Re: ITSM Process Designer on 8.1

2014-02-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
/ -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: 25 February 2014 17:18 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM Process Designer on 8.1 This sounds interesting. So for your request workflow

Re: Question about what it takes to configure and maintain ITSM(real world)

2014-02-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think you won't get a lot of responses because it's much more subjective than that. What duties would your team has depends completely on how your users use the system and what integrations you have. For us, we currently have two FTEs and one contractor. However, I try to push as much of

Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I'm working on something that has been discussed by others here but I'm having trouble conceptualizing how I can do this. The user's requirement is to track confidential Incidents in ITSM. This is defined by setting a flag of some sort (I'm debating making it either a custom

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
is checked. Is there a better supported way to do this? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 9:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk Good morning, I'm working on something that has been

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
until the confidential records are no long in the results. Jason On Mar 7, 2014 9:22 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** I think I've come up with a plan but it's a bit of a scary idea to monkey around with permissions on ITSM

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
; arslist@ARSLIST.ORG; Pierson, Shawn Subject: Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk Multitenancy is for security in a shared environment between different companies or different business units with in the same company. You might want to check if you can use this feature if your ITSM env

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
a third option of confidential to public and locked options while configuring row level access on the HPD:Worklog form. Regards, Roney Samuel Varghese Sent from my iPhone On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote

Re: BMC should have made upgrades easier - Customers loosing interests

2014-03-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'll step in to defend BMC in this regard, acknowledging that I've had issues with various decisions that BMC has made in the past. However, we are running ITSM 8.1 in production, and it was a lot easier than going to 7.6.4 from an earlier hybrid 7.x version that we had. To be clear, with

Re: BMC should have made upgrades easier - Customers loosing interests

2014-03-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
With BMC having a much larger market share that's to be expected though isn't it? Also, the companies I've seen that go BMC - SNOW generally follow a pattern like this: 1) Company is on an old version of ARS with custom apps and an understaffed development team. 2) Company decides to try the

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
to is in the results *I think* they will not be a able to run the report until the confidential records are no long in the results. Jason On Mar 7, 2014 9:22 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** I think I've come up with a plan but it's a bit

Re: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk

2014-03-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RE: Row-Level Security on HPD:Help Desk I wanted to give a quick update on this. I'm currently testing it. I created a field I called ReadOnlyGroups with Field ID 60710 and set the default of that field

Re: Weird behavior of Mid Tiers

2014-03-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Look at your Tomcat settings. I don't recall which one exactly, but in the Tomcat Install directory there is a conf folder, and within that are a few files that should pretty much match. I'm thinking it may be related to the Catalina config file but I'd have to look in detail to see what

Re: Integration SCCM and CMDB

2014-03-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would suggest using Atrium Integrator rather than AIE. You didn't mention what version of ARS and ITSM you are on but since AIE is basically being retired you may want to go ahead and get familiar with AI. I haven't tried it since 7.6.4 just came out, and it mostly worked then but I imagine

Re: How can I increase user adoption?

2014-03-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What's the management like there? That's really where it has to start. There are so many self-help and self-improvement books out there specifically because we humans are so bad at it. ITSM is basically self-improvement for I.T. so it will suffer from neglect in the same way if there isn't

Re: How can I increase user adoption?

2014-03-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We've highly configured (with only one small area of custom code and fields) our Change Management system to function for SDLC in our organization. That being said, it's just the process, not the actual automation for code deployments and such. The next phase is to integrate with TFS for our

Web Service CIs

2014-04-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, We got a new requirement this morning of setting up web services as CIs so they can be tied to Change Requests as well as provide our I.T. security department a list that they can maintain and monitor. Mostly we would need to just track the name, a URL, and some attribute for

Re: Web Service CIs

2014-04-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
you need, and let me figure out how. If they want to track this via Services, create one or more that describes the generic function being performed for the customer. Making them customer specific leads to an out of control service catalog. Rick On Apr 3, 2014 5:45 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier

Re: Web Service CIs

2014-04-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
of times changes to firewalls or load balancers often breaks a lot of these components.. Joe From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10

