Re: Task error - suggestions?

2009-12-04 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
of the task to either Pending or Assigned. NOTE: Be sure to have proper backups when trying custom workflow in case it is found necessary to restore to original state. Anne Ramey From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent

Re: Adding AIE process to armonitor.conf

2009-12-03 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Also, keep in mind if you have any Data Exchanges that run on interval, they will most likely kick off when the service is started. So you would want to take into consideration of doing this during peak usage of the production environment. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst,

Calculating DB size

2009-12-03 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I am trying to estimate DB size growth for a new project which requires about 7000 People records added per year. Anyone have an idea how much space 1 people entry takes up in Remedy ITSM 7.0.3? This would be factoring in the User form record as well. We are running an Oracle 10g DB.

Re: Push Field Question

2009-12-01 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Mark, Not sure if there are any special operators that you can use to truncate based on certain criteria but you could: Make the diary field RO. In order to update the diary field, a button is clicked to open up a dialog. Then you can push the contents of the dialog using your filter and also

Re: ITSM 7.0.3 - Tracking Work Effort

2009-11-25 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
. Good luck. I think you will find that this minor change is well worth the effort. Rod Harris 2009/11/25 Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com: ** All, Here is the dilemma... I'll use Incident Management as an example but really, it affects all modules. 1.   The assignee

ITSM 7.0.3 - Tracking Work Effort

2009-11-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, Here is the dilemma... I'll use Incident Management as an example but really, it affects all modules. 1. The assignee of an incident does some work on the request on week 1. In the work effort, he/she puts in 10 minutes spent. 2. On week 2, the assignee does 20 minutes of work

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-20 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:33 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

RKM 7.2 - Filters that contain web path URL

2009-11-19 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, Having a brain freeze at the moment... Does anyone know the 2 filters in which the RKM web path is stored in? These are the filters that set the server URL... I can't find them.. help! Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure

Re: CMDB Class for SSL Certificates

2009-11-19 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Shawn, Why not go with Document? I'd probably go with that. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, November

Re: Discovery 1.6

2009-11-19 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
My default, the tool will load all CI's into IMPORT.TOPO after you do the CMDB sync. Then, you must run a recon job to merge data into BMC.ASSET. Do you have a support contract with BMC? If so, go to the documentation site or communities. There are a lot of docs and articles that may help you.

Re: CMDB Class for SSL Certificates

2009-11-19 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Carin Grobler Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:59 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: CMDB Class for SSL Certificates ** Shawn, We used Document as well and it works quite well C On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Chowdhury, Tauf

Remedy related Salary Survey data

2009-11-19 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, Can anyone give me insight on what some good resources are to get salary survey data in NY? I'm finding it challenging to get this information when it comes to being related to Remedy Development. Feel free to contact me off-list if needed. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories,

Re: Double-Click to select incident template

2009-11-18 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I would just keep it OOB and have the user Highlight and Select instead of Highlight and Double Click. Selling point? One less mouse click! Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Case Upper or Lower

2009-11-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
We have an Oracle DB and thus, we are case sensitive. Because of this, we've chosen to make any character fields that a user will be doing a lookup on (last name, first name, product name, host name) Upper case. We found that upper case was easier to read as sometimes an l (lower case L) can be

Re: Case Upper or Lower

2009-11-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
-IT ISGS Defense 301-791-3540 Phone 240-291-2467 Cell kevin.beg...@lmco.com From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:11 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Case Upper or Lower ** We

Re: CMDB and Discovery

2009-11-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
If you look at the CI's that you are stating are automatically getting put into BMC.ASSET, do they also exist in IMPORT.TOPO? If so, check your Reconciliation job for Topology Discovery. Look at the last run date. Perhaps you have the recon job running? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories,

Re: RKM 7.5

2009-11-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Carrie R. from BMC is great when it comes to RKM. She definitely knows her stuff. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pat Zandi Sent:

Re: Test post please ignore

2009-11-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Too... much... to think.. about... Must go back.. to... Vegas! Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing Sent: Monday, November 16,

test

2009-10-28 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hmmm is arslist up? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 ** This e-mail and its attachments may contain Forest

Re: AR System Email Messages Form

2009-10-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
What I've seen as the usual suspect is the Email Error Logs form . Depending on what level of logging you have turned on for E-mail messages, that 1 e-mail entry may have 20 entries associated within the error log form. (I may be exaggerating) Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management

Re: AR System Email Messages Form

2009-10-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AR System Email Messages Form I do have over 95,000 items in the email error logs form. Are you saying to delete those out and retry opening the email messages form. JK Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist

