Re: Useful information about BMC Analytics

2009-06-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We have the opposite issue. We have been Business Objects users for years, and we've owned BMC Analytics for a year and a half, but the extra BO server license is really useless for us since we put it on our production BOXI server. BMC didn't want to give us a discount even though we wouldn't

Dealing with stolen Assets

2009-06-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I was wondering what you all view as the best practice for dealing with assets that have been stolen, in as much as tracking that in Asset Management. How do your companies deal with this? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Southern Union 5444 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX

Re: iWave

2009-06-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We tried to use it to import into our CMDB, and after a while we got it working. We are no longer using it. It's far inferior to EIE, in my opinion, especially since you have to do .NET development just to map fields between applications. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Dealing with stolen Assets

2009-06-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This looks like it may be the best option for us as well. It's simple and seems to make sense since the location really did change. We also have no tie between our financial system and Remedy at this point, and the only part we are looking at integrating at this time are related to purchasing

Relationships on Work Orders

2009-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Has anyone heard from BMC whether the next version of SRM will have relationships or not? If you pull up the Work Orders form, it looks like BMC hastily copied the form from Change Management and deleted the table field and workflow but left the tab and a few buttons there. It

Re: Relationships on Work Orders

2009-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I am as well. We upgraded from a prior version of SRM and had a BMC person here doing some minor custom stuff, so I wonder if there was a problem in the upgrade because of that. That should be ok as I plan to restore my DB from production and do a new install of 2.2. Perhaps that would help.

Asset Management Issues

2009-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon everyone, We randomly started getting a message on Asset Management today citing an error any time you try to open the Asset Management Console or any form dealing with assets. The error is: ARERR [102] Name parameter (or name field in a parameter) is empty I've seen instances

Re: Asset Management Issues

2009-06-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
11, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.commailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: ** Good afternoon everyone, We randomly started getting a message on Asset Management today citing an error any time you try to open the Asset Management Console or any form dealing with assets

Re: Remove url and attachment from out-of-box Notification Message (ITSM 7.1)

2009-06-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There is one filter that you have to remove both the URL and attachment from. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of the filter but I believe it originally got it from BMC's knowledgebase. I would try to do a search there first. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Attention BMC/Remedy Partners and Resellers :: Remedy-Themed Internet Domains for Sale or Lease

2009-06-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is not always the case. For example, if someone registered remedysucks.com and used it to sell T-shirts with smart alec quips about things they don't like about Remedy, I think it would be legal under the first amendment. In that case, they are mocking the product, which is a form of

Re: Attention BMC/Remedy Partners and Resellers :: Remedy-Themed Internet Domains for Sale or Lease

2009-06-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Personally, I blame our government for how terrible of a product the Remedy Approval Engine is. I just know that the political party I oppose is responsible for making the Approval Central link too generic which makes my management angry. The whole thing is either a liberal or conservative

Re: Test System to Production System, Would Ghost Image work ? what is BMC recommendation?

2009-06-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You should try exporting ITSM then. I don't know if it's even possible to do without crashing something, and I haven't tried lately. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Monday, June 29,

Wednesday SRM Humor

2009-07-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've been troubleshooting a bug in SRM 2.2 patch 2 where you can't relate Change and Incident templates to AOTs. As a part of my troubleshooting, In my investigations, it appears that BMC hardcoded a field in the search criteria for Incident and Change templates that doesn't exist on either

Re: Wednesday SRM Humor

2009-07-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
that the later seems to apply in many cases is beside the point. ;-) Lyle From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Wednesday SRM Humor ** I've been

Re: SRM Work Order Templates and Multi-Tenancy

2009-07-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
to make it easier, but the template names need to be modified since they have to be unique. Tami Palacky Remedy Developer Dev Technologies On Jul 8, 9:29 am, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: Good morning, I've been working with SRM and the Work Order Management, and was curious

Re: Wednesday SRM Humor

2009-07-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:53 PM To: arsl...@arslist.org Subject: Re: Wednesday SRM Humor ** I recall when I was learning Perl the book I used always seemed to use $foo and $bar

Re: Changing databases

2009-07-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We use log shipping for sending our ARSystem changes to our remote backup server and it works fine with no problems. Obviously, this works for us since we don't have requirements for realtime replication or mirroring. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Remedy Technical Support Options. Any opinions?