Re: ADDM Synch to CMDB

2014-04-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There are reports inside of ADDM, and I'm currently on 8.3 (about to upgrade to 10) so my options may be a bit different from yours. One that may be helpful to you is the Hosts that failed last CMDB sync report. You get to it by clicking on the Reports tab, going under the Atrium Discovery

Re: Remedy Support Team Hierarchy

2014-04-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Let me preface by saying that I'm not sure I would have complained about this person publicly with my name attached if I were you. I can envision them deciding, let me Google to see how other companies use Remedy and the result is them stumbling upon your description below. In terms of

FW: Remedy job with Cisco in RTP, NC

2014-05-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
FYI Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer 1300 Main St. Houston, TX 77002 | 713.989.7226 IT Service Desk: 1.855.658.2468 If you would like to report an issue with Remedy, please click herehttp://remedy/issue.html to enter an Incident. From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Scheduling Incidents / Service Requests

2014-05-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
For that matter, this doesn't exist in Change Management as far as I know either. I'm considering building a small custom app with an escalation that runs on its own thread to do this at some point when my work load decreases (hah!) because we have scheduled releases, server OS patches, etc.

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It’s been a really long time where I worked in a shop where you can assume that 1) you have completed requirements, 2) that you can do only development work, and 3) it’s entirely a custom application. This seems to be fairly rare in our world of ITSM. I can say that with out of the box

Re: Use of Modulus in Queries

2014-06-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
So if I combine everyone's queries, I can use something like this to generate a list of all Incidents created outside of normal business hours in the month of May. That's really cool. (('Submit Date'= 05/01/2014) AND ('Submit Date' 06/01/2014)) AND (('Submit Date' - 1/1/70) % 86400) = 17

Re: Displaying the App Request ID on the Service Request Console

2014-06-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I created an on-boarding I.T. request form where you can request PC hardware via a Change Request, software via individual Work Orders, cellphone and GPS equipment via Incidents, and I think some other stuff via Incidents. While what you’re trying to do would work in a one to one scenario, I’m

Re: Multiple incoming email boxes

2014-06-19 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The easiest way to do it is that I have distribution lists with just the inbound Remedy email account, and filter the incoming emails based on those. For example, I may have remedyservert...@blah.commailto:remedyservert...@blah.com and

SRM 8.1 Product Ordering Capabilities

2014-06-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Happy Friday! I'm working on revamping the SRM form I built for on-boarding and am in the process of converting it to an Advanced Interface Form to make it even cooler. In the current implementation, I have drop-down menus to select whether you want a desktop or laptop, a few hardcoded

Re: Support Groups: Best Practice?

2014-07-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
While what you are saying mostly makes sense, 35 groups for 30 people is very excessive, especially if all 30 people are in all 35 groups with only one enabled and 29 offline for that group. It's not practical for 30 people to support 35 applications with everyone covering each other as

Re: Partial upgrade from 8.1 to 8.1 SP1

2014-07-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I did this (prior to SP1) I want to say just after Thanksgiving last year, then installed all the apps early this year. The CMDB upgrade is a bear sometimes so it's better to break the installs up like you mentioned. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action

Re: Alternate approval's email

2014-07-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We put the approver’s name in the subject line, so it reads like, “CRQ123456789 requires approval from $Full Name$” Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mike Ilmer Sent: Monday,

Re: Alternate approval's email

2014-07-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:51 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Alternate approval's email ** We put the approver’s name in the subject line, so it reads like, “CRQ123456789 requires approval from $Full Name

Re: Apply a template of Visible Columns/Column Order/Sort

2014-07-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've only done this either with 1) hiding or unhiding columns based on Active Links, or 2) hiding or unhiding different table fields based on Active Links. The only part that I don't see a way to do via a Change Fields is the sort order, but if you are using a dynamic query rather than a

Re: Midtier Overall Performance Of ITSM

2014-07-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Have you gone through BMC’s performance tuning document? Out of the box, it isn’t configured well. You have to do some Tomcat optimization as well as set up preloading of forms for it to start working well. However, also be aware that the overhead of going from one user to many isn’t going

