Re: Complex incomming email processing

2012-04-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The one style argument I would have with that technique deals specifically with how to move incoming emails from the AR System Email Messages Form to the staging form. He uses a Filter, and rightly cautions, The Java process that runs the email engine will fail to create an entry in the AR

Re: Questionary issue in SRM 7.6.04 SP2 with IE8

2012-04-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've seen this behavior as well with the latest SRM but haven't had time to investigate it. That hotfix will be on my list to test now. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Shareware ARS Calendar

2012-04-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Do you have SharePoint? If so, you can work with the SharePoint administrator to set up a BDC (Business Data Catalog) connection (basically XML) to a view on the Remedy database, and display that data in a SharePoint Calendar. SharePoint calendars can also be integrated with Outlook so you

Re: SRM and Puppet

2012-04-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you look into Task Management, there are automated tasks that you can build that should help you with some of that. You would still have to do some level of customization of ITSM (especially if you want to pass data entered via SRM to the Task itself) but it should be doable. Thanks,

Re: SRM and Puppet

2012-04-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
** Thanks Shawn, Is there a document specifically about Task Management. I can't find anything about the Launch Command feature of this... Thanks! Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson

Re: Count of records

2012-04-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In order to help developers like myself get better at filtering data, my son is named Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- Pierson. http://xkcd.com/327/ Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: CMDB recommendation

2012-05-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The way to determine if you need to create another class is to consider what additional attributes you need to track that don’t exist in any of the other classes. My personal preference is to use the Computer System class as sort of a catch all, and like Rick Cook said, use Categorization to

BMC Numara Footprints to BMC Remedy ITSM License Conversion

2012-05-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We're currently in the process of figuring out how many Remedy licenses we need to purchase in order to bring our newly merged organization up on Remedy. The other company that we are being combined with is on Footprints, we are on Remedy, so we thought that BMC would have some sort of license

Re: BMC Numara Footprints to BMC Remedy ITSM License Conversion

2012-05-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: BMC Numara Footprints

Re: BMC Numara Footprints to BMC Remedy ITSM License Conversion

2012-05-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
-BMC product line. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:33 PM

Re: SRM Console and hiding buttons

2012-05-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Log in to the Application Administration Console and go to the Advanced tab, then select SRM Advanced Preferences and you can turn the Cart functionality via the Show Cart field, or are you trying to do this on a case by case basis? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

Re: ITSM 7.6 upgrade from 7.0.03 Patch 9

2012-05-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We experienced a lot of latency on multiple browsers with SP2 and BMC sent us a custom hotfix that I believe cleaned up some of the mess in the Javascript and CSS on the Midtier to resolve the issue. BMC Support should be able to get a good handle on this because a lot of people have had

Re: Granting access to SRM for AD authenticated users

2012-05-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would echo what others said about a People record being required, but I would also suggest building an integration with Active Directory via ARDBC. Just build a vendor form against the User Accounts in AD via ARDBC, then build an escalation to put that data into a staging form, which has

Re: Friday funny or not!

2012-05-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Sorry for the even further off topic history lesson, but the term “third world” bothers me. It has become a term that relates to a nation’s backwardness or poverty rather than the original meaning with relation to the Cold War. The terms First, Second, and Third world basically express the

Re: Version Roll Up is not working in Atrium 7.6.04

2012-05-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What is showing up in the logs? I've been dealing with some Normalization issues as well, and I see lots of things in the neJob.BMC.ASSET.### files but none that explain this. The only errors I see are for products that truly don't match anything in the Product Catalog where I get errors such

Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question

2012-05-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm in a similar situation. BMC has put together a matrix comparing the two, but it's not very complete. According to BMC, SCSM isn't something that has been a competitor to the Remedy platform in the past, so they don't have a well put together comparison between the two. I have put

Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question

2012-05-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
a developer has not touched the system in over a year except for patching. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: System Center

Re: dev studio for linux?

2012-05-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It looks like just another activist investor trying to make some short term dollars without any long term concern. My opinion is that BMC is doing well enough that they probably won’t do everything he says, but they will likely make some small changes to their organization to drive up share

Re: Saturday Humor.. Syncing my iPhone...

