Re: People large data imports

2007-10-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We did this at one client I was working in, whose name will be withheld for various reasons. We had all the data in another database, but like you've run into, we didn't have the time to get all the data in within a timely manner. So we used ARSPerl to create and run multiple perl scripts that

Change Management Approval Reporting

2007-10-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, Right now I'm tasked with coming up with a good way to make sure our Change Management application fits with our SOX process so we can pass audits. I am having difficulty in guaranteeing approvals, though. For our SOX process, we need to demonstrate that we have 1) Business

Re: Competitors to Remedy ARS?

2007-10-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Perhaps you should give more requirements. You mentioned that you want something like ARS, but don't really care about ITSM or any specific type of module. It sounds like you're wanting to build custom database driven applications, right? If so, rather than looking at something like Remedy,

Re: CMDB2 - what class for network hardware?

2007-10-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We're just planning to use Computer System for almost everything networking related. We will just use different categorizations to track it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Covert, Jack

Re: Page Holder tab headers won't go back to being on one row

2007-09-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If this is on the full client but not the mid tier, I've a similar problem and BMC opened it as a Defect. The only difference is that in my case, I can get it to go back to one row, but it pushes all the fields on all the pages down in order to accommodate the row that is no longer there.

Re: Mysterious Midtier Error

2007-09-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Are they the only two users on that location? I would suggest using a different tool like webex, adobe connect, windows live, landesk, etc. to watch what they are doing. Also some other things would be to have them log in with different accounts and try different PCs. You should try logging in

Re: OT -- Sort Of: Computerworld reports on ITIL

2007-09-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
ITIL was around before SOX, and the two barely have anything in common. Where SOX and ITIL overlap is in the approval for changes and monitoring SOX-related assets for unauthorized changes. The only reason there is any overlap is because ITIL gives you guidelines on how to do change management.

Re: Remedy KM underTomcat

2007-09-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I ran into a similar problem and I can't recall the exact solution. The error in my case occurred because of some customizing I did of Tomcat. Jim Davis at BMC Support was able to help me fix the problems, so you might want to call BMC Support and try to get your ticket opened with him. Shawn

Re: RE : Re: rebuilding a dev environment

2007-09-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The way I generally do it is to restore the development database from the last production backup, and run a stored procedure that searches the entire ARSystem database (SQL Server 2005 in this case) and replaces the production server name with the development server name, since ITSM seems to

Re: Goodbye and thanks for the ride.

2007-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I just checked it out, and it looks like whoever made it simply modified one of those Open Source forum applications and changed the name. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

ITSM ODBC Error

2007-09-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon all. I have an issue that I've had open with BMC Support for a few months now and have never made any progress on. Basically, when I try to run any reports out of the 7.0 user tool that makes use of the ODBC connection (basically all of the out of the box reports), I get the

Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count.

2007-09-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Warren, I don't have a lot of trouble getting U.S. support people assigned to my tickets, but the problem I do have is that there are too few of them. Whenever I have ITSM errors it gets assigned to the same few people. I would not be surprised if there are only four people supporting ITSM 7 at

Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count.

2007-09-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've looked into the Microsoft products, and I seriously doubt that they will be able to compete with ITSM. Microsoft's focus is more on monitoring changes than the actual change management process. I suspect that they might end up being ok for server changes, but they won't be able to handle

Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count.

2007-09-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I wouldn't say that we're a dying breed as much as we're being pushed to extinction by BMC. What is really bad about this is that ITSM 7 is not that great of a product and has destroyed a lot of good will that has been built up by people used to homegrown and third party ARS applications. There

Re: Running mid-tier reports on Business Objects Enterprise server

2007-09-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We're trying to get it to work, but BMC's documentation is terrible. As a result, we don't have it up and running yet. Part of this is my fault since I've been swamped with work and it hasn't been my top priority, but we have a Business Objects consultant that has been working on it for months