Re: MSSQL server name / Instance name issue

2014-08-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What version are you running into this on? I want to say I had that problem with either 7.5 or maybe 7.6.4 but 8.1 doesn’t have that problem in my environment. I wish I could remember how I got around it. This may be my imagination, but there could be something akin to a portmapper on the

Re: OT: Contract vs FTE

2014-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
From my corner of the world, there are a lot of us FTEs out there, but there isn't really a market to hire people as FTEs, so I think your observation is consistent with what I've seen. I don't have enough insight into why that is to form an educated opinion about it though, and I've been at

Re: IT Home Page Add Applications and Sub-Categories

2014-09-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Your form has to be a part of a deployable application. From there you can set up entry points on the Access Points portion of the Application. If you already have a deployable application just right click on it in developer studio and select Edit Application then select Access Points and

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It seemed to work for Apple against Samsung, although in that case Samsung had already stopped selling the devices they were sued over. I remember a lot of controversy over that because the patents were very generic as well. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From:

Re: BMC sues SNOW

2014-09-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Something else to consider is that BMC is also making major innovations again. The lawsuit seems to be pretty mundane corporate stuff that goes on all the time and I don’t think winning it would put SNOW out of business or make any huge difference in their product. What I think will matter if

Re: Mobile solutions for Remedy ARS/ITSM

2014-10-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You mean like this? https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/itsm80/Getting+started+with+BMC+Remedy+with+Smart+IT Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terri Lockwood Sent:

Re: Customer Interface

2014-10-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We use SRM today, but we're considering moving forward with MyIT in 2015, although it's not been approved yet. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terri Lockwood Sent: Monday,

Re: BMC Software has Rebranded

2014-10-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This must be why bmc.com/support was down all of yesterday. Yeah, I preferred the prior color scheme. For some reasons the new design of their site makes me think it's what the Cleveland Browns would do with a generic Wordpress template if hired to make an site for Dunder Mifflin Paper

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

2014-10-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
My understanding is that the goal is to eventually use that platform as a the primary interface for Remedy, so it is not an extra product. Currently, the scope of Smart IT is limited to Incidents and Work Orders though. By the way, I downloaded it last week when it was available on EPD, but I

ITSM 8.1.2 Mid-Tier Compatibility Mode Defect

2014-10-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It looks like we found a defect in the combination of ARS and Mid-Tier 8.1.2. It is happening with both IE9 and IE11. What happened is that after upgrading the mid-tier, we started seeing this warning at the top of the screen: IE is running in Compatibility View. Please remove Mid-tier URL

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

2014-10-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Look at it as you have Service Desk licenses and SRM licenses. Both use AR System and common data, but both have different entry points and licenses. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: ENGAGE 2014 Commentary

2014-10-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm curious about your comment, An iPhone/Android phone app is also in the pipeline. I thought it was already out, just not on the app stores yet? I know next to nothing about iOS (and don't like it, personally) but in looking through the SmartIT zip files, which I haven't had a chance to

Re: Screen Shot

2014-10-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This isn't my production system, it's my QA system that is mostly the same as my production system (except that the Help documentation has never been updated in years apparently.) We actually ran into no issues with it when upgrading from Atrium Core 8.1. [cid:image002.png@01CFE9EC.BADE53C0]

Re: AR version control (was Mercurial)

2014-10-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It’s funny, because I’ve had contractors disable it because they didn’t like it and such. It works ok for version control but it is a bit cumbersome (version control is in general.) It is fairly effective though once you learn how to use the back end Remedy forms that do things like who has

ITSM 8.1.2 Installer Deleting Overlays?

2014-10-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, We're testing ITSM 8.1.2 and found something curious. It was easy enough to fix so I'm not opening a ticket with BMC right now (although if someone from BMC is curious, they already have a ticket on a different issue and can read our logs from that one.) Basically, we have an

Re: Anyone else notice this?

2014-10-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I think we need an OOtB status of “Aluminium” so we can call BMC and ask how to see it via SQL on the Status History table. You know, the “haich” table, as some people in the U.K. would pronounce it. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System

Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Installer Deleting Overlays?