2012-05-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
iTunes is probably the main reason I have no interest in Apple products. It’s like you’ve been given a Ferrari and are limited to driving it in on a go-kart course. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Requester Console in Home Page.

2012-05-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Something that I have is a custom webpage on my MidTier that redirects based on which incoming DNS host name the user is coming from (options are remedy or the physical server hostname for I.T. staff or help for end users. I think I got this from someone on the ARSList but I forgot who so I

Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question

2012-05-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question I can't speak for all situations, but in my experience the vast majority of situations where the tool is switched

Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question

2012-05-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 9:17 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: System Center 2012 Service Manager question Yesterday was my company's demo of Microsoft SCSM. Overall I would say that the demo made it look promising

Re: Service Request versa Change Request

2012-05-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've been testing some similar ideas, and while I agree that a CRQ is the best approach from a process standpoint for enhancement requests, the extra fields available on the Work Order screen are nice. If you need to report on your backlog of enhancement requests, it seems much easier to do so

SW00412378 - Fixing the 7.6.4 Asset Management Console

2012-05-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Just a heads up, if you are on 7.6.4 and your users are angry that Asset Management is less useful than prior versions because BMC removed the search by Role functionality from the Asset Management console, I found the above item in the Supportweb knowledge base that includes a hotfix to

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Perhaps a good alternative would be if BMC somehow made a volunteer-based support forum that could take the place of their offshore support. They could somehow anonymize the contact data to where you don't actually know who the person you are dealing with is, and they could use this new

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would also add that they game the SLA system as a rule by trying to close things out for being open too long. On numerous occasions, either myself or one of my colleagues has had a ticket open with BMC Support where BMC made no progress on the issue and didn't respond to us, then after a

Re: mutiple addresses for one user account

2012-06-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In these situations we use email distribution lists maintained in Exchange instead of having them listed anywhere in Remedy. I don't see why it wouldn't work, since the email engine is just passing onto SMTP or whatever and properly formatted lists of email addresses should work. I would just

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've seen these types of situations play out before, and basically what generally happens is one of two things: 1) the management of the corporation makes some changes to take the wind out of the sails of the activist investor(s), or 2) the management of the corporation is replaced by people

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Most of the stock is held by non-BMC folks. According to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BMC+Major+Holders it says that 91% of the shares are held by institutional and mutual fund owners. For example, the top mutual fund holder according to that is DODGE COX STOCK FUND which has 5.10% of

Re: 7.6.04 SP3 Floating Application License Question

2012-06-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Just like the minimum amount of time being one hour for floating licenses. Most floating users in my organization log in and log out within maybe 15 – 20 minutes, but due to the way the licensing timeout works, there’s a bunch of licenses being used for no valid reason other than the vendor

Re: 7.6.04 SP3 Floating Application License Question

2012-06-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:29 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject

Re: Approval by mail

2012-06-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What I set up (that I can't share, unfortunately) is that I created an intermediate form for approvals that updates the back-end approval form for approvers and alternates. I also adjusted the emails that go out in SYS:Notification Messages (I think that's the form name) to include some

Re: Next ARS version

2012-06-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
An example of a Windows version that was a minor version update but is actually very different is Windows Server 2008 versus Windows Server 2008 R2 (not to be confused with Windows Server 2008 SP2.) In fact, I think that 2008 was technically Windows NT 6 and 2008 R2 is Windows NT 6.1, but I

SRM Surveys

2012-07-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, It looks like in SRM 7.7, the Survey functionality ignores the SRM Preferences form completely. I had wanted to limit the surveys to only one company but it looks like that is impossible. Does anyone have a solution for doing so other than creating some custom code? Thanks,

Re: BMC Remedy ITSM Vs Service Now

2012-07-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Another point that I would make is that based on my own observations, I'm not sure I've seen a case where someone goes from Remedy to ServiceNow and stays there. From a functionality standpoint, I've heard that companies used to the Remedy suite generally end up unhappy with ServiceNow and

Re: Opinion - Tasks not Displayed on Parent Consoles

2012-07-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We built a Task Console for using on the landing page, although there is a defect in it that is preventing it from working correctly if you save it to your default profile, which BMC hasn’t been very helpful with since it’s custom. However I agree, Tasks should be much more visible, because

Re: ITSM 7.6.04 - Assigned Group Search on INC form.