Re: ITSM Problem Management Workflow

2009-10-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
We've been using option 2 with the allowance that the Senior/Manager in Service Desk can pick the Assignee/Assignee Group if they know which group should be working on it or if that group is already working on the issue. Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765

Re: SYS:Notification Messages - Strange Behavior

2009-10-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You may have to modify the filters on the NTE control forms. There is a filter guide that goes through and does a translation of multiple fields and if the one you want is not in there, it will not translate properly on the SYS:Notification Messages form. I don't have the time or I would have

Re: SRM

2009-10-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I believe SAM is Asset Management Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:28 AM To:

Re: SYS:Notification Messages - Strange Behavior

2009-10-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Jase, You may have to add the translation in this filter... NTE:SHR:TranslateNotificationMessageTAS_130 Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On

Re: Support Groups in one ITSM Module

2009-10-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Christie, We're experiencing a similar issue and off the top of my head, I've been thinking about modifying the search menus that are used in those modules to exclude the support group that I don't want or vice versa. I haven't tested it yet though and it would be interesting to see what others

Re: Asset Management Software Licensing Issue

2009-10-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Shawn, From an amateur at this (since we are like 2 steps behind you in implementing asset management), you may be able to modify the PDE to look for a specific .exe in 2007 but categorize it as 2010. That way, if you relate that specific PDE to the 2010 contract, the 2007 installs will be

Re: Email Template Question

2009-10-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Mark, Not sure if this would work but did you try moving that field to a section in between 2 fields. Maybe the system would take that into consideration. Not sure though... Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request

Re: Bulk Permission Change....

2009-10-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You can try playing around in CTM:People Permission Groups. I was able to change a bulk load of people. Haven't noticed any weird or unintended issues. Try to log workflow when modifying form the CTM:People with the workflow when you do it manually in the form. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst,

Re: Mid-tier and Scanners

2009-10-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
What kind of interaction are you looking for? Are you looking to just submit requests or do you want to encompass all functions such as Query, Submit, Modify, Delete? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System

Re: BMC Discovery

2009-10-06 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
if you use Telnet your UNIX credentials are being sent unencrypted (in the clear and readable). -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009

Re: Mid tier crashing suddenly with Could not invoke the service() method on servlet ApplicationServlet. Exception thrown : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

2009-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
There's also some posts about memory optimization settings for the mid tier java app. You can do a search on the google group for it. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: BMC Discovery

2009-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
How are you running the UNIX discovery? Are you using telnet or SSH? If you are using telnet and your UNIX admins have disabled that and only allow SSL connections, then you will not be able to discover those hosts. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765

Re: BMC Discovery

2009-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
When you say BMC Discovery... are you talking about BMC Foundation/Topology Discovery? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Morris

Re: BMC Discovery

2009-10-05 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
What version are you on? You should be able to see it when you set up a Discovery Task. So back to my original question… does your UNIX team block telnet connections and only allow SSH? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779

Re: test

2009-09-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
The force is nonexistent within you... Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Darrell Reading Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:20 PM To:

CMDB 2.1 / Config Discovery integration - Pull_keys

2009-09-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi, Anyone know what the point of having the pull_keys data exchanges are? In the CDI integration, there is the pull_ars_inv_machine data exchange. However, there is a corresponding pull_keys_ars_inv_machine. They have different settings and I am not sure if I even need to have the pull_keys

Friday Humor: BMC Remedy Spelling Fail

2009-09-18 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
FYI... AR7.1 and ITSM 7.0.3... Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 ** This e-mail and its attachments may

Re: Friday Humor: BMC Remedy Spelling Fail

2009-09-18 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Southern Union From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:51 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Friday Humor: BMC Remedy Spelling Fail

Re: INCREASED COMPENSATION-Remedy Engineer/Admin for IRAQ

2009-09-18 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: 16 September 2009 22:43 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: INCREASED COMPENSATION-Remedy Engineer/Admin for IRAQ ** Yeah… Camel Spiders are pretty much the equivalent of the hatchling

CMDB 2.1 - Pretty basic question

2009-09-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi all, I'm getting conflicting statements so I wanted to put it out there to you all. Environment in question: BMC Config Discovery (Marimba) , CMDB 2.1, AR7.1, iTSM 7.0.3 Scenario: 1. BMC CD discovers 20 machines that have Product X installed. 2. AIE job runs to pull in the

Re: CMDB 2.1 - Pretty basic question

2009-09-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: CMDB 2.1 - Pretty basic question On Thursday 17 September 2009 15:45:37 Chowdhury, Tauf wrote: Hi all, I'm getting conflicting statements so I wanted to put it out there to you all. Environment in question: BMC