2014-10-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
up with only the base object. Just a thought... Jason On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** Good afternoon, We’re testing ITSM 8.1.2 and found something curious. It was easy enough to fix so I’m

Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Installer Deleting Overlays?

2014-10-30 Thread Pierson, Shawn
will find this helpful. ☺ Jim Coryat Senior Software Engineer Micron Technology, Inc. From: Pierson, Shawn [mailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Installer Deleting Overlays? ** What was the overlay on? I can check on my system

Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Mid-Tier Compatibility Mode Defect

2014-10-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. Thanks, Jason On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** It looks like we found a defect in the combination of ARS and Mid-Tier 8.1.2. It is happening with both IE9 and IE11. What happened is that after

Re: Anyone else notice this?

2014-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, invalidated basically means that it's invalid, not that it hasn't been validated (after which it would either become valid or invalid), so a better word may be unverified in this case. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Override Change Lock down durring approval phase 8.1

2014-11-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We had discussions, then still told them no. There are some other things that are locked down that we did customize to allow them to do, such as creating relationships to other records, but things like Tasks, Summary, Notes, etc. should not be changed when it's already on the implementation

Re: Override Change Lock down during approval phase 8.1

2014-11-07 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Doug, While much of what you say makes sense, I have to ask what the logic is in preventing people from being on a Change Request and relating other requests to it. It works the other way around, but for example if your Change Request is part of a larger effort (not necessarily a release

Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Mid-Tier Compatibility Mode Defect

2014-11-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
this (annoying) message. Our browser it highly managed and I really don't want to have to include our desktop team in order to update to SP2. I am not going to put SP2 in production without getting rid of this message though. Thanks, Jason On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier

Re: ITSM 8.1.2 Mid-Tier Compatibility Mode Defect

2014-11-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** That’s odd but good that that worked for you because it didn’t for my environment. It may be a moot point though, we’re running into so many issues with 8.1.2 that I’m not sure

Re: Deleting Overlays - Nightmare

2014-12-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We recently ran into an issue on 8.1 where BMC told my colleague that using the Class Manager is no longer the recommended way to modify the underlying forms, in our specific case it was to add a few new Status Reason values to Base Element. Additionally, with 8.1.2 our views were corrupted

Re: Deleting Overlays - Nightmare

2014-12-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
interesting...I've never heard BMC recommend doing ANYTHING directly at the DB via SQL. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** We recently ran into an issue on 8.1 where BMC told my colleague that using

Re: Weird 8.1.2 CMDB SQL view issue (was Deleting Overlays - Nightmare)

2014-12-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
maintenance after any change to the form that view belongs to. You could end up having problems if you do not pay attention to that dependency. Joe From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent

Re: Friday Humor: The Promised Land...

2014-12-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
While not offensive, I saw it as the kind of joke your mom’s cousin Eddie would tell everyone at a family get together, especially since it came with a picture of that angry cartoon lady that is on greeting cards. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request

Remedy 8.1 and MAPI support

2015-02-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, We're looking to upgrade out version of Microsoft Office internally, as well as Exchange, and there is being a lot of pressure to get our Remedy server upgraded from using Outlook 2007 for MAPI inbound email. I've tried looking all over BMC's site, their compatibility matrix

Re: Remedy 8.1 and MAPI support

2015-02-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 9:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Remedy 8.1 and MAPI support ** Good morning, We're looking to upgrade out version of Microsoft Office internally, as well

Re: Remedy 8.1 and MAPI support

2015-02-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
. POP and IMAP are also not allowed in our environment. Just like Levi we setup an hMail server for our incoming email and it has been working great! The Email Engine has been more reliable since moving away from using Outlook. Jason On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier

Re: Need Suggestion

2015-01-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Most organizations that I’ve worked in where Incidents are created via a monitoring tool do that escalation on the monitoring tool’s side. That’s really where you want to look. Leave the Incidents for things that actually require human intervention. I would propose getting the monitoring

Re: ITSM Asset Management - Status Values

2015-01-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I want to chime in and concur with utilizing Status Reason, and while I’m not a big fan of it, that is something we’ve had to expand in our organization to account for hardware CIs in a terminal status. Examples include stolen, lost, recycled, etc. which are difficult to account for out of the

