BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Bhupesh Gupta
Hi - Does anybody has any input or any matrix on Performace og BMC ARS on different OS, so that We can take a decision that Which OS is more suitable. I have option of both Windows 2008 or Unix , but on Which OS BMC Product's performace is better. Please advise -- Regards, Bhupesh Gupta

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Patrick Zandi
Solaris 11 is coming out in days: sun boxes are claiming 5x performance with new cpu's ... I would go that direction... Very soon Just something to think about Sent from my iPhone so typo's or funky words can and do happen! On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Bhupesh Gupta

Re: Separation of DB and Application server

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
I would consult with your network team for duplex settings.  Reason being, your switches or routers may be set for something other than full duplex.  If your servers' NIC contradicts this it will cause severe packet loss and increased collisions. Solaris servers should:auto negotiate out of the

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
Hi Gupta, I have not looked to see but is 7.6.04 compatible with Solaris 11 in the compatibility matrix?  I hope so because I'd like to upgrade :-) We have test systems on all platforms.  To be honest, I've not really every caught myself saying, wow this one is so much faster.  I would

SRM - Troubleshoot

2011-10-05 Thread Hyunkel v2.0
Listers, I found another tricky issue, SRM is not creating incidents, neither changes, in the Service Request form I only see that the PDT is in progress but AOT only stays in Initiate status, but this is not happening with all SR it only happens with those with Navigational categories

Share point integration with bmc remedy?

2011-10-05 Thread michael campbell
At rug 2011 there was a vendor booth that showed how they do share point integration, who was the vendor? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend

SMS sending multiple messages

2011-10-05 Thread S Test
Hi, Instead of sending email notification for one grp I am using notification to their cell number. The AR message form shows that one notification has been sent but user gets 20/30 texts of the same message. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks

Re: Share point integration with bmc remedy?

2011-10-05 Thread Arner, Todd
I think it was Rapid Technologies Todd From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of michael campbell Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Share point integration with bmc remedy? ** At rug 2011 there was a

Re: SMS sending multiple messages

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew C Goodall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS Yes - SMS / Text is limited in lneth like twitter - in fact twitter took it from text message limit. So cell phone companies allow greater length by breaking them up into multiple messages. Your users will love that, especially if they have overages on going over

Re: Barcode Scanners

2011-10-05 Thread Theo Fondse
Hi Vishwa! We use this system a lot for doing fast Asset Audits, but it also works with receiving/dispatching goods etc.: Key Features Benefits  Provides a simple, fast barcode scanning user interface to your Service Desk to significantly improve the time required for the following

Re: Share point integration with bmc remedy?

2011-10-05 Thread John Sundberg
I think it was Meritide. http://www.meritide.com/ http://www.RemedyAnywhere.com/ -John On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Arner, Todd wrote: ** I think it was Rapid Technologies Todd From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of michael

Re: Share point integration with bmc remedy?

2011-10-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It probably depends on what sort of integration you are looking to do. Before looking into vendors I would see if Remedy and SharePoint have the tools you need already built in. There is a lot you can do that is simple and requires no additional money to be spent. I've worked with the

Re: Share point integration with bmc remedy?

2011-10-05 Thread Hocks, Mike (DOT)
You are correct it was Meritide...I think the sales rep name was Clay. -Mike Michael Hocks Remedy Administrator 651.366.4091 mike.ho...@state.mn.usmailto:mike.ho...@state.mn.us From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent:

Save Attachment from another for

2011-10-05 Thread jham36
Hi list. need some help here. I am trying to save an attachment from a different form from where the workflow is being fired. I am trying to get an attachment from a work info form. I am only testing this out so I have some values hard coded in my workflow. I am doing a set fields action to a

On-Call Notifications

2011-10-05 Thread Mike Tomasiewicz (ConAgra Foods)
I'm curious to hear if anyone has tackled, or attempted to tackle creating an on-call list for their support queues and using workflow to send out emails/pages to the identified support staff when a ticket is generated. Did you customize, use a third party tool, a combination of both, or

Re: On-Call Notifications

2011-10-05 Thread Jones, Jared K DLA CIV TRANSACTION SERVICES
We integrate with Alarmpoint (now called xMatters), which is a third-party tool. It's worked well for us. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Tomasiewicz (ConAgra Foods) Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Re: Save Attachment from another for

2011-10-05 Thread Frank Caruso
Create a display only attachment field and pool on the different form. Do a set fields from the existing form with the attachment to the new display only attachment. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:29 PM, jham36 jha...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi list. need some help here. I am trying to save an

