RE: Announcements: Doug Mueller has left BMC, ARSlist will be shutting down on US Thanksgiving, Nov. 28th

2019-10-03 Thread Terry Bootsma
I remember sitting in Doug’s office (in the Remedy V1.1 years) and discussing this concept he had called “Flashboards”, …. LOL. Doug, a visionary for sure, you always had a unique perspective on any question or problem posed to you. Enjoy this next stage of your life. Enjoy your kids and

Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: Securing Sensitive WO Information

2017-08-22 Thread Terry Bootsma
While entry row-level access can do what you want, I've implemented something different that might meet your needs and you may want to think about. I've created a special type of Work Log (Secure Work Log) and only allowed users with certain permissions to view, report, etc. on this type of work

Re: Service Action and Set Field Scenario

2016-04-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
Madhu: One of the reasons you may consider Service Actions is that these actions do not run with "User" permissions on the server. That means that you can retrieve/access information from the server that you may not have access to via your permissions (active links) when running on the client

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

2015-12-29 Thread Terry Bootsma
OK. I guess I'm not the only one that found this as well. Trying to export a .arx file with the MidTier is a lesson in patience and sometimes, futility.(Hint Hint Doug !!). I thought that perhaps there was a "trick" to do this via the MidTier and that I was missing the boat on this one,

Web Service performance - MidTier

2015-11-24 Thread Terry Bootsma
Environment: MidTier Version: 8.1.SP02 Patch 001 201506122355 Hotfix Java Version: 1.8.0_40 Web Server: Apache Tomcat/7.0.53 OS : Red Hat Linux I'd be interested in getting feedback from anyone who is utilizing BMC Web Services and their performance when it comes to larger amounts of

Re: Email Struggles

2015-10-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
Warren: Sounds like your cert has expired on your server that is running the Remedy Email client. All certs have an expiry date. You will have to go to your server management group and have them re-issue the cert for this server (from your cert provider, whomever that is). Then, you can

Re: ARS 8.0. RedHat 5 = 6 migration

2015-08-20 Thread Terry Bootsma
We had some issues with Java 8 on ITSM 8.1.01 with Web reporting not working in the midtier. We had to go back to Java 7 on our midtiers. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of frex popo Sent: August-20-15 2:39 AM To:

Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Terry Bootsma
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] ON BEHALF OF Terry Bootsma SENT: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM TO: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG SUBJECT: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL... Just a note Joe. Depending upon the amount of data

Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
Just a note Joe. Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web services. I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that the mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of

Re: a thread I haven't seen yet about BMC:Engage

2015-08-16 Thread Terry Bootsma
I will be there as well. Looking forward to it. I agree with Dan that the agenda looks good this year. I was cleaning out a filing cabinet last week and found this in mint condition. (see attached). Dan... perhaps I can exchange this for a hat button?? :-) Terry

Re: a thread I haven't seen yet about BMC:Engage

2015-08-16 Thread Terry Bootsma
I also found this what it used to cost to get trained in ARSystem 3.X and 4. :-) Terry From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel Sent:

Re: Help: Impacted Area Associations Deleted on Change Tickets

2015-06-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi Jamie: Yes, we saw the same behavior. Thankful that we were able to catch this in the test environment prior to moving this into production. Once they are gone, they are gone... :-( The key here is this: If you have a CI related to a change request and you have impacted areas When

Re: Remedy RBE in ITSM 8.1

2015-05-13 Thread Terry Bootsma
Just be aware that if you accept inbound emails, you should have a method to scan any attachments for viruses Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Martinez, Marcelo A Sent: May-13-15 2:12 PM To:

Re: Email engine not working

2015-04-25 Thread Terry Bootsma
Looks like you are not authenticating correctly to your mail relay. I would check that first. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sandeep Pandey Sent: April-25-15 2:40 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Email

Re: How to remove overlay

2015-04-22 Thread Terry Bootsma
I would agree that this is a daunting task. I remember holding my breath the first time I did it... LOL ! A nice little Delete Overlay vs. Delete would have been nice in the GUI. Terry On 2015-04-22 11:11, LJ LongWing wrote: ** Tim, Removing an overlay seems a bit daunting till

Modify window appearing, not the query list in a browser - AST:AssetPeople

2015-03-20 Thread Terry Bootsma
Happy Friday everyone! OK, this is going to be a quick one for someone to answer. Darn Friday gremlins... :-) ITSM 8.1.01 running on ARSystem 8.1.01 on Linux and Tomcat. We are trying to query AST:AssetPeople. Simple. Trying to get a query-list back in the browser. However, everytime we