Re: OT:Remedy Recruiters

2007-09-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think Kelly is looking for a recruiter that specifically finds Remedy people, rather than one who does a little of everything and ends up wasting time by floating bad resumes around. Many times when you are trying to hire someone, you end up being given dozens of resumes of people that know

Re: RESOLVED: Server Name Config Question (ITSM 7)

2007-08-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When I had that issue, BMC support had me add both to the mid-tier configuration. You would think that they would use whatever you supply rather than the FQDN, but perhaps that's yet another feature recently added. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: BMC's Web Based ITIL Training Course vs Others'

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I took one at a local vendor here in Houston and it was pretty good. It was a 2.5 day course, where the last day had the exam prior to lunch. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray T.

Operational Categorizations

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, We've had a meeting and the management wants to consider reversing the Operational Categorizations. It doesn't really make sense to me, but I thought I'd post it here and see if anyone else has done it, and if so, what ramifications you've run into. In the normal way that BMC

Re: BMC's Web Based ITIL Training Course vs Others'

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't know if this is done for everyone, but our BMC sales rep arranged for the I.T. management of my company to get the flight simulation portion free. It doesn't hurt that we're up the street from BMC's headquarters, but they might be able to arrange something like that. ITIL doesn't work if

Re: BMC's Web Based ITIL Training Course vs Others'

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:34 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC's Web Based ITIL Training Course vs Others' ** I don't know if this is done for everyone

Re: Operational Categorizations

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
the details of the hardware/software being installed/fixed, etc. Rick From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:08 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: BMC's Web Based ITIL Training Course vs Others'

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
sales guy, but he refused to give me any real details. He just kept saying, It's great...it's great. You've GOT to do it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:50 AM

JOB: Remedy Admin/Developer in Houston, TX

2007-08-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This isn't an official announcement coming out of HR at my company, but I was told that I can post it on the ARSlist by my manager. **PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. CLICK THE LINK BELOW** We're looking for a full time Remedy Administrator/Developer that can help support ITSM

ITSM 7 OOtB emails

2007-08-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, I've been looking into the proper way to modify OOtB emails with ITSM 7. Specifically, I want to add some additional fields to the emails that aren't sent by default. I tried going into SYS:Form Field Selection and added a variable, for example Phone Number, from the Incident

Re: ITSM 7 OOtB emails

2007-08-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:57 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7 OOtB emails ** Good morning folks, I've been looking into the proper way to modify OOtB emails

Re: orphaned tasks

2007-08-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've done it for Change Requests on SQL Server 2005. If you're using Oracle, just make whatever necessary modifications to this: select t.task_id , t.rootrequestid, t.assignee_group, t.assignee, t.summary, t.notes from tms_task t left join chg_infrastructure_change c on c.request_id =

Remedy workflow modification auditing

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, Let's say, hypothetically, that you work in an environment with an OOTB ITSM 7 environment, and you have been given a directive to not modify any OOTB workflow without getting prior approvals from all I.T. directors as well as the VP over I.T., plus you have to document things

Re: Remedy workflow modification auditing

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
/20/07, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good morning all, Let's say, hypothetically, that you work in an environment with an OOTB ITSM 7 environment, and you have been given a directive to not modify any OOTB workflow without getting

Re: Remedy workflow modification auditing

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Parrish IT Prophets, LLC (770) 653-5203 http://www.itprophets.com http://www.itprophets.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, August

Re: Remedy workflow modification auditing

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 8/20/07, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good morning all, Let's say, hypothetically, that you work in an environment with an OOTB ITSM

Re: URL

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Roy, Your ar.cfg or ar.conf file needs a line added or modified (depending on whether you added it before) that says: Notification-Web-Path: https://your-server/arsys -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Remedy and Resource 25 Crystal Reports incompatability

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I get this same error and BMC is working on it, but there is no resolution. They can't reproduce this error, and even on some of the machines in my office we don't get the error. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