Re: INCREASED COMPENSATION-Remedy Engineer/Admin for IRAQ

2009-09-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yeah... Camel Spiders are pretty much the equivalent of the hatchling from the Alien movies in real life... Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On

Re: Deleting Demo account (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-09-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yeah in my environment, I have an admin account for myself and also a user account like any other support person. I figured that for day to day, I can use the support account so if any issues come up, I might see them before an end user does. Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management

Re: REMEDY SERVER DOWN... and not able to restart

2009-09-02 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Did you make sure you can establish a connection with the Database? Sometimes backup jobs or space issues will hang up the DB. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: ITSM 7 Incident Templates

2009-09-02 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Also remember when modifying incident templates, go in through the APP ADMIN CONSOLE Custom Config. For some reason, opening the Incident Template form directly does funky things... Make sure that you have all the support groups that should have access to it in the Authored for Groups table.

DSL Install files for CMDB 2.1, Asset Management 7.0.3

2009-08-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Wow, I have been through a week and a half of trying to find out how to download DSL install files with BMC support. Can anyone on here tell me how/where to download this with the new website format they have? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management

Re: DSL Install files for CMDB 2.1, Asset Management 7.0.3

2009-08-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Management 7.0.3 ** Try the patch page? Rick From: Chowdhury, Tauf Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:30:27 -0400 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: DSL Install files for CMDB 2.1, Asset Management 7.0.3 Wow, I have been through a week and a half of trying to find out

Re: Users unable to log in (ARERR 90)

2009-08-06 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Sue, Is your environment load balanced? Any info on the architecture would help. 1 mid tier + 1 AR? 2+2? Also, on the affected machines, (assuming they are running windows) when you try the connection via the ethernet cable, can you first open up a command prompt? Right after hitting OK, type

Re: Business Objects XI Premium R2 SP2 as a signle engine for both Analytics and Mid-Tier

2009-07-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Kelly, I am a customer that you mentioned that has installed BOXI as part of the BMC Analytics install. With that scenario, if I upgraded the OEM version to Premium, could I then use that platform for MID-TIER reporting? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765

Discussion Topic: ITSM 7.0.3 running on AR 7.5?

2009-07-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
So I wanted to put this out there to see if anyone has done it or has any comments. If an organization is running AR 7.1 with ITSM 7.0.3 and wants to upgrade, would it be possible to upgrade AR to 7.5 and keep 7.0.3 on it? The reason being that the amount of time required to train people on 7.5

Re: What's the difference between a Remedy Administrator and a Remedy Developer?

2009-07-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Don't forget Remedy Engineer! Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:47 PM To:

ARS 7.1 , ITSM 7.0.3 p7, Help File Location issue

2009-07-10 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi all, I have an issue where the help file URL location in SHARE APPLICATION PROPERTIES is incorrect. For example, the location for Incident Management is: http://midtier/arserver/BMCRemedy_IM http://%3cmidtier%3e/%3carserver%3e/BMCRemedy_IM Is this correct? For me, going to this URL of

Re: Robert02 Kern is out of the office.

2009-07-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Maybe he went on vacation to the island from LOST... Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of copits.rich...@bwc.state.oh.us

Re: Robert02 Kern is out of the office.

2009-07-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Joe, What would we do without you? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:30 AM To:

Re: Robert02 Kern is out of the office.

2009-07-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Cmon Joe… typing the statement “3 miles” is not the same as actually run/walking them! lol Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Joe

Remedy User Tool, Admin Tool

2009-07-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi, I'm trying to download the WUT 7.1 package from BMC's site. So with the new site layout, I need to add the products that I own to my profile. I did so. However, now when I try to download, I can't find the WUT as a downloadable option. Am I missing something here? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest

Re: Remedy User Tool, Admin Tool

2009-07-08 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Nevermind... I found it... Doh! Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:27 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: Remedy User Tool, Admin Tool Hi, I'm trying to download

OT: Notifier Log

2009-07-06 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
: Notifier Log ** It's 100,000. It's in common use in India - along with doing the needful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh Cheers, Ben From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: July 2

OT: Notifier Log

2009-07-02 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I haven't seen/heard the word lakh in years! If I remember correctly, that represents thousand? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Is there a way around requiring a 3rd Tier Product Category

2009-07-01 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
John, I think disabling the 3rd tier will require a lot of different pieces to be customized. I would suggest auto filling the 1st tier with a constant, and hiding it perhaps if it is such an issue. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779

Re: Is there a way around requiring a 3rd Tier Product Category

2009-07-01 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Rune's got a point... if they are picky about this issue, they're in for a world o hurt! J Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rune

