Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Doug Blair
Dear Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Doc missed you :-) Doug -- Doug Blair +1 224-558-5462 Sent from my iPhone6+ Auto-corrected typos, misspellings and non-sequiturs are gratefully attributed to Steve Jobs :-) On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.com wrote: **

Submitting huge SR's at a time

2014-10-16 Thread babajan baig
Hello Team, One Clients uses an SRD when a user leaves the company. This works fine when a single user leaves. Now 500 leaves. And they do not want to submit 500 REQ. - - Is there a way to automate the creation of the 500 service requests ? Please let us know is there any

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Blairing
Today there are more breakout sessions, but there is also a closing keynote session for everyone. We're watching slide show of all the exciting character hugs from the party (Spider-Man, Captain America and numerous Marvel heroes were there)! A few scary pix taken from the Hulk roller coaster.

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Blairing
Notes from the closing keynote, again my running notes, no editing. Marketing VP Paul Appleby introduces futurist Tony Seba. Tony will speak about Disruption Tony addresses the fact the disruption happens quickly. The car replaced the horse in New York (except for one in each of the picture)

Re: Diff Files and Migrator

2014-10-16 Thread Support
Hi Lisa, If you want to automatically save definition files, compare them, save the differences, document the differences, you should take a look at ARSmarts (www.arsmarts.com). Feel free to contact me if you want to know more. Best regards, Kaïs kais.albas...@arsmarts.com On 10/10/2014

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Blairing
As a further example of disruptive technologies, I purchased Tony Seba's book, Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, while seated in the audience. He signed my IPad with a marker, and I have already finished reading it... Well... Maybe a little exaggeration there Doug -- Doug

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Stanley Feinstein
Doug, I really appreciate your writing this commentary. Thanks. Stan w. 310-230-1722. c. 310-428-5748. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Blairing Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 6:49 AM To:

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Howard Richter
I agree thanks Doug. I was among those that needed a little more sleep. Even missed breakfast. Howard Sent from my iPhone 5 On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Stanley Feinstein st...@projectremedies.com wrote: Doug, I really appreciate your writing this commentary. Thanks. Stan

Stuck at Executing SQLs in 8.1 Stack Installer

2014-10-16 Thread Aedrian Escultura
Hi ARSList, Has anyone ever encountered an issue running the 8.1 stack installer - particularly at the Execute SQLs part? (Screenshot attached) I can see that it was able to create only the ACTLINK table, nothing after that. DB sessions are all inactive. Even the

Re: Stuck at Executing SQLs in 8.1 Stack Installer

2014-10-16 Thread Patil, Vivek
Hi Aedrian, Can you please refer https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/itsm81/Configuring+Oracle+databasesConfiguring+Oracle+databases And https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/itsm81/Installing+the+BMC+Remedy+ITSM+Suite+Preconfigured+Stack In your case we would recommend you to

Last day last session of Engage

2014-10-16 Thread Howard Richter
To all who attended, It was a great event and as always I do enjoy spending time with my Remedy/BMC family. As always parting is such sweet sorrow. However, there will be next year ( time to start saving some money for the tables ). Safe travels to all and see you on the ARlist as well as

Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread William Rentfrow
I sent this to our premiere support person and manager, but I'd be interested to see what others have to say about this too. Original message below: Hi - This came up on our call and I wanted to write it out. BMC has stated that the Windows User Tool (WUT) is going to be discontinued (in

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Voudouris, Chris
Has anyone tried doing what William is asking for with BMC's BPPM suite? On paper that looks like the way to go, but I wonder if the LOE to set it up is worth the cost. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread John Sundberg
Write a JSP that connects via the Java API to each machine directly. Done. Get lunch. -John On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:02 PM, William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com wrote: ** I sent this to our premiere support person and manager, but I'd be interested to see what others have to

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Even though support for the WUT was discontinued after 7.6.4 you can still use it to log into the servers (unless you set the Minimum API version value). Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Thursday, October

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread William Rentfrow
John - You're right - a custom solution is pretty easy, but it kind of proves my point: there's no easy way to do it with the BMC tools. William Rentfrow From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, October 16,

ITSM 7.6.04 SIT:Site related filter SIT:STE:ChkStatusRuleRead_105...