SOLVED: Remedy workflow modification auditing

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I just found out that the hypothetical Remedy admin will no longer be working here soon, so there will not be a problem anymore. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Private and confidential as detailed a href=http://www.sug.com/disclaimers/default.htm#Mail;here/a. If you cannot access hyperlink, please

Re: Remedy and Resource 25 Crystal Reports incompatability

2007-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:48:22 -0500 From: Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remedy and Resource 25 Crystal Reports incompatability To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG I get this same error and BMC is working on it, but there is no resolution. They can't reproduce this error, and even on some

Re: URGENT - ITSM 7 performance issue - help needed

2007-08-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Turn on your SQL logging and try running the SQL that is generated in Toad (just select statements, not updates or inserts.) In the past I've found that there can be table scans that are major performance hits that way. The resolution ends up being adding more indexes or changing the criteria

Re: Authentication problem in Remedy LDAP for passwords with special characters.

2007-08-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've had no problem with special characters on Windows platforms with Active Directory as the LDAP server, either via the User Tool or the Mid Tier. My first guess would be that it may be Remedy's plugin to Novell being the problem. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From:

Re: Discovery tools

2007-08-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The BMC tools are the easiest to work with from the Remedy Admin/Developer perspective, but they may not be what the rest of I.T. wants. If you already own LANDesk, SMS, or something else you might want to consider integrating with those instead, even though it would be more work. For example,

ITSM Defect: Tasks can be created without saving Change Requests

2007-08-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon folks, I'm on ARS 7.0.1 and ITSM 7.0.2 patch 4 and have found a bug that is causing us some problems. Basically, under at least two scenarios, my users can (and do) create Tasks that are not associated with any parent record, such as a Change Request. Has anyone else run into

Re: Database restore from Production server to Newly built Test Server

2007-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would also run a stored procedure to find and replace all occurrences of the production servername once you make the move. I found the stored procedure on this site to be helpful with that: http://vyaskn.tripod.com/sql_server_search_and_replace.htm Just be careful because if that server is in

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
on daily basis. i.e Update the information for the existing users if there is any change Create new users On Aug 1, 9:07 am, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Srikanth, The good thing about the staging form is that you can push to it from anywhere. Using the flat file or csv the first

Re: JRE Requirement for ARS Server?

2007-08-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you run the AR Email Engine on that server, you will need it. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thad K Esser Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: ITSM 7.0 bug.

2007-08-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
George, There is a similar bug with the OOB Change Approval Process. BMC knows about this and has a workaround, but the result is that one of the OOB approvals gives you a No Matches Found error from an AL. You're probably ok if you don't use the OOB approvals, but if you do, you have to be

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It depends on what level of import you require. If you just want to import all People data but don't care about users being set up and such, then you'll only need to import to CTM:People. However, if you want to set up Support Staff, you'll also need the User form, the Support Groups form, and

Re: Import of People data into ITSM 7

2007-08-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
into a staging form where all the authentication of the data would be done 3) Push the data from the staging form to People and CTM:People form. Any suggestions/improvements to the above are welcome. All your imputs would be very valuable and helpful for me. On Aug 1, 8:23 am, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL

How to delay a change fields

2007-07-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, I'm trying to fix the ITSM 7.0 Change Request module's approvers tab. When you add an approver, you have to manually hit the Refresh button, which often leads my users to believe that the approver was not added. In normal circumstances, the way you fix this is by setting up

Re: How to delay a change fields

2007-07-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 7/30/07, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good morning folks, I'm trying to fix the ITSM 7.0 Change Request module's

Re: How to delay a change fields

2007-07-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
an approach that might work for you. -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap Pick two. On 7/30/07, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carey, I've thought

Re: Say what about that knowledge base?