SR_M 7.6.04 survey error

2011-10-05 Thread andres tamayo
hi there i'm dealing with what seems to be an issue, just want to know if someone else has experience the following behavior i configuring survey for a company, not -global- for service request. i already create the survey and configure the rules but the field enable survey is set to NO, but the

Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Cecil, Ken
Hello, Does anybody know off hand if there is OOB functionality or configuration to have Incidents which have tasks automatically change status to resolved when the last task is closed? Or is this going to be a customization also? BTW We are on ServiceDesk ITSM 7.6.0. Thanks, Ken

Re: Get Entry + Set Fields from another form's Set Fields operation

2011-10-05 Thread Brien Dieterle
Aha, I think I finally understand now, thank you for the help. As you suggested, using the Request ID mapping by doing a prior set fields lookup does in fact work. However, you might have implied that it would execute filters that had get entry execution-- I still have to enable service for

Re: Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Guillaume Rheault
No there is not... Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] on behalf of Cecil, Ken [kce...@hubbell.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 1:14 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Configure Incidents to Close

Re: Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
There's similar workflow in Change Management that performs the same function if you want to take a look at how it's implemented OOB. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Service Portfolio Manager Infrastructure - Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 -Original Message- From:

Re: Save Attachment from another for

2011-10-05 Thread jham36
Thanks Frank. That seems to work. The next hurdle is to only save the attachment if the attachment name meets certain criteria. I am thinking that I can get the attachment into the new display only attachment field, then do a set field action to a character field. That should give me the

Re: Barcode Scanners

2011-10-05 Thread Francois Seegers
Hi Vishwa, You might also want to have a look at TracerPlus (www.ptshome.com) but will require some development on Remedy to stage the data and do the rest with workflow. Regards Francois From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Theo

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Easter, David
As per the compatibility matrix: Vendor Backwards Compatibility and AR System 7.6.04 It is expected that a vendor will retain full backwards compatibility with existing major or minor versions of a product when releasing newer versions of their products. This includes major, minor and

Re: Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
It makes sense though.. With change management, there is a finite list of tasks to complete the change and when the last task is complete, technically the change is complete.. If you think the change is not complete and there is something remaining to be done, then there was an undocumented

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread patrick zandi
Perfect timing: I knew that.. was waiting for the official... Thank you again.. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Easter, David david_eas...@bmc.com wrote: ** As per the compatibility matrix: ** ** *Vendor Backwards Compatibility and AR System 7.6.04 * It is expected that a vendor

Re: Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You could also use something like Abydos designer so that the last task in your Incident is a task that performs an update of the Incident and sets the status to Resolved. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Service Portfolio Manager Infrastructure - Service Management Office:

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread John Sundberg
A much simplified approach (and real too) -- thanks. -John On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Easter, David wrote: ** As per the compatibility matrix: Vendor Backwards Compatibility and AR System 7.6.04 It is expected that a vendor will retain full backwards compatibility with existing major or

Re: Configure Incidents to Close when all Tasks are closed

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
That would actually amount to having a 'follow-up', 'is your problem resolved' type of task.. If that is a business requirement that you follow up, so be it.. This probably is more of a business requirement when the customer serviced is external and a revenue generating customer. If not, the

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
John, Thanks for the input. However, I am not completely sold on that line of thinking. Oracle 11g client is unsupported while Oracle 11g database is supported. Simply putting this back in the vendor's court is very presumptuous.

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
The database should be compatible.. Client libraries are a different issue.. Try using the client of a compatible version with 11g and it should work.. Joe -Original Message- From: John Doe Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:49 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To:

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
You are certainly correct. If I use Oracle 10g client it is compatible with an Oracle 11g database, as per the matrix. But that was not the point. My point is that simply saying that the product is compatible as long as the vendor (Microsoft, Sun) claim backward compatibility is very

Re: On-Call Notifications

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
The cheapest and fastest integration product I worked with was EtherPage that is now owned by Mobilesys. There is also TelAlert which may also be easy to set up but not as easy as EtherPage.. And then a more robust product as someone else pointed out that is rich in functionality, is

SRM Permissions missing

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
Hey everyone, I noticed today when using appadmin or any other user including Demo, I cannot see the Business Manager and SRM Administrator permissions. I tried to add them with appadmin and they were missing. Any ideas? 7.6.04, Windows Server 08, SQL Server 08 Thanks in advance!