Re: Modify window appearing, not the query list in a browser - AST:AssetPeople

2015-03-20 Thread Terry Bootsma
. The table is small and hard to read, but that is the results list of your query. Hope that helps (or at least explains it), Thad On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: ** Happy Friday everyone! OK, this is going to be a quick one

How to configure TLS 1.1 or 1.2 transport protocol on outgoing web-service calls from ARSystem

2015-03-18 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hello ARSListers: This is a very specific technical question, so if anyone can help or has had experience configuring this, I would definitely appreciate any response. We are using Remedy 8.1.01 on Linux with the following java version: java version 1.7.0_09-icedtea OpenJDK Runtime

Re: web service logging

2015-03-12 Thread Terry Bootsma
[2] Now it get srange because I can't call the external url from my production server either, but when I run the same script against prod it creates the incident as it is suppose to do. On Wed, 3/11/15, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com

Re: web service logging

2015-03-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
Scott: If you are consuming your remedy-based web service from another application (other than Remedy itself) , it will not utilize the java plugin server. The java plugin server is only used for outbound web-service calls from Remedy. You should be able to see your web services being

Re: web service logging

2015-03-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
service. On Wed, 3/11/15, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: Subject: Re: web service logging To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 12:46 PM ** Scott: If you are consuming your remedy-based web service from

Re: Importing Overlays Error - Remedy 8.1 SP2

2015-01-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
Brad: We had a similar issue and had to get a patch to Developer Studio to fix Custom Field Corruptions. If you have this patch installed, you should be able to right click on a form in Dev Studio and at the bottom have a menu that says: Analyze Corruptions-Analyze Custom Field Corruptions

Poor Web service peformance on Remedy join forms

2015-01-06 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hello everyone: I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Environment: Red Hat Linux 6.4 Mid Tier 8.1.01 SP1 20140514135 Hotfix Apache Tomcat 6.0 Remedy Server 8.1.01 201401281910 Oracle Database When consuming web services that are based on join forms in Remedy, we have

Re: Poor Web service peformance on Remedy join forms

2015-01-06 Thread Terry Bootsma
For further information: Remedy User Tool against the join form: 1 second MidTier direct access against the join form: 5 seconds So, it is not a join-form or indexing issue. Terry On 2015-01-06 12:12, tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: Hello everyone: I was wondering if anyone

Re: Poor Web service peformance on Remedy join forms

2015-01-06 Thread Terry Bootsma
guess you could log and compare and check where the time is consumed when using the WS. If API + SQL calls are the same, then it's « elsewhere ». Le 6 janv. 2015 à 18:15, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com a écrit : ** For further information: Remedy User Tool against

Re: Web Service data format

2014-11-14 Thread Terry Bootsma
Mark: In the following format (ex. Requested_Start_Date for Change) urn:Requested_Start_Date2014-12-01T02:00:00-04:00/urn:Requested_Start_Date GMT date/time plus the Timezone offset. I use it from SOAP-UI and it works great. Terry On 2014-11-14 14:49, Brittain, Mark wrote: **

Re: Deleting Overlays - Nightmare

2014-10-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
Claire: The fact that your prod db was changed when you deleted your overlays in Dev Studio when connecting to RemTST tells me that maybe you didn't update your database connection from your RemTST VM to point to the test database? I know it is pretty obvious, but that is the only reason I

Re: One Server from Server Group getting SQL error

2014-10-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
Sounds definitely like an Oracle configuration issue. Would be interesting to open multiple sqlplus sessions using your Oracle Remedy-account, and see what happens... Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian

Re: Menus not appearing in MidTier in AST forms

2014-08-22 Thread Terry Bootsma
Rebecca: That is EXACTLY what we did a few days ago. Interesting ! We will try to re-add it. Terry On 2014-08-22 13:17, Boyd, Rebecca wrote: ** We saw this very same issue recently when we turned on auditing for some fields in the CMDB. When we looked at the AST: forms in base

Menus not appearing in MidTier in AST forms

2014-08-21 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi everyone: ARSystem 8.1.01 Patch 001 (ARsystem and MidTier) + MidTier HotFix 201405141350 ITSM 8.1 Patch 001 Red Hat Linux Apache Tomcat 6.0 Wondering if anyone has seen this before. We have modified the default view in AST:ComputerSystem by adding fields to AST:Attributes and

Re: https vs http when using web service and a load balancer.