Re: BMC Support / On Site Visits

2015-01-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In your email you noted that you’ve been working with Remedy more than 15 years. I’ve been at this a while too, and from what I’ve seen, it’s not so much of an evolution of BMC, the Remedy tool, or anything external, it’s more a change in myself. If I were stuck figuring out whether it is a

Re: BMC Support / On Site Visits

2015-01-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't want to be that guy who complains all the time, but on 7.6.4 is completely hosed my system and there were a lot of headaches in fixing Tasks so that ITSM would be usable again. The only reason I installed it was because a BMC technical sales guy told me that it might allow me to get

Re: Remedy My IT Question.

2015-02-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
They do not need an AR System license, basically they use a Read license from that perspective. However, you have to police who uses My IT similarly to how SRM is licensed. I believe it’s generally based on how many people are working in your organization. However, be aware that this is

Re: Remedy My IT Question.

2015-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
, February 16, 2015 4:41 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** They do not need an AR System license, basically they use a Read license from that perspective. However, you have to police who uses My IT similarly to how SRM

Re: Knowledgebase design in SNow is almost the exact design as the Knowledgebase in Remedy...

2015-01-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Aren’t Hyundai the more reliable car of the two? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Saji Philip Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 7:45 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Last login time for a user

2015-03-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you need to do it retroactively, couldn't you use the AR System User Preferences form's Modified Date? I'm not entirely sure if it would work 100% of the time but I would investigate that as an option. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System

Re: Lotus Notes Email response back to Remedy

2015-03-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Couldn't you use the unique ID as a part of the Subject line of the email? For example, we look for something like %INC00% in our subject and update the notes of a matching Incident. We also have some things set up with hyperlinks that allow us to leverage the To line for logic, such as on

Re: Incident Sample

2015-03-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Sample ** Hi Shawn, This is a product defect. Kindly contact BMC Support to get hotfix. Thanks, Abhijit H On 03-Mar-2015 7:50 pm, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** Good morning, Users have reported a very strange issue to me

Re: MyIT/SmartIT First Impressions

2015-03-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thanks, I had forgotten that I had read about the second one being a problem before writing up my impressions. I read it in the documentation but hadn't actually set anyone outside of the Remedy team up to use SmartIT yet, but I agree completely. There's no reason to require elevating

Re: MyIT Connection Problem

2015-04-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Try navigating to the web interface on my mobile browser first. If that works, then it's probably something with the app. If that doesn't work on your mobile device but does work on your PC, then you're dealing with a firewall or network problem. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer |

Re: Atrium Integrator Spoon Tool Guide

2015-03-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
You should be able to find what you need from the link below. Click on the first link that gets displayed. It even has a Youtube video demonstrating how to create an import job from a spreadsheet to get you started. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Adocs.bmc.com+atrium+integrator+spoon Thanks,

Re: Incident Sample

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Incident Sample ** Hey Shawn, The 'incident sample' I believe is the OOTB incident creator in SRM. In RKM, you can raise an incident from an article. 'Incident sample' is the AOT. On Mar 3, 2015 8:20 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier

Re: MyIT/SmartIT First Impressions

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thanks. We're already using SRM to some degree so MyIT makes a lot of sense for us. In your situation though, I don't see the harm in having MyIT installed but unused. It doesn't seem to take up that much space and resources, sort of like that purchasing functionality in Asset Management

Re: MyIT/SmartIT First Impressions

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Doesn’t that bump up against the limitation of not being directly tied into Asset Management though? My understanding is that I could export the AM data to import into MyIT but it would have to be maintained separately to keep MyIT up to date if a printer is added or removed. That doesn’t

Re: MyIT/SmartIT First Impressions

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
IT related assets. Regards, Dmitry Baryshnikov On Mar 3, 2015 7:48 PM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** Doesn’t that bump up against the limitation of not being directly tied into Asset Management though? My understanding is that I