2012-07-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Claire, Could some of them be Incidents that you migrated from your old system, or some created by SRM and some manually? I've not seen this behavior before, but I would try to identify at least one example that does show up at all times and one example that doesn't, and do a comparison via a

Re: BMC Remedy ITSM Vs Service Now

2012-07-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Dale, I think all of the ITSM suites out there could use a lot of improvement, but then again, our processes as users of those suites probably need just as much if not more. After we implemented ITSM 7.0 back in 2007, most of the user complaints I encountered were about the processes rather

Task Management Approvals

2012-07-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning folks, I'm about to begin working on something and I wanted to run it past you all first. Our problem is that we rely heavily on Tasks for infrastructure groups that are part of Change Requests yet approvals for those groups must be done manually. For example, the DBA team works

Re: Task Management Approvals

2012-07-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
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Re: Somebody BMC Remedy on Linux

2012-07-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think that a good place to start would be to look at the past few AR System service pack whitepapers and see how many defects in recent releases were specific to Linux as an OS. It's not something that I've looked into, but I have a theory that Windows receives the most QA time, and as a

SRM Instructions by Question

2012-07-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've been given a request that is simple but I don't think can be done in SRM 7.7 without creating an AIF. Basically, what the user wants is an instruction section for each question. For example: Would you like to report an issue or enhancement?* ( ) Issue ( ) Enhancement _Select Issue

Re: Non-production environment refresh.

2012-07-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Ron, One side project I've worked on recently but haven't had time to finish is a refresh of testing data. For example, I set up some Migrator scripts to move Product Catalog data from Production to testing. It was kind of a pain because of all the different forms, but it may be an easier

Re: Change Management Console shows RFCs that is not belong to the group

2012-07-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I resolved a similar issue with 7.6.4. In my case, it was due to the Change Implementer being populated by the Assignment Mappings, even though those fields are not something usable in 7.6.4. That's the first thing I would check into. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy

Re: OT: Apache Tomcat

2012-08-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Have either of you tried running on the real version of Tomcat rather than the version BMC ships with the Mid Tier? While I've not had the trouble you all have, I'm personally more confident in downloading and setting up Apache the way I think it should be set up, then installing the Mid Tier

Re: OT: Apache Tomcat

2012-08-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 2:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Apache Tomcat ** Have either of you tried running on the real version of Tomcat rather than the version BMC ships with the Mid Tier

Re: Importing data from another source form into the ITSM Incident form

2012-08-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I personally like using the HPD:IncidentInterface_Create form to do imports if I have something custom, especially if you're doing the migration on the same server that your data resides. It takes care of some of the lookups for you so you don't have to worry about it too much. Be sure your

Re: Importing data from another source form into the ITSM Incident form

2012-08-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. Nate. Nathan Aker ITSM Solution Architect McAfee, Inc. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Importing data from another

Re: Change Management 7.0.3- CR stuck with Complete status.

2012-08-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I ran into similar issues with custom approval processes years ago, and I can't remember what I did to fix it other than recognizing that it was my fault somehow. The two things I would suggest doing are 1) turn on approval logging via the Approval Administration Console and see what is going

Re: OT: Apache Tomcat

2012-08-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Business Objects/Remedy Desk: 972-464-3712 PCS: 973-652-6723 SA_Intakehttp://saintake.t-mobile.com/ SA Portalhttp://sa.eng.t-mobile.com/Pages/Default.aspx From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9

Re: AD People Integration Choking due to Max Filters for an Operation

2012-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
How are you getting the data from AD into Remedy? I have an integration that serves the same purpose and I use Escalations to make the updates on a scheduled basis. As a result, each record triggers the filters in its own action rather than in bulk. I'm processing about 4,000 records daily

Re: AD People Integration Choking due to Max Filters for an Operation

2012-08-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
processing as well? Nate. Nathan Aker ITSM Solution Architect McAfee, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AD People Integration Choking due

Re: If BMC Remedy had a theme song

2012-08-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've always thought of the song by The Prodigy, Poison. The lyrics are mostly the two guys singing back and forth, I got the poison... then the other I got the remedy, I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy. I don't know about you, but my 7.6.4 installation is neither pulsating or rhythmical.