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
With an OS, yes that may be true.. Upgrading the OS to a higher version can potentially leave you with system libraries of a higher version, which your current version of ARS will not be able to use.. It has happened to me once in the past where I had to work around it by copying some of the

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread John Doe
I hear that Joe, I had the exact same thing happen to me. After many hours of troubleshooting (and the help of some others) I finally fixed it. I made me weary of the backwards compatibility statement. Thanks again for sharing the story :-)

OT: BMC Patrol Monitoring Engineer

2011-10-05 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi, There is a job opportunity below. Please email me if you are interested and have the skill set. The consultant must have experience with BMC Patrol and some of the other tools listed below. Do you know of anyone who might be interested in this long term contract. The consultant

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Axton
As a customer the current approach to supporting later versions is better. There is an element of risk introduced with this approach in the sense that what is listed as compatible may not have been tested. This can be a headache when you run into issues, but there is a policy in place to make

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
Hi Bhupesh, One thing that no one has mentioned on this thread is the consideration of case sensitivity. If you want case-insensitive searches then MS-SQL would be a better bet. However db performance would be reduced compared to Oracle. Since it is MS-SQL your choice of OS becomes more

help text in web

2011-10-05 Thread Villamar, Mark Johnson
Hello, Can someone help me create a help text or tool kit in web? Thanks. Regards, Mark Johnson S. Villamar IT - Application Center of Excellence (ACE) Remedy Support Team Office: (214) 567-1020 Email: m-villa...@ti.commailto:m-villa...@ti.com

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I heard the same thing about Oracle case insensitivity too.. But what I would like to know is compared to what? Are we comparing an Oracle case sensitive database against another Oracle case insensitive database? If so yes its obvious there would be an expected performance hit.. Or is that

Re: On-Call Notifications

2011-10-05 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I have an On Call Application that we customized, but it only shows who to call (right now). Hopefully we'll get it to a level that if a person is on call, they will get the ticket assigned to them automatically. Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Web Services and Qualifications

2011-10-05 Thread Kemes, Lisa
I set up a simple web service (with OPGETLIST only) for consumption and the user is saying that nothing it coming back - not even errors So I created a project in Soap. My Qualification is urn:QualificationCategory' = ADMIN/urn:Qualification (Category is included in my Output). But I'm

Re: Web Services and Qualifications

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Are you opening Category with a double or single quote? Joe From: Kemes, Lisa Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:20 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Web Services and Qualifications ** I set up a simple web service (with OPGETLIST only) for

Re: Web Services and Qualifications

2011-10-05 Thread Alejandro Canon
Lisa: You should use urn:Qualification'Category' = ADMIN/urn:Qualification Single quotes for Field Label and double quotes for Field Value, just like Advanced Search way. HTH, Alejandro De: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] En nombre de Kemes, Lisa

ARERR 120039 - operation violates the cardinality constraint...

2011-10-05 Thread Gerard Lafontant
Anyone has seen this error before? and what's a possible fix on this issue? thank you all in advance. The operation violates the cardinality constraint of the relationship. : 1-Many cardinality will be violated. Cannot create relationship instance because right endpoint is already in another

Re: BMC Performance Matrix on ARS 7.6.04 on Different OS

2011-10-05 Thread Garrison, Sean (Norcross)
Hey Joe, It is my understanding that MS-SQL outperforms any oracle implementation on any OS when it comes to case-insensitive searches (provided the hardware was similar). Oracle does not support it as an option you turn on with 10g or earlier (10GR2 is where you can build indexes that use

Form DEF File needed

2011-10-05 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Hi All it looks like the form RMG:AssocCItoTS or (Associate CIs to Time Segment in the User Tool) on my server has got corrupted. I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to send me a def file of the form? I don't think I need the workflow, just the def file for the form would do. Many

Re: Form DEF File needed

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
If this is an OTB form you should find the def file in the installation directory, where the installer copies all def files and configuration data that get imported later during the process of installation.. Joe From: Shafqat Ayaz Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:10 PM Newsgroups:

Re: On-Call Notifications

2011-10-05 Thread patchsk
We have a custom built OnCall listing app built on remedy, where people can edit the oncall information related to their groups, they also have the ability to set start date and end date for oncall rotation. Our NOC will use that oncall list to make manual calls to them if a critical ticket is

Re: help text in web

2011-10-05 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
what do you need?   Shafqat Ayaz    From: Villamar, Mark Johnson m-villa...@ti.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:36 PM Subject: help text in web ** Hello,   Can someone help me create a help text or tool kit