2014-08-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
: ** Hi Terry, I'm also facing the same issue.what change you have implemented to fix this?. Please advise. Regards, Suresh Loganathan. On Aug 7, 2014 8:27 PM, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: ** John: Thanks for your feedback. I implemented the recommended

Re: OT: Contract vs FTE

2014-08-07 Thread Terry Bootsma
I thought I would chime in on this thread... I have been in the Remedy consulting world since 1997. I have pretty much seen it all, including my share of poorely executed and excellent implementations by both other contractors and FTEs. I don't think anyone can say whether a better job is

Re: https vs http when using web service and a load balancer.

2014-08-07 Thread Terry Bootsma
John: Thanks for your feedback. I implemented the recommended changes and it worked perfectly! Terry On 2014-08-05, John Baker wrote: Hello, I would suggest you review the Tomcat connector documentation: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html [1] and in

https vs http when using web service and a load balancer.

2014-08-05 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi everyone: I was wondering if anyone came across this before when developing and consuming Remedy Web Services: ARSystem - 8.1.01 ITSM - 8.1.01 Here is the configuration: I have two mid-tiers running on port 8080 (tomcat) front-ended by a load-balancer that has a virtual-IP and

Re: ENGAGE

2014-07-28 Thread Terry Bootsma
I believe early bird pricing expires July 31st. So, if the agenda is out today or tomorrow, that is just under the wire. However, I had to make a call last week, so I registered and paid for the conference with the understanding that I could de-register up to a certain date with a $75.00

Re: ENGAGE

2014-07-28 Thread Terry Bootsma
Chowdhury Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 4:52 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE ** Is that like the good faith deposit at a car dealer? Say goodbye to that $75! Hehe Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: ** I believe early bird

Re: Remedy 8.1.01 Upgrade Issues

2014-06-24 Thread Terry Bootsma
Chris: Make sure you use SLM 8.1.01 SP1 not SLM 8.1 GA when upgrading. SLM 8.1 GA deletes a bunch of ITSM objects. Terry -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: June-24-14 10:55 AM To:

Re: ITSM 8.1 SP1 - Content missing ?

2014-05-22 Thread Terry Bootsma
Well everyone: This is a pretty big miss on behalf of BMC. It should have been communicated a lot earlier in the process and via all means possible (like on the EPD site where people download SLM 8.1 GA !! ). I went from installing SLM 8.1 GA on ITSM 8.1 Patch 002 (no problems) onto ITSM 8.1

Re: ITSM 8.1 SP1 - Content missing ?

2014-05-21 Thread Terry Bootsma
Vivek: Let me ask you something. I did not see this Installation Alert before installing SLM 8.1 GA onto my ITSM 8.1 SP1 install.Now that I have, can I simply install this hotfix and it will take care of everything? (or am I out of luck) ? Please advise. Terry _ From:

Re: ITSM - HPD:Help Desk What is wrong with this statement?

2014-03-21 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi Claire... You don't have your brackets in the right place... The way you had it, it was behaving exactly add you described.  See corrected below... (Inline) Terry On Mar 21, 2014 11:31 AM, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: Very simple. If the Closure Prod Cats

Re: Slightly OT: Saas vs On Premise...

2014-02-24 Thread Terry Bootsma
Joe: One major issue that I have come across is your first Disadvantage # 2, off premise location of data. Depending upon your client, this could become an issue as certain clients insist that data stay within the country and must address certain security standards. This would be one of the

A simple question on Hardware Product Catalogs

2014-02-21 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hello everyone: I have a relatively simple question which I am hoping to get answered. If I have an environment that does not include ADDM (at this time) and I want to have a pretty standardized list of hardware product catalog entries (ie. Routers, Servers, Manufacturer, with CTI, Product

Re: Why does the ARS Service take so long to start?

2014-02-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
I wouldn't think that object relationships would have an issue on server start-up (other than the first time it is built). I was under the impression that this is something that is loaded and referenced on demand by Developer Studio. While it certainly does affect the size of your database, I

Re: How to install Crystal Web Viewer w/out midtier in 8.1

2013-12-05 Thread Terry Bootsma
Elyse: You are not the first one to experience this. The short answer is No. You must install the midtier on the BO server. No work-arounds. Sorry. I've worked with BMC Support extensively regarding this issue and, at this point, you must install the midtier. Terry -Original

Re: SRD creating a CI in class BMC_REQUESTABLEOFFERING

2013-12-03 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi Atul: This is part of modelling your Business Services . If you look at the BMC Atrium documentation about how to build your Service Model, you will find reference to Requestable Offerings there. If you are creating SRDs without a Service Model, well you're going to have to handle

Re: Crystal Reports - AR System ODBC Database Connection

2013-09-20 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi Elyse: I think you may be out of luck, but I'll let the others chime in here. BTW, you can configure your Crystal Reports (in V11 anyway) to dynamically pull the ODBC settings from the ODBC connection instead of embedding them in each Crystal report. That way, they are not hard coded in the

Re: Web Service Get Operations behavior...