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I find that the Mid Tier works better with Firefox than with IE, but since KM Experts is not part of Remedy, maybe the original design was IE only. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shellman,

Re: Remedy Helpdesk: Bringing up SHR:People fields in HPD:Helpdesk

2007-07-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The best way to do it, for me, is to disable the out of the box workflow, make a copy with a prefix that makes it easier to find, then modify the copies. That way you can customize the out of the box workflow, but not have your customizations completely trashed in an upgrade. -Original

Re: BMC Remedy AR System Web Client Survey

2007-07-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
David, I think you are asking the wrong questions in your survey. It's not so much that we want new features added to the products, but rather that we want stability, consistency, and ease of use. This applies to the mid tier, email, the ITSM modules, etc. It would be nice if BMC would take

Re: BMC Remedy AR System Web Client Survey

2007-07-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Also from a Remedy Administrator perspective, it's less work to maintain. When a new ARS patch comes out, you upgrade your mid tier server and the client side is done. When you have the WUT, not only do you have to make sure that they are installed (the overlap with your first point) but you

Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced I was part of the team which implemented CSS at bmc. Regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 9:06 PM

Re: Resolved time of Tickets

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I had a similar issue in 6.3 across the various latter patch levels, but haven't seen it in 7.0. There was never any resolution that I was aware of either. Maybe it is a return of the Pentium bug. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Remedy and Programming Languages

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It depends on what you plan to do. Since my company is a big Microsoft shop, it makes sense to know VB.NET here, but when I've worked at other places that use Unix and Oracle, you have more possibilities. Perl is a good option in those cases because ARSPerl makes it easy to interact with Remedy.

Re: Remedy and Security

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Marc, Be sure to install Remedy as a non-root user, which is documented by BMC. That will address some of your security concerns. Also on the DB side make sure that ARAdmin only has access to the ARSystem database or whatever else it needs, rather than sa access. Also with arcache, if your

Re: Remedy and Security

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The problem is that with that you can still run a command to delete the Remedy directory, for example. One company I worked at had command line notifications going out via a run process from the work log. At times when unix issues were being worked on, we would have weird problems with our

Re: Remedy and Security

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
colors. It focused primarily on security permissions, and the ability to create user accounts without permissions, the two points you stated below. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson

Re: List of users in a group

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you're using ITSM 7 you can use CTM:People Permission Groups, although if you add permissions via the User form they won't show up there. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Durrant, Michael M. -

Re: SLM 7.0.3 on Windows 2K3 SP2 on a remote MS-2K5 SP2 database

2007-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We were missing some lines in the config files after installing the ITSM apps as well, and support had us add those lines manually. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent:

Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced

2007-07-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would add that a big problem with this is that ITSM 7 is extremely buggy, harder to use than previous versions, and extremely expensive. AR System development is what kept Remedy alive, and by de-emphasizing the strong point of Remedy, I see AR System and ITSM usage declining in the future.

Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced

2007-07-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
, partners win, and ARS fanatics - well - they stay fanatics (and the ARS world does not die)) -John On 7/20/07, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I would add that a big problem with this is that ITSM 7 is extremely buggy, harder to use than

Re: BUW 2007 Track Sessions Announced

2007-07-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. 4) A powerhouse like Microsoft enters the fray and wins the lion's share of the ITSM market. 5) And where does that leave ARS...? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn

Re: JOB posting ; An urgent need for Remedy Developer/Engineer for deployment to IRAQ

2007-07-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I just wanted to get my two cents in on the job posting before anyone else gets upset. Does the job posting in Iraq require ITIL, RAC, and sniper certification? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry

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2007-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I've been looking into how the Approval Central form works, because I will either have to customize it or come up with a better console that still leverages BMC's Approval Engine. In looking at the table field, I see it building a qualification, then running it through a run

Re: Examples of Product and Operational Categorization

2007-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Jack, I think that's not a bad idea. However, also keep in mind that if you use the DSL, it adds over ten thousand product categorizations that you will probably want to disable. Also in my experience, the product categorization part is easy. It's just a list of all services, hardware,

Re: Bug with AR System email engine V7.0.1 P3

2007-07-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Ian, Thanks for mentioning this. Unfortunately my company has suffered from this as well, so I'll try reverting back to patch 2. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Trimnell Sent:

Approval Engine Issues

2007-07-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Here is a list of the issues I've encountered with the Approval Engine. - When users try to approve a change from the Change Request they sometimes get The Approve functionality is not available under your current access permission of the change request. (ARERR 44845) BMC told me that we should

Re: Approval Engine Issues (Two issues are resolved)

2007-07-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
fine. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 07/10/2007 10:38 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject

Re: Approval Engine Issues (Two issues are resolved)

2007-07-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd flip on a log, examine the filter doing the set fields. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 07/10/2007 02:43 PM Please respond

Re: Quickstart Standard Edition Datalink for BMC Remedy ITSM

2007-07-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Is this the same tool that BMC Professional Services uses? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Chen Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

ITSM Notification Attachments

2007-07-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, Does anyone know if there is a way, without changing the workflow, to not send artask attachments from ITSM 7.0? Is this a configuration setting somewhere? Thanks, Shawn Pierson 5444 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX 77056 (713)989-7226 The information in this e-mail, and any

Re: ITSM Notification Attachments

2007-07-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
filters relating to NTE:NTS:Email_200_SystemNT suppress the notifications that you want. To get what you want, you are going to have to modify the filter. John Rosquist Windward CG - Original Message From: Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Norm, The easiest way I can think of off hand is to create companies of those independent business units. If the organization you're talking about is large enough it would probably be best to have multiple ITSM installations on multiple servers, and use DSO to push between the different

Re: Multitenancy in a Large Enterprise

2007-06-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When you go into a company's configuration, on the Advanced tab you can set up multiple tiers for the companies, although I'm not sure what that does. If you have ITSM 7 installed, go to the Application Administration Console, select one of the companies you created, and click View. Look at the

Re: ARS 7.01 P3 : Again issues ?

2007-06-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm running patch 3 in a similar environment to you, except using Tomcat instead of Newatlanta, and I'm able to log in ok and all of the apps work as expected so far. I wouldn't necessarily suggest moving from ServletExec to Tomcat in production if you're already using it, but that might be a

Re: Customer versus Contact

2007-06-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We don't use contact unless the customer is someone like an executive that has their assistant handle everything, who gets listed as the contact. It's more of an optional thing for the situations where people are unable to be reached for their own tickets. -Original Message-

Re: Tenancy mode

2007-06-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Roseta, I believe the answer to your question about the unknown users are those who log in that are not listed in the People data. For example, if you have the system set to allow guest users, it should let them still request things if you have single tenancy set. This is useful if you don't

Re: SOS From A novice to ARSystem

2007-06-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you are on ITSM 7.0, you should go to the Application Administration Console. From there, it will show you a list of things you need to configure, including users. The reason I suggest you start there is because the proper way to set up the users requires they have a People record as well,

Crystal Report Error

2007-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, When attempting to run a report out of the full client in 7.0, I get the following error: An error occurred while generating the Crystal report: 0x80004003 - Invalid pointer (ARERR 1904) Any ideas on what this is and how to fix it? The BMC knowledgebase is useless for this

SOLVED: Crystal Report Error

2007-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You all are correct. Reinstalling the WUT seemed to help. The information in this e-mail, and any files transmitted with it, is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary or privileged information. If you are not an

Re: parsing email subject line to create/update tickets

2007-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Rick, For certain things it does seem like it would make sense. I can think of two scenarios where you would want this: 1) Email Approvals. Let the approver simply respond with Approve or Reject in the body and leave it at that. The system can be case insensitive and drop off the d or ed

Re: Is the Support Site Knowledge Base Down?

2007-06-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Joe, It's not working for me either and the rest of the support site is ok. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Bucci Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Is the Support Site

Troubleshooting SLM 7.0

2007-06-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, I'm having issues with SLM, and it looks like BMC Support has decided that my issue is too difficult to work on or something as they haven't responded to me for a few weeks now so I turn to the ARSlist for help. Basically, I'm trying to create Service Targets for Incidents.