Mid Tier 7.1 p2 + Firefox 3.5

2009-07-01 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Anyone noticing that whenever the mid tier displays a message box or calendar box or anything that fades out the form underneath, is now solid BLACK instead of the transparency? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure Office:

Re: export AP:Form, AP:Process, AP:Role From BMC Remedy User

2009-06-30 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Krishna, If I understand what you're asking, you are going to the individual forms, AP:Form, AP:Process, AP:Role and doing a search on that form. Then you want to export those records. In order to export those records, you have to Shift-select all those records that you want, and then go to

Re: OT: Friday Humor

2009-06-15 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
My addition would be: You actually say LOL in a conversation. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meyer, Jennifer L Sent: Monday,

Re: Asset Management - Creating CI for Network Equipment

2009-06-12 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
to. Lyle From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:53 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Asset Management - Creating CI for Network Equipment ** What is the best method for using Asset

Asset Management - Creating CI for Network Equipment

2009-06-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
What is the best method for using Asset Management to create CI's such as Network Equipment etc... ? In CMDB there are different forms for a plethora of network equipment but in Asset, under CI Type, there is a very limited set of data. Any suggestions? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest

Re: Asset Management - Creating CI for Network Equipment

2009-06-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:53 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Asset Management - Creating CI for Network Equipment ** What is the best method for using Asset Management to create CI's such as Network Equipment etc

Re: User tool and Service Request Management 2.1 expand box issue

2009-06-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Have you tried this from the User tool on a different machine? Could be a local machine cache issue. Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Cyclomatic Complexity

2009-05-15 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yeah.. looks like the side view of a stick figure walking to me... O | O |\ OO |/ O Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Tony

ITSM 7.0.3 - Incident/Change error message.

2009-05-12 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I am seeing the following error repeatedly in arerror.log: 390603 : The value(s) for this entry violate a unique index that has been defined for this form : NTE:SYS-Group NT Control entry:NTG00123574 fields: 100205 179 (ARERR 382) Those 2 fields are Ticket Request ID and

Re: ITSM 7 Product Names for Help Desk redirected or misdirected calls

2009-05-12 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Peter, I think you're really dealing with 2 things. We have run into that issue here as well. So your 1st issue is: Categorizing things like, inquiry, call transfer, etc... For that, we use Operational Cats. Tier 1 = Service Desk, Tier 2 = Call Transfer, Tier 2 = Inquiry, Tier 2 = Vendor

CMDB / Asset CI - Templates for documenting CI's

2009-05-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I am trying to provide different business groups a template/spreadsheet for listing out their devices with the config information that they know about it. We are currently in process of rolling out server/network discovery tools but want to manually load Server/Network CI's. We already

Re: Question on NTE:NotificationMessages

2009-05-06 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Dave, If memory serves correct, you can do the following to see which filters are involved. Open up admin tool and filter forms by prefix NTE Look at a Filter guide called NTE:SHR:TranslateMessages (or something like that). It has a list of around 40 filters that do the translations for each

Re: Remedy Email Engine not polling inbound emails

2009-04-28 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
There's been a bunch of ARSLIST posts regarding this issue recently so if you search the Google group for it, you should find a lot of info about troubleshooting and optimization as well. Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original

Re: Discovered bug with RKM 7.2

2009-04-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Peter, I just confirmed your findings. I am on RKM7.2 with the latest patch. If there is no carriage return, the fields populate on the mid tier. If there is, NULL! Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System

Re: CRITICAL:URGENT: ARSystem is taking 20 mins to start

2009-04-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
If the remote DB is Oracle, I think it is a known issue for AR7.1 and ITSM due to the 100 record chunking that is done. Our service takes about 7-10 minutes to startup and we've accepted this as normal. It does not affect ticket creation and things like that. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service

Re: ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks

2009-04-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:16 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks ** Hi all, I am running ITSM 7 patch 8

ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks

2009-04-21 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi all, I am running ITSM 7 patch 8. The parallel post about Task Management automation triggered me posting this issue and if anyone has some ideas, that would be awesome. Basically, the issue is this: User is in the process of creating Incident/Change request. They add tasks either

Re: Incoming email process issue

2009-04-20 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Jerry, Have you logged into the mailbox outside of Remedy and confirmed that there are no stuck messages in there? That happened to me twice and I had to move/delete all the e-mails from the actual Exchange mailbox out of the Inbox and then I restarted the e-mail engine. This resolved the issue

Re: Custom Approval Question

2009-04-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Shawn, Did you make your new field visible on all the AP join forms with Change? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn

Re: Friday Humor: Etiquette Question: Is Fat Client offensive?