2013-09-18 Thread Terry Bootsma
Joe: I have seen this in the past as well. In order to get around this, I designed the web service a little differently. It may work for you as well, in your situation, but it depends upon the amount of information you are querying and how you want results returned. Rather than publish a Get

Re: Enhancements to Developer Studio on ARS v8.1

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Bootsma
So this applies only to code (ie. as it says below, Active links, filters, escalations). Not end-user queries, correct? Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Hullule, Kiran Sent: August-29-13 9:26 AM To:

Re: Enhancements to Developer Studio on ARS v8.1

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Bootsma
too. Also this is applicable to all type of forms except vendor, view, display-only, and join type of forms. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 7:08 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject

Re: [EXTERNAL] Service Desk agents experience delays when opening Templates in Remedy while using Internet Explorer 9.

2013-08-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
I've experienced that as well. Without knowing which version of ARS/ITSM you are running, I would suggest the following (Applies to 7.6.04 SP4) Problem due to IE9/Flash and there are two choices: 1. You can downgrade your Flash to version 10.2 or 2. You can disable the Flash UI rendering

Re: Remedy and Flash

2013-08-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:05 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Service Desk agents experience delays when opening Templates in Remedy while using Internet Explorer 9. ** I've experienced that as well

Re: ITSM Web services

2013-05-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
I would agree with the 3 separate staging form approach. It gives you the versatility of being able to update features on one set without having to re-test all the other scenarios associated with the other set(s). It is also more modular and can be upgraded/taken off line separately. Terry

Re: ARS 8.1 Server Groups - but 1 outside slightly

2013-05-15 Thread Terry Bootsma
A couple of suggestions related to your architecture, but not necessarily your question: If you are adding the additional server as part of your server group to handle admin, recon, interfaces, etc. (ie. a lot of heavy liftingi), and if you have a load-balancer in front of these remedy servers,

An Email sent by my email address - My Apologies

2013-05-13 Thread Terry Bootsma
harvested from my Outlook email address book. The issue originated via a public WI-FI site while I was on vacation. Steps have been made to address this issue. Thank you for your understanding. Terry Bootsma

Re: Taking a database backup with ARServer running.

2013-04-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
Good database backups do two things; (a) Take a database backup (b) Take a transaction log backup during the time that the database backup was running (included in the backup) As I am sure you already know, this is one of the differences between a SQL database backup and an MS Access DB

Re: An unexpected fork in the road...

2013-04-05 Thread Terry Bootsma
David: As background, I've been involved in Remedy development and consulting for over 17 years (since V1.1). Over the later years, I've attended many of your presentations at many WWRUGS and it has always been a pleasure to listen and talk to someone in Product Management that not only

Re: Date/Time format in Webservice

2012-12-09 Thread Terry Bootsma
Try this: 2012-04-01T13:44:12-05:00, where -05:00 at the end specifies the time zone offset... Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Saraswat, Praveen Sent: December-09-12 8:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

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

2012-10-25 Thread Terry Bootsma
Yes. Missed voting this year, but won't make it two in a row for sure. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew Fremont Sent: October-25-12 5:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: You need to VOTE on the

Re: Configuring companies and multi-tenancy

2012-08-02 Thread Terry Bootsma
To expand on Carl's note below, I've also used this approach for Service Request Definitions. But beware, with a large number of companies, the Field 112 on the SRD has a limitation of 255 chars. There is also the issue of updating each SRD every time a new company comes on board. To

Re: Crystal Report Dynamic Parameter Issue (UNCLASSIFIED)

2012-06-26 Thread Terry Bootsma
OK. Thought I would chime in here. I've seen this before, and it is related to how you have designed your Crystal Report. With Crystal Report Designer open and your editing your Crystal report, go to Database-Set Datasource Location Under the Properties of the ARSystem ODBC Data Source,