Re: Oracle vs. SQL

2012-09-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've worked with both, and in the specific case of running Remedy, I personally prefer SQL Server. Part of it may be due to the out of the box case insensitivity, the easier to use interfaces (I have done Microsoft-based development and taken several SQL Server DB classes in the past.) We use

Re: SRM assign to submitter for On Behalf Of

2012-09-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I haven't done that, but at least with an advanced interface form I believe that may be one of the (undocumented) things you can push to. I have an AIF that has some fields exposed to populate the Customer fields, so on this specific request anyone that has access to it can submit it on behalf

Re: SRM assign to submitter for On Behalf Of

2012-09-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
responsible to oversea and/or monitor the request from end to end ensuring its completing and integrity. Moe From: Pierson, Shawn [mailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com]mailto:[mailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 4:00 PM Subject: Re: SRM assign to submitter for On Behalf Of ** I haven't

Re: Atrium Integrator vs AIE

2012-09-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I know it's not your question, but we ran into a lot of issues with AI, so we kept using AIE. BMC Support assured me that AIE is not going away too soon even though the plan is for AI to replace it. Based on what I've seen, AI has all the functionality of AIE and more. Unfortunately, it's

Re: Does ARS Require JDK

2012-09-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The answer is yes, you will need the JDK, but I'd suggest reading the install guide and filling out the install worksheets to make sure you have everything you need in place which includes the prerequisites. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer -Original Message-

Re: Creating incidents from a spread sheet in ITSM 7.6.4

2012-09-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If it's just a onetime migration why not use the Data Management Tool? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Richter, Howard (CEI - Atlanta) Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012

Re: Trigger active link on calendar selection.

2012-09-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Another route could be to layer two fields on top of each other, one being a date field that stores the value and has no calendar button, the other being a calendar field with no data visible but with a calendar button. The no-calendar button is read only so they can't click on it, and since

Re: Trigger active link on calendar selection.

2012-09-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
selection. ** Not sure if i followed you. I'll try. Jose Manuel Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.commailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: is to set the read only da _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.comhttp://www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where

Re: Remedy ITSM - 7.6.04 SP2 CMDB Audit Trail/Log

2012-09-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We had to make our own audit form for Asset Management. The tricky part is being able to track relationship (including people and CI) changes. The other major enhancement we made for Asset Management is a CI Transfer form. It's used on Computer Systems, so when a user gets a new PC, you can

Re: CMDB CI and relationship templates

2012-09-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't have a good answer either, but we do something like this, although completely custom. Basically, we have a form in SRM for software requests, that create Work Orders. Based off of values in the fields of the Work Order template, I have the things I need to 1) create the Product CI

Re: SQL or Oracle

2012-09-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
SQL Server is cheaper and easier to manage. It works better when it comes to case sensitivity. For the amount of users you have, there are no performance advantages or anything when it comes to Oracle. Basically, Remedy works perfectly fine on both, but you should use whatever you and your

Re: SRM - Blank requests

2012-09-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Are you using Advanced Interface Forms? If you're using standard SRM SRDs and AOTs I would look at the mappings on the SRD first. Also you didn't mention whether the Service Request record gets created successfully, or if it's messed up from the beginning. I've had issues with the mapping

Changing Support Company Data

2012-10-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I've been tasked with moving Support Groups to an entirely different Company structure. Basically, in the Data Wizard Console in 7.6.4, I can rename support groups and organizations, but they seem to need to stay in the same Company. Other than re-creating them from scratch in

Re: ADDM to CMDB

2012-10-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
First, I would double check that the ADDM user has Asset Admin permissions. If so, I would look at BMC.CORE.CONFIG:BMC_Dataset_ and ensure that Asset Admin is listed in the CMDBRowLevelSecurity and possibly the CMDBWriteSecurity fields if adding it to the first doesn't solve it. Thanks,

Multi-Tenant Approval Signature Escalations

2012-10-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I have an unusual request that I am working through, and hope that someone here has an idea that may work to implement different signature escalations on different approvals within the same process. Basically, we have two different Change Management processes in ITSM 7.6.4. To

Re: Multi-Tenant Approval Signature Escalations

2012-10-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
: patchsk [mailto:vamsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:46 AM To: arsl...@googlegroups.com Cc: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; Pierson, Shawn Subject: Re: Multi-Tenant Approval Signature Escalations What you are looking for is a combination of approval chain and SLA

