copits richard@bwc.state.oh.us Subject: Re: Moving/copying data from one server to another... To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 11:51 AM Will that work with a 7.5

Re: Auto-populating WO Fields without info entered

2010-07-27 Thread Richard Matovu
Hi Mahesh, Yes, it is SRM 2.2 Patch 2. How do I solve this defect? Could you please send me any links, tutorials or pointers? Thanks and Kind Regards, Richard On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mahesh mchand...@gmail.com wrote: ** What is the SRM version ? The last time I saw this defect (#