List of ITSM Web Services

2012-06-25 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hello everyone: Well, it's a Monday... :-) I can't, find out where the list of ITSM 7.6 (04) Web Services are documented. I've been through the documentation on the support site and can't seem to find it. I'm sure it's a minor oversight. Can anyone help out? Thx. Terry

Re: List of ITSM Web Services

2012-06-25 Thread Terry Bootsma
Of Terry Bootsma Sent: 25 June 2012 20:38 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: List of ITSM Web Services ** Hello everyone: Well, it's a Monday... :-) I can't, find out where the list of ITSM 7.6 (04) Web Services are documented. I've been through the documentation on the support site

Re: Product Categorization for Remedy 7.6.04

2012-05-30 Thread Terry Bootsma
... and. fields on the tab make it more intuitive when it comes to querying via the QBE window. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Nathan Aker Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:58 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-30 Thread Terry Bootsma
How about calling a filter guide that calls the WSDL until the output doesn't equal Pending . (to prevent run-away code, put in a counter to a maximum of 10 calls) If you find output != Pending, then simply exit the guide and continue processing. Terry _ From: Action Request

Re: PAUSE or SLEEP a filters in between actions...

2012-05-30 Thread Terry Bootsma
, but with a higher cost on the network.. It was given a thought and discarded because of the costs involved.. Joe From: Terry Bootsma mailto:tboot...@objectpath.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:27 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: PAUSE

Remedy Approved Consultant - Is it still a valid handle?

2012-05-29 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hello arslist! If possible, I would like to verify whether the term Remedy Approved Consultant is still a valid certification status for BMC/Remedy. I cannot see any reference to this terminology on BMC's education web site (unless I am missing it). It only seems to mention Certified

Re: ARS 7.6.03 performance problems

2012-05-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
Hi Larry Sounds strange... I have seen SQL queries degrade in performance over time depending on the query execution plan, the amount of change to the data, and the statistics that are utilized by the query engine, but it doesn't describe why re-starting arsystem fixes the problem.

Re: 7.6.04 (multi-tenancy) Change Management and Service CI's...

2012-05-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
Have you tried keeping the company field on the service ci  populated with the previous value and creating a used by people-organization relationship to the new company? That should make the service available   By creating multiple used-by relationships, you can control who sees the

Re: 7.6.04 (multi-tenancy) Change Management and Service CI's...

2012-05-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
wrote: ** Terry, Thanks for the reply.  Your suggestion works in INC, but oddly not in CHG. r On 5/17/2012 8:44 AM, Terry Bootsma wrote: ** Have you tried keeping the company field on the service ci  populated with the previous value and creating a used by people-organization relationship

Re: 7.6.04 (multi-tenancy) Change Management and Service CI's...

2012-05-17 Thread Terry Bootsma
Sent from my mobile device.. Rick Phillips r...@netfirst.com wrote: ** yep, that may be plan A.  I was checking out NULL values in the Service CI as plan B. On 5/17/2012 8:50 AM, Terry Bootsma wrote: ** ...and.. That is surprising? Lol Not sure how I could expand upon this other than

Re: Adding HR Department to ITSM Application using Multi-tenancy

2012-05-16 Thread Terry Bootsma
Similiar to what Brian mentions below, I think you have no other option than writing your own filter to overwrite the row level access fields during certain key incident events. However, you will also have to determine the business rules as to when you want to overwrite the access, and when you

Re: Crystal report issue on joining the forms in crystal

2012-04-24 Thread Terry Bootsma
I believe the ODBC driver does not support you joining forms within Crystal. You must define the join in Remedy first, then you can report on it via Crystal. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Wirasat Siddiqi Sent:

Re: Bizarre BST/GMT problems?

2012-03-28 Thread Terry Bootsma
Dave: have you tried logging in with two different user ids from the same workstation that is experiencing the timezone issue,.to see if it is common to all users using that workstation? I have seem cases where a users 'arsystem user preferences' has caused similar issues, thinking that it is

Re: arapprove plugin failure

2011-09-26 Thread Terry Bootsma
Let me guess ARSystem 7.5 patch 006? ITSM 7.6.01 ? From what I can see, this is the approval server crashing. We have the same issue and starting experiencing it once we started implementing multi-tenancy within change management and different approval rules. Working with BMC, but to no

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
IMHO... a password reset should just be an incident. A change is something that affects the attributes or status of a configuration item. If you track passwords as a configuration item, then by all means, create a change. Otherwise, it should be an incident. Terry _ From: Action