2009-07-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
One thing to consider is the time zone that the people who you will need to call are in. We have had a tremendous amount of trouble with BMC support due to the time zone. Since most of their U.S. based support is in Pacific time, and they apparently start work at 9:00am, if you are in EST or

Re: Apologies -- Need Help with Licensing

2009-07-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Norm, It's not simple, and I believe there is a whitepaper about it that I am too lazy to look up right now. Basically, you have multiple levels of licenses. So if you were setting up a new server and wanted to log in as a user for Incident Management, you would have to have: 1) AR Server

Re: Fw: Get CRM Certified

2009-07-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Isn't CSS considered to be CRM? I know it's not the most widely used Remedy product suite out there, but it should count. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of dcharters Sent: Tuesday, July 14,

Re: Dropping BMC Support

2009-07-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is correct, and it can be far-reaching. At my current employer, we were looking into purchasing ITSM a few years ago. Basically, BMC let us have it for paying back-maintenance from an old company. So basically what happened is that Company E went sold off Company C and went bankrupt.

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd like to echo that David Easter's message to the ARSList is the only official communication I got about this. I contacted my sales rep, but I got the impression that my inquiry was the first he had heard about it as well. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. Axton Grasm On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I'd like

Re: Can Remedy run case insenitive?

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It is possible to set up a database to be case insensitive in Oracle. The Remedy limitation is really an Oracle limitation. By default, Oracle is case sensitive, and your DBA should either know or be able to figure out how to make your ARSystem database case insensitive. However, as far as I

Re: OT: SQL2005 Upgrade

2008-09-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We did this and ran into no issues. We have a pretty straight-forward Remedy implementation, with the DB on a remote server so it was just a matter of the DBAs copying over the appropriate files and setting up ARSystem on the new 2005 server, and my team updating the ar.cfg file to point to

OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning everyone, I just wanted to check in and see if everyone else in the Houston area on this list is doing well or not. Sorry to clog up the ARSList with non-Remedy stuff, but we've got major problems down here that aren't being reported on in the national news, and I just wanted to

Re: OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Hurricane Ike ** You don't need to apologize for the post, Shawn. We're family here, and we're concerned about you, Claire, the BMC offices, and others that got hit by this. Keep us posted, please. Rick On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Pierson, Shawn

Re: OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
offer my home. Afterall, the arslist is an extended family of sorts. Susan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Pierson, Shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Good morning everyone, I just wanted to check in and see if everyone else in the Houston area on this list is doing well

Re: It's official from the BMC UserWorld web site ... October 2009

2008-09-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Susan, While I agree with your feelings on the matter, I don't think BMC is going to do any of the things you suggest. Also, I sent my sales rep an email after the news of it being cancelled, and have been in contact with him as an outlet rather than the ARSList. Sometimes it's better to

Re: It's official from the BMC UserWorld web site ... October 2009

2008-09-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I didn't mean to make a dig at anyone. If what I said gave you any offense I apologize because that was not my intent. I was thinking more of my own reputation. Sometimes I find it more interesting to participate in discussions that we all feel passionate about like this and say negative

Re: 2008 User World

2008-09-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This isn’t directly specifically at Kelly, but at everyone who is in that type of situation. I would be offended if my boss didn’t trust me enough to be professional and do my job. I don’t think I would want to work for someone that didn’t trust me enough to be able to go to Las Vegas for a

Re: A higher calling in AR System 7.5.00

2008-09-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't have a lot to add right now as I've only skimmed over this, but I agree with those who say this is what the industry has been going towards. Actually, I think BMC (or actually Remedy) should be complimented for how much backwards compatibility they have maintained over the years. I

Re: Optional Categorization for Incident Management 7

2008-09-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Instead of making a change to the way ITSM route, we chose to publicly ridicule people who don't fill them out and treat them with contempt. I'm joking. Actually, we didn't change the software, but rather made it a best practice and run a report that shows Incidents and Changes without those

Re: OT:Friday Humor

2008-10-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's hard to tie this in with politics though. Obama drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, which isn't listed here. McCain drives a Cadillac CTS, a 2005 Volkswagen convertible, a 2001 Honda sedan, a 2007 Ford pickup, a 1960 Willis Jeep, a 2008 Jeep Wrangler, a 2000 Lincoln, a 2001 GMC SUV, and his wife

Re: OT:Friday Humor

2008-10-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
to free speech. ROFLMAO ! Have a great weekend ... and don't forget to vote Regards...Gidd From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Progress Bar on New

2008-10-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've never run into that. The first thing I'd try would be clearing the cache on the Mid Tier, and if that doesn't work, go into the Admin Tool and look at the form. If the Save button is available, click it, and try again after the Mid Tier re-caches. From: Action Request System discussion

Re: What's a bug anyway? (Kind of a rant...)

2008-10-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, that's one of my favorite examples of inconsistency in ITSM. I don't think it's because the same person created all of those fields, I think it suffers the same problems any other large, long-lasting ARS application does. So to further your complaint, the Change Manager's database

Re: BMC Elite?

2008-10-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Same here. I wonder if they know that they are violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Perhaps we should find out who is behind it, as they can be fined $11,000 for each individual email they send out. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luksha,

Re: BMC Elite?