Re: include a blank value at the top of an 'on search' menu

2007-06-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would just add a record that has a value of something like CLEAR so it shows up at the top of the list, and when a user selects that value in the menu, you kick off an Active Link on Menu Choice that sets the field to $NULL$. This prevents you from adding a Clear button to the form and taking

Re: BMC Discovery Tool

2007-06-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It depends. If you're using the CMDB, then it might be worth looking into. If you're not using the CMDB, I wouldn't even consider the BMC Discovery Suite. Additionally, I would look into other vendors that your company may already use and see if they have an interface. If you're running SMS,

Re: BMC Rant

2007-06-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I agree completely with what you've written, and I've had to deal with pretty much everything you wrote here within the past few months. I've got a high priority ticket open right now that I haven't heard from BMC support in a few days now, despite updating the ticket asking for a call. On the

Re: ITSM 7.x Data Migration

2007-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's pretty easy for what my company's needs are. BMC will provide you with license keys specifically for DR if you ask for them. Additionally, all you really need to do is get AR System installed on the backup server, then copy over the ITSM files (alternatively, you can install the ITSM suite

People population

2007-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I'm looking for an easier way to populate permission groups and licenses for users in ITSM 7.0. In the past it was easy just to copy one person's permissions to another in the User form, but with the added CTM:People Permission Groups form in the way, among other things, I'm not

Re: Design???? Feature??? Oversight?? Bug?

2007-06-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Joe, In some cases, the oversights of BMC in this release of ITSM are so huge that you have no choice but to customize things to some degree. While best practice is to avoid directly touching the OOTB forms, there are some important customizations you have to make. For example, we had to change

Re: Question: Enhancements with the big wow factor

2007-06-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Dan, In my experience, you most impress management with items that deal with communicating things. They will not be all that impressed if you are able to do something that makes the CMDB return results three times faster. What impresses them are things relating to notifications, reporting, and

Re: ITSM 7.0 Group Email Paging

2007-06-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7.0 Group Email Paging ** Good afternoon folks, In my current

ITSM 7.0 Group Email Paging

2007-06-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon folks, In my current homegrown app, on our assignment groups, we have a field that I use for group emails and group pagers. All of our pagers are email compatible, so I just use the normal email engine to send them. In ITSM 7.0, the pager section requires you to set up some

Re: Working Contracts

2007-06-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I was working as a consultant for a while and it was great. You generally get better organized, bigger projects to be on where full-time work often ends up being admin work. As far as the durations are concerned, rarely do 3 - 6 month projects remain 3 - 6 months. For some reason Remedy is one

CI based approvals

2007-05-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, I don't recall seeing anything specific to this before on the list and wanted to bring it up for advice. In our current homegrown system, I built an application that is similar to Asset Management that I call Application Inventory. In it, there is a list of applications, a

Re: Active Directory People Info 7.0

2007-04-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The way I did it was to use a vendor form to access the Active Directory server, then use Escalations to move the data into the appropriate forms. However, if you just need it for a lookup you can still do a Set Fields to bring data from a Vendor Form. Shawn Pierson -Original

ITSM 7.0 SLAs

2007-04-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, This should be a simple question. We have the ITSM suite, but installed SLM last. What I am curious about is if there was supposed to be standard out of the box SLAs that apply to Incidents, Changes, etc. or if that has to all be built manually. I could have swore that it

FW: Remedy Developer Position

2007-04-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I am forwarding this along for a friend. It is a full-time position. If you're interested, contact Joon Hahn at the email address below. I'm not involved with the process, just forwarding it to the list as a favor for someone who isn't signed up, so any emails sent to me about it will be in

Re: MS Sharepoint Integration

2007-03-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm looking into this too. One of the things I'd like to do is have a web part that lists the open work for the person logged in, plus be able to put Broadcasts on the front page of our intranet so end-users can see statuses on big issues and such. -Original Message-

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