Re: 7.6.04 - Delayed support group notification e-mails

2011-09-02 Thread Terry Bootsma
I would suggest that you first check out your escalation pools to ensure that the escalation is processing the notification in a timely manner. Refer to the ITSM Notification Engine documentation for details. Terry _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: VM Clone for ARS 7.6.04

2011-09-02 Thread Terry Bootsma
Also.. .don't forget that cloning the environment requires you to make changes to your local config files and registry settings if your cloning it to a new server name.Like below, we don't clone the DB server but clone the app/web servers between dev/test/prod. Terry _ From:

Re: VM Clone for ARS 7.6.04

2011-09-02 Thread Terry Bootsma
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma Sent: 02 September 2011 13:22 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: VM Clone for ARS 7.6.04 ** Also.. .don't forget that cloning the environment requires you to make changes to your local

Web client active link logging. How do I enable this?

2011-08-03 Thread Terry Bootsma
** OK. this is probably a very simple question, but I've been a big fan of the WUT for a while for helping me debug active link and filters via filter logging.However, I now have a situation where the web client is behaving differentlythan the WUT. I'd liketo turn on active link logging for the

Re: Web client active link logging. How do I enable this?

2011-08-03 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks for the feedback guys! That works great. I'm not quite on 7.6.04 yet, but thanks for the heads up Chris.Terry On Aug 3, 2011, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: ** Its not there anymore. Im fighting the exact same problem right now while trying to get my customizations to 7.0 to run again

Re: Each Group control only their assets and not having access to other group's assets

2011-07-12 Thread Terry Bootsma
** The other option would be to give these users "Asset User" permissions, then control their update access to the CI via the "Support By" relationships in the people tab (to their support group).Now, this would give these users the ability to view all CMDB Configuration items for their Company,

Re: Creating bulk assets - Remedy 7.6.03

2011-06-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
Regarding bulk loading How are people importing People relationships (ie. Supported By, Owned By, etc.) via the AIE tool for a specific CI? I couldn't see a OOB method to do this through the tools that BMC provides via AIE. The Supported By relationships control who has edit capability to

Re: Creating bulk assets - Remedy 7.6.03

2011-06-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 3:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Creating bulk assets - Remedy 7.6.03 ** Regarding bulk loading How are people importing People relationships (ie. Supported

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Terry Bootsma
** This is covered in Chapter 1 - BMC Atrium 7.6 Administrator's Manual . Page 13.It discusses what you want to do and how to accomplish it.Terry On May 26, 2011, Mahendra Mahalkar mahendra.mahal...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi, I have been aske to restrict support group level access to CIs. Is this

Re: ITSM Integration Decisions

2011-05-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
** I've been in the Remedy space for +15 years and have interfaced just about everything with everything... :-) Terje's point below is a very good one. Maintainability is only second, in my opinion, to the transactional integrity of the interface. If you need to ensure transactional integrity (ie.

Re: Closed Tasks appearing in Overview Console

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Bootsma
** I had the exact same problem with the exact same configuration. We worked with BMC, but the hotfix did not address all of the issues. I'll send along a .def file today along with install instructions. Terry On Feb 9, 2011, Tommy Morris tommy.mor...@radioshack.com wrote: ** I have a hotfix for

Re: Approvals hanging up

2011-01-25 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Anne:we have the exact configuration (on Windows 2003) and do not experience the issue below..Terry On Jan 25, 2011, Ramey, Anne anne.ra...@nc.gov wrote: ** Has no one else with ITSM 7.6 p1 seen this issue in change? Im not sure why we would see it in one system and not another. I tried

Re: Problem Management and Tasks

2011-01-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
** In 7.6 if there are outstanding tasks when you close the problem, it auto-closes all tasks as "Closed-Cancelled". This is OOB behavior.Terry On Jan 19, 2011, Vianna Vianna vianna...@hotmail.com wrote: ** Hi AllWe currently have Problem Management V. 7.0.03 patch 009Often times a Problem ticket

License tracking in AR System Historical License Usage

2011-01-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Hello list:ITSM 7.6 Patch 001Windows 2003 Server platform.ARServer 7.5 Patch 006We are looking into the form called "AR System Historical License Usage" and have logging of license statistics turned onfor our server (Enable License Tracking option isset). However, all we are getting entered

Re: Question about ITSM 7.6.03 support group model...

2011-01-16 Thread Terry Bootsma
Keith: I think that there might be an easier way. If you create a local support as