2009-04-17 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You're all size queens! Have a good weekend lol Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 3:32 PM To:

Re: Etiquette Question: Is Fat Client offensive?

2009-04-16 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Why is it FAT client? Why couldn't it be Chubby Client or Portly Client or even Big Boned Client? :) Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Change Manager Role in Change Management 7

2009-04-15 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
From reading through what you are doing at a high level, I would configure it as such: Give your assignees the Change Manager Role. Make the testers the Change Assignee. Then configure your Approval Mappings that sends an approval to the Change Assignee group. What you are doing would work

Business Hours within ITSM 7.0.3, ARS 7.1

2009-04-14 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, Can someone provide some more detailed info or any best practices for configuring Business Hours and times for ITSM? Is there a global setting for Business Time? In the Config Guide, it states that the Business Hours must be set for each individual support group. Also, Once the time

Re: Tasks not being activated properly

2009-03-31 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Anne, I'm experiencing this issue as well but have not had time to research it. The cause that I have found though is this: 1. There are 5 tasks sequenced in order, 1,2,3,4,5 2. Before the Change hits the Scheduled/Implementation stage, the assignee cancels the task in sequence 3

Re: Email Restriction - ARS 7.1 Patch 005

2009-03-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Todd, I think your issue might be the java heap size. The following will show you how to increase the # of threads used to 4. You can try the following (assuming windows here): 1. Open up the registry and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesBMC Remedy Email

Re: ARS 7.5 Remedy Host ID changes after reboot

2009-03-18 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Can your server team confirm if those are valid MAC addresses for any other machines? Also, if you are on a load balanced environment, are you logging in to the load balancer name or the server directly? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779

RKM 7.2 and ITSM 7.0.3 Problem Mgmnt Integration

2009-03-10 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Hi all, So we've installed RKM 7.2 with the latest patch and all the integration pieces that go along with it like hiding the OOB solution table from incident and service request and all that jazz. However, I am trying to get an idea of how others are dealing with the OOB Problem Management

Re: artask and vista

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Install Windows 7 :D Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 3:08 PM

BMC Service Request Management - Opinions

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I just wanted some feedback and opinions from some of you 'seasoned veterans' and your implementation of SRM. Good? Bad? Ugly? Any info you can/want to share is great. Thanks. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Informatics-Infrastructure Office:

Re: Remedy SSO Integration - Logout Issue

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Matthew, I'm confused. It seems like SSO is working if they can log back in just by typing the URL or clicking Return to Home Page. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Correct me if I'm wrong but the following would probably work for you: 1. Take all of your non-support end users and mark them unrestricted access and/or create an escalation to populate CTM:peoplepermission groups with company memberships for all the companies you have. 2. Your

Re: Version 7 Permissions Model

2009-02-27 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Yes, so in that case, what about just adding the end users to each company. If they are end user's, they most likely won't have permissions to search incidents anyway since they are non-support. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779

Re: ARS 7.1 server group issue

2009-02-24 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Anthony, Have you named only 1 server as the server that you allow Admin Operations on? Have you disabled it on the other servers? Also, I would confirm on the rankings form that you have it setup properly. Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765

Re: Not millennium, but better...

2009-02-13 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
World had to end sooner or later... Tauf Chowdhury  Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Friday, February 13,

Re: ITSM Support Group Roles Help

2009-02-11 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I have seen some canned reports in the BMC Analytics tool that actually look at the different Tiers of support for reporting. I think 1 report would show information to the effect of Incidents that were escalated beyond Help Desk, so it would look at all support groups listed Tier 1-3... Hope

Re: Somebody please run this ITSM 7 report for me

2009-02-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Rabi, Here's the qualification I ran on that canned report (in user tool): ('100560' = 02/01/09 12:00:00 AM AND '100560' = 02/09/09 5:43:53 PM) It returned 2138 records and it took 1 minute, 12 seconds. Work info IS included in my system. I am currently in the same building as the

Re: Resolved: Tomcat Settings for ARS 7.1

2009-02-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
I'll have to disagree with you on the Mid Tier not working on any drive but the C drive. Our environment is setup where the C partition is used only for OS Data and the D partition is where all the app installs are done. In our environment, the midtier and tomcat are installed on the D partition.

Re: Somebody please run this ITSM 7 report for me

2009-02-09 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
slowness in my setup compared to yours, that accounts for all or a big part of the report slowness here? Thanks a lot for trying this out for me. --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com wrote: From: Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com Subject: Re: Somebody please run

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