Re: Updates via Import into Asset

2012-10-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I know all the work was already done manually, but why not just write an Escalation to do a REPLACE on the field to remove the hyphens and avoid dealing with any import issues altogether? Otherwise, Atrium Integrator/AIE in conjunction with the Reconciliation Engine are the right ways to

ITSM 7.6.4 Change Process Flow Configuration Changes

2012-10-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I'm working on something that keeps giving me errors and I was wondering if anyone might have an idea other than deleting the record and creating a new one. Basically, I have a custom Process Flow Configuration record that I would like to update. When I tried to set the Status

Re: Updates via Import into Asset

2012-10-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Import into Asset ** That's probably a better idea since I don't know AIE yet. I would create the escalation on the AST:Monitor form (for monitors). Correct? Thanks! Lisa On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.commailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: ** I know all

Re: Updates via Import into Asset

2012-10-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We're not supposed to do this since BMC doesn't support it, but word on the streets is that my uncle's brother's son would run this against BMC_CORE_BMC_BaseElement and add a WHERE clause looking for ClassId = 'BMC_MONITOR' to avoid the potential join form issues that could arise especially if

Approval Engine Notifications

2012-10-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I've been tasked with building a custom approval process. The requirement is that on Change Management, the Close Down Approval isn't to take place until at least 24 hours after the Change Request is completed. The way I was thinking of handling this would be to use a custom

Re: Approval Engine Notifications

2012-10-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
it seems like nobody in support understands how approvals work. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Approval Engine Notifications Good morning, I've been tasked with building a custom

Re: Approval Rule to stop a rejection from closing the process.

2012-10-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Do you have some conditions that must be met? In your example of three approvers, do they all have the same weight? For example, if the I.T. Manager and I.T. Director are added as approvers and either one can approve and have it still go through, but if the Business manager is added and they

Re: WWRUG BMC Sale Rumors

2012-10-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
My personal (as in don't make any decisions based on this, especially financial) opinion is that since BMC shares have stabilized from the massive freefall of last year and reached a bottom of around $31/share earlier this year, potential buyers may wait to see if BMC's sales stabilize. I'm

SOLVED: ITSM 7.6.4 Change Process Flow Configuration Changes

2012-10-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Just to follow up since I didn't get any answers, I found that I was running into errors, but for some reason they weren't showing up in the log. What was happening is that my custom process would be bypassed and the backup process I selected was being triggered. When I took that out, I saw

Re: Colorado Springs, CO

2012-10-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've been trying to bring in consultants over the past few years, with varying degrees of success. I can assure you that the market for Remedy is the strongest I've seen it since the dotcom boom. We had to offer a difficult rate (from management's perspective) just to start receiving

Re: You need to VOTE on the thread: Bring back the ARSList MVP for 2013

2012-10-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I didn't vote and I'm not sure if I would next year or not either. Within my current environment, we won the battle to get the other half of the organization to use Remedy, but I'm spending nights and weekends getting things set up for them, and as a result my time spent on the ARSList is

Re: Bulk Load CI Relationships

2012-10-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Shouldn't this be handled via the license jobs on the SAM Console in 7.6.4? The way I've done it is to load the data in through various means to create the CIs, and the license jobs (which you have to build, but can be fairly generic) can relate them to the Contracts in an automated fashion.

Re: Bulk Load CI Relationships

2012-10-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
trying to associate/relate hardware to contracts, don't think this does it for us... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 2:33 p.m. To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re

Re: Migrator question...

2012-10-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In my experience, Migrator 7.6.4 tends to drop permissions on Active Links and potentially mess up other things. It also would take much, much longer than getting a backup of the database and restoring it to another instance of SQL Server and fixing the hardcoded server references to the

Mid Tier and Potential Proxy Issues

2012-11-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, For the past two weeks, we've seen issues within a specific subset of the users accessing the Mid Tier. Basically what happens is that they log in to Remedy (we have SSO so they don't actually log in), sometimes they can see the Home Page, sometimes they can't. Other times it's

Re: CRQ Implementer group.