2008-10-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC Elite? Same here. I wonder if they know that they are violating the CAN-SPAM

CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Has anyone ever successfully used the CMDB web service? We have a vendor that has come in and is trying to use it, but has been unsuccessful thus far. The only thing that has happened is that when they attempt to access it, Tomcat seems to crash and we can no longer use either

Re: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have a tool called Web Services Studio that is pretty good. Unfortunately, I don't think either we or the vendors know what the data we are pushing should look like, and I'm not sure they are going about it the right way, as they are trying to write directly to the BMC.ASSET dataset.

Re: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Peter, Thanks for the email. The web service does seem to be correctly installed, but we have found that calling some methods causes Tomcat to hang up, and others just simply don't work. For testing, we're using the appadmin account just to see if it works, and that still doesn't seem to be

Navigation Field Issue on 7.0.1

2008-11-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon everyone, This is something that should be simple, but I can't seem to get it working right. When creating a Navigation Field, I'd like to be able to have all items on all of the menus opened whenever the form opens. Is there some trick to getting it to do it? I've tried

SOLVED: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
their own version. This may make patches and updates difficult, but we haven't tested it fully yet to see what the impact will be. Thanks to all those who responded. _ From: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:44 AM To: arslist

Re: Monday Humor: They're ready for a conference now I think

2008-11-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Next year, BMC User World will be cancelled to not conflict with a Star Trek convention. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Monday Humor: They're ready

Re: ARS for non Trouble Ticketing applications

2008-11-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There have been a lot of interesting responses, but there have been a few areas that haven't been covered here that I've either built myself or with a team so I'll list them below. A data-driven ARS-based survey application to tie in with a trouble ticket system, but was created generically

Re: SQL Reporing Services - making sense of Remedy Table structure

2008-11-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I haven't used SSRS much, but I do recall that it is more difficult to report off of applications like Remedy than .NET applications. The reason being that Remedy doesn't store foreign keys and such to relate to other tables in the DBMS, rather storing relationships like that in the

Strange ARS 7.0.1 Patch 9 bug

2008-11-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I decided to try going from patch 6 to patch 9, and found a strange bug and wanted to see if anyone else ran into this before. Basically, we use AD authentication for Remedy, but do store all permissions and such in ARS. This has worked fine for my account in the past. However,

Re: BMC Remedy ARS + ITSM Interview Questions

2008-12-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I once had an interview where the technical portion consisted of How do you create a user in Remedy? then once I answered that sufficiently, the questions were more along the lines of asking me for technical advice because the interviewer was thrown into Remedy and didn't know what he was

Re: Sending Emails to Groups

2008-12-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This sounds like a really big deal. Has BMC said that it's as designed, or is this a bug? This could potentially break Remedy for ITSM applications. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Caruso Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:39 PM

Re: ITSM 7 Patch 009

2008-12-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've run into similar problems with ARS Patch 9 when using Active Directory, but haven't seen any threads on it yet. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barb Wagner Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:34 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Remedy resource available Jan. - Referral Incentive!

2008-12-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That depends on what type of work is required. If they want a junior resource for data entry or something like that, then it could be ok. Also keep in mind that some recruiting firms are getting their job requirements from other firms, who are getting it from other firms, and so on. This is

Re: JOBAIDS?

2008-12-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm pretty sure that jobs aids are just a fancy term for documentation. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: JOBAIDS? **

Re: Calling an AL Guide through an Escalation

2008-12-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Ib, I know you're a smart guy so I'm not going to ask why the Filters don't work and such, so another creative option might be to create another dataset in the CMDB where you update it via SQL or some other means that you know will work, then use the Reconciliation Engine to merge the

Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards

2009-01-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd like to third this. I was never notified of BMC UserWorld 2009 being cancelled, except through the ARSList. My company too has money set aside for training and it is disappointing that we won't have this conference available, especially since BMC sales seems to have lost interest in

ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping

2009-01-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The questions about upgrading to ARS 7.1 lately have gotten me thinking about something. For our disaster recovery solution, we have a failover server sitting in another city, with a different server name, etc. We use log shipping in SQL Server 2005 to keep the two databases synchronized. In

Re: ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping

2009-01-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping ** The questions about upgrading to ARS 7.1

ITSM 7 Work Info

2009-01-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I'm curious if anyone else out there has a good explanation for why BMC went from using a Diary field to a separate table for the work log on the ITSM applications. Management here has told the users to fill it out more, and now that they've been doing it, they are upset that

Re: My Entitled Products problem

2009-01-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I see all three versions of everything logged in on mine. I think what David is pointing at is that in some cases there are multiple support ids, and that if you don't have the right one that your support contract is tied to, you may not be able to download them. That still doesn't explain

Re: Jr. Remedy Developer Needed

2009-01-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Out of curiosity, what if you are married to a foreign national who gets their citizenship? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of VanSickle, James W Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:26 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Jr. Remedy

Re: Jr. Remedy Developer Needed

2009-01-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The ARS List is no place to talk politics, especially in defaming my president. Based on the email address you are using, I'm very surprised you don't have more respect for this country. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Remedy Deve3loper Studio 7.5???