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this and brought this up with BMC Software. It looks like a bug with a filter named SIT:STE:ChkStatusRuleRead_105 that has two Set Fields action. The first Set Field action is fine and is looking for the existing Status integer and character value and

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Arner, Todd
Could you confirm the server is available by opening the server up in Dev Studio? Just a thought. Todd Arner -- The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is intended only for the use of the

Re: Last day last session of Engage

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
If any of you'll are swinging by NYC on the weekend on your way back home, let me know. I live fairly close to NYC and may try to make it there on the weekend for a quick get together. Cheers Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread William Rentfrow
Yes and no. I've seen instances where users are locked up but the admin threads work (and vice versa). So it's not the same test really as connecting as a user. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
This must have been an engaging topic. Cheers Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Blairing Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:38 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary Notes from

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
How about issuing one of the command line utilities to each of the servers such as maybe the arsignal -g that reloads the def cache. If a server is not responding you would get a error 90. I do not remember all the switches to arsignal offhand but there should be one that has less of an impact

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Rick Cook
Good ideas, Joe! Perhaps the arserver -v (or whatever it is now) that returns the version would fit the bill - quick return, confirms that the server is up, and almost zero performance impact. Rick Cook On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: ** How about

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Rob Dudley
I really just wish that when users do become hung, in the load balanced web/server group environment, and it is one of the servers which is unresponsive - that there would be some way that the server group would recognize it and restart the armonitor processes... OR at least place something in the

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 SIT:Site related filter SIT:STE:ChkStatusRuleRead_105...

2014-10-16 Thread Thad Esser
Joe, I just checked our 8.1 no patch system, and it says CTM:Site still. I hadn't noticed it before. Thad On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: ** I was wondering if anyone else had noticed this and brought this up with BMC Software. It looks like a bug

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
Thanks Rick, Almost forgot about the -v option. Yes that would be far quicker than even the user tool. That would be the least of impact. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, October 16,

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
If you are on UNIX or LINUX you might be able to design a cron job that runs every few minutes to do that using the output of arsignal -v. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rob Dudley Sent: Thursday, October 16,

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 SIT:Site related filter SIT:STE:ChkStatusRuleRead_105...

2014-10-16 Thread Joe D'Souza
Just got a response from BMC as well stating the exact same thing that it is so on version 8.x too and that it might be a bug. Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Thad Esser Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 2:33 PM

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Brian Goralczyk
I think the issue is that you are not testing the same process that the users are utilizing. That would increase the chance of false positives. That can be more frustrating than taking the time to do it manually. The best answer that I can see is to write a java program that can run and monitor

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread William Rentfrow
Moot point either way - cron jobs are not allowed on the servers for various reasons. There are other ways of doing it though similar to cron. William Rentfrow wrentf...@stratacominc.com Office: 715-204-3061 or 701-232-5697x25 Cell: 715-498-5056 From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Doug Blair
We do this with a Unix/Linux shell script every minute. Keep a simple log in a plain text file. It notifies via text message if everything isn't perfect. Check the log to see which server didn't respond. We actually test several paths - the status page of the midtiers gives you an end-to-end

Re: Introducing Remedy with Smart IT (and one of those opportunities for remote interaction with Engage)

2014-10-16 Thread Roger Justice
The Demo by Wayne Carter and the under the hood with Tom Adrian at Engage impressed all of the attendees. I want to get a copy into the company I work for to experiment. -Original Message- From: Mueller, Doug doug_muel...@bmc.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tue, Oct 7,

Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread John Baker
The problem is not so much the lack of WUT, with its confused Windows 3.1 UI, but the lack of quality tools within Mid Tier to troubleshoot problems. Everything involves using a workflow console, but John hit the nail on the head, there needs to be a quality user interface that isn't remotely

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread patchsk
We have a midtier hosted under a tomcat not part of the load balancer. So users are not routed to this midtier. We added all individual arsystem nodes to this midtier. That way when you login using this midtier or search for forms you see links for each arsystem node. You can open forms and do

Re: Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread Larry Robinson
Hi William, I too receive problem reports from our Mid-tier users and struggled to determine which server they were connected to. I asked one of my JSP experts to write us a program that could run from the browser that would emit the name and IP of the Tomcat server that was serving the users

Open question to BMC on troubleshooting without the WUT

2014-10-16 Thread John Baker
Larry I wouldn't suggest using that JSP :) It is running a native application (hostname) to get the hostname that is readily available from a Java API call. Running native applications isn't going to do the performance of your Mid Tier any good, and anyone with a copy of wget can almost