2012-11-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This is most likely due to an assignment mapping. While the fields aren't visible in the Best Practices view, they are visible in the older version of the Change Management form. I don't recall what I had to do to fix this, but I believe it involved changing the mappings so that the same

Re: Mid Tier and Potential Proxy Issues

2012-11-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Doh! I can't believe I left that out. I'm on 7.6.4 SP2 for everything, but with a custom hotfix for the midtier with things that I'm not sure BMC has still fixed in their official release despite it being nearly a year after we discovered the issues. Maybe when I have time I should try SP3.

Re: ARS Wiki

2012-11-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
From my perspective, wiki pages are great for documentation that is dynamic and needs constant maintenance. It makes a lot of sense for a tool like ADDM since the TKUs contain different updates for different applications and models that need to be updated regularly. However, also on the ADDM

ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7

2012-11-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, Has anyone gotten the 7.6.4 Data Management Tool to work successfully on Windows 7 and Office 2010? Any guidance on what might need to be done to get this working would be appreciated. I keep getting errors that the CSV being generated is read only, but I've verified that not

Re: [EXTERNAL] ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7

2012-11-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
- SQL Server 2008 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG]mailto:[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 1:06 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: [EXTERNAL] ITSM 7.6.4 Data

Re: ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7

2012-11-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
@ARSLIST.ORG; arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; Pierson, Shawn Subject: Re: ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7 The installation guide talks about window DEP settings. Not sure if it applies to DMT but did you check on that? It is under system properties- advanced -- performance -- Settings. Private

SOLVED: ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7

2012-11-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; Pierson, Shawn Subject: Re: ITSM 7.6.4 Data Management Tool Windows 7 The installation guide talks about window DEP settings. Not sure if it applies to DMT but did you check on that? It is under system properties- advanced -- performance -- Settings

Re: Has anyone taken the ADDM 9.0 plunge?

2012-11-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's not difficult to filter out PCs in 8.3 either so I'm not sure that would be a huge thing to worry about. You can basically filter them by the OS running on them and that should take care of it. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System

Re: [EXTERNAL] Incident Template Loading Slowly

2012-11-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I can confirm that IE9 is causing issues for us as well, both in things not loading well and performance problems. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf

Using Change Process Flow without Templates

2012-11-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I wanted to see if anyone had found a way to use Change Process Flow records without using specific Templates. In the 7.0.3 I was able to simply use Approval Process Configuration records to bypass phases that aren't needed. It looks like in 7.6.04 you have to select a

Re: When is a Floating Application License Consumed

2012-11-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I want to jump in and ask a question on this specific to the example of the Overview Console, and the area I'm specifically most interested in is the customizable Home Page version of it, rather than the standalone Overview Console. You said, As BMC has uncovered areas where licenses were

Re: When is a Floating Application License Consumed

2012-11-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
for CM licensing to cover ~300 people because it was free when CM was homegrown, I get that shutup look each time I mention this issue). Jason On Nov 14, 2012 6:18 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.commailto:shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: I want to jump in and ask a question on this specific

Re: Mirgration from Remedy to other Platforms

2012-11-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That article is older, but it doesn’t seem that controversial to say that you could build a ticketing system similar to the Help Desk application in eight months. However, the screenshots in that URL are a mess. Even the pre-7.6.4 ITSM tabbed interface looked cleaner. I thought one of the

Re: The New BMC Chat (what version of ARS and ITSM will it work on)

2012-12-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If it was the same briefing that I attended, I believe the line may have been blurred a bit between SRM, the AI agent, and the rest of the chat functionality. I recall the BMC folks saying that SRM 8.0 was compatible with ARS and ITSM 7.6.4 and that we could upgrade SRM on its own now. The

Re: The New BMC Chat (what version of ARS and ITSM will it work on)

2012-12-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
: The New BMC Chat (what version of ARS and ITSM will it work on) But if support has no idea about it, what do you do when you run into issues with it? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 10, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@sug.com wrote: If it was the same briefing that I attended, I

AR System Searches Preference Error

2012-12-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon folks, I'm running into a weird issue on ITSM and ARS 7.6.4 that I wanted to run past you all. Basically, the user was experiencing an issue where they try to get to the Incident form, and the only thing they get is a grey screen on the Mid Tier. The system isn't trying to

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