Incident Sample

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Users have reported a very strange issue to me. Basically, we are seeing Incidents created, apparently from SRM, with only a Summary populated that says Incident Sample. I turned on the option to create Service Requests when an Incident is manually created several years ago,

MyIT/SmartIT First Impressions

2015-03-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I thought I'd provide you all with my first impressions on MyIT and SmartIT. Basically, I set up a new development Remedy environment and took a copy of the production database so we'd have a good working proof of concept system. Last week, we installed MyIT and SmartIT and

Re: MyIT Services to Atrium CMDB Services

2015-02-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
://www.linkedin.com/pub/ben-cantatore/3/220/9a7/ From:Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com To:arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG, Date:02/24/2015 10:22 AM Subject:MyIT Services to Atrium CMDB Services Sent

MyIT Services to Atrium CMDB Services

2015-02-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I'm in the process of configuring my proof of concept MyIT/SmartIT box and came across something that seems strange to me. According to what I've been told, there's no direct connection between the Services that are configured in the CMDB and what exists in the Services used by

Re: Major Issue: AD Remedy

2015-03-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would build a staging form to update the People data from the spreadsheet, which should be sucked into your custom staging form by Atrium Integrator. I would make sure whoever maintains that spreadsheet agrees to keep everything in a specific format and use values that only exist in Remedy

Re: SRM Request Portal

2015-01-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Funny, I've been looking at modifying SRM and am working on something related to it right now, and happened to come across the solution to at least part of your request: https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-23501 Basically, you'll have to edit the jar file attached to the Data Visualization

Re: Engage 2015 Call for Papers

2015-01-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Isn’t that what SmartIT basically is? I know it doesn’t work with custom apps yet but I’d think that’s inevitable. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew Hicox Sent:

Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to Atrium Integrator, and I'm not really able to find much specific information about it in BMC's documentation. Basically, I have a job that fails with errors such as the following: 2015/04/27 08:39:11 - ARDatabase - ERROR (version

Re: Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
for running jobs...this should be the Application Service Password if I'm not mistakenset this properly and verify if it starts working. On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.commailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** Good morning, I’m

Re: Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
file and copy the long string password on line Remedy-App-Service-Password: long string and open UDM:RAppPassword and paste it on RApp Password field and make sure you have the correct Server Name. Virg On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier

Re: Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
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Re: Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
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Re: Can Remedy ITSM 7.6 workflow handle Powershell API calls?

2015-04-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We currently use PowerShell scripts tied to Tasks on Change Requests, which are submitted through SRM forms. The only human intervention is that someone fills out the SRM form, and someone else approves it. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer -Original Message-

SOLVED: Spoon Troubleshooting

2015-04-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, With some help from some off-list emails, a solution was discovered. Even though we were using a custom Connection in our CMDBOutput steps, apparently you still have to use the PDIREPO_server_port connections in some way. After opening the one for the same server as my custom

Re: Upgrade to 8.1.2

2015-04-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would suggest standing up a new server and using exports and the DMT to migrate data over. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Koyb P. Liabt Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Re: updating ITSM support tickets on mobile devices

2015-06-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd like to chime in on this. I'm by no means an expert, but I've had a lot of hands on experience with the last two versions of Smart IT and this current version is going to be what we go live with. However, I have a few observations. The first is that the changes between the last two

Re: updating ITSM support tickets on mobile devices

2015-06-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Smart IT is basically the replacement for Mobility. I have a lot of confidence in BMC that they will continue to improve the product on an aggressive schedule so the way I look at it, we could buy or build a custom solution that would take us through the end of the year, or we could simply

Re: Something to be aware of - the User Tool cannot work with overlaid forms on a 9.0 server.

2015-06-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you work with RBE it also becomes necessary because the RBE forms don’t really work right in the Mid Tier. I could customize the forms to fix them without a lot of effort, but it’s even easier just to load up the User Tool. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer From:

Re: REST issue with MyIT 2.5

2015-06-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have them up and running in my test environment and haven't run into these issues. I'm on Windows, SQL Server, etc. if that helps. I would suggest contacting BMC Support because it's too new of a platform for you to be able to get much help from here or BMCDN. The only general guideline I

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