2009-02-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have a feeling that as BMC shifts Remedy to be more of a Java tool, they are trying to make it easier for Java Developers to work with the ARS toolset. Notice all the focus over the past few years of making your own plugins and on the focus of making a decent Java API instead of a Java

Re: Redirect to Login page after logout from Support Console(web)

2006-10-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: Message ** Personally, I did this for all applications just by modifying the logout.jsp and adding in this meta tag right below the other meta tag in there: META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="2; URL="" class=678315412-10102006>yourservername/arsys/home" This makes it log out, then takes

FW: RPC errors/server crashing

2006-10-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: Message ** Jamie, I'm forwarding this message for someone who tried to respond but is having problems sending to the ARSList. Hopefully this helps. Thanks, Shawn Pierson -Original Message-From: Narsing Metpally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:56

Re: Mid Tier - Long Applet Load Time

2006-10-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: Message ** Lori, Unfortunately it is hard to compare load times for forms because it partially depends on the complexity of the form (e.g. number of fields, number of extra items like tabs, view fields, etc) and the performance of the mid tier server itself. In my experience when it

BMC Discovery Suite

2006-10-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: BMC Discovery Suite ** Hello folks, My company is looking into using the BMC Discovery Suite (Foundation, Topology, Configuration) to populate our CMDB and leverage that for our ITSM applications. I'm wondering if any of you have experience with it and what your general opinion is.

OT: Home Page Customization

2006-10-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: OT: Home Page Customization ** I've been thinking of the best way to customize the Home Page form for my Remedy implementation. Currently, I set the white space that takes up about 3/4 of the screen to be a view field to a static HTML page with some graphics and instructions on using

Re: Copying production database to development

2006-10-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Is LDAP enabled? That could be a potential problem if you had it enabled on the old system but it is not configured on the new system. If all else fails, you can create a new Administrator account from the command line using arcache and see if that one works. -Original Message- From:

Re: CMDB 2.0.1 release date?

2006-11-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: Message ** I heard it was supposed to be released early November, but no solid date. Additionally, if you have the BMC Discovery Suite or plan on implementing it, for some reason it needs CMDB 2.0.1. -Original Message-From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: perform-actions-add-attachment

2006-11-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Title: Message ** There are a couple of factors to consider. Make sure that the user that the Remedy daemon runs under can access that directory and file. I'm not sure if you did that or tested it via the username that you log into the system with. In any case, it sounds like it's time to turn

Re: BMC Support Doesn't

2006-12-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is one of the flaws of most early ITIL adoptions I think. While in ITIL everything is initiated and communicated through the Service Desk as front line support, that doesn't mean that it has to be an organization structure. There's no valid reason for them to limit the KBs as tightly as

Re: RUG 2007 date, location

2007-01-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think that you can still go by car with only a birth certificate and state-issued photo id for a few more years. However, most people would be going by plane, so yeah. Does anyone know why they're having it outside of the U.S. this year? Wouldn't it have been easier to have it in Seattle? I'm

Re: User World 2007

2007-01-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Halloween isn't a big deal, but the fact that it's being held out of the country is. I'd like to go, but the fact that it's in Canada is going to make it even more difficult to convince the management of the value of the User World. -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: 7.00.01 Patch 1

2007-01-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm getting HTTP 500 - Internal server error messages all over the place on Supportweb so I assume they're having issues. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Yearsley Sent: Monday,

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20

2007-01-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm glad that I installed Patch 20 on my test server, because it hosed everything up. I'm debating trying out a completely new install to see if that works, but Patch 20 is a failure so far and I will not be deploying it to my production environment until the kinks are worked out. I also

Re: Issues since patch #19 or #20 - Uh-Oh

2007-01-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I still can't get it to work on Windows even with the newer files. For some reason it doesn't try to log in to the database using ARAdmin and instead seems to pass a null value to SQL Server. Hopefully support gets back to me with a solution because it would be nice to have enough confidence in

Re: Verifying that ARS 6.3 Patch 20 Worked DST

2007-01-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
My plan was to simply do a few things like the following: 1) Create a few tickets with the current date. 2) Change the date to right after the DST change and create a few tickets. 3) Modify the tickets created in step 1. 4) Verify everything worked as expected in steps 1 - 3. 5) Repeat all

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: 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

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: 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

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.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: 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: 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: 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.

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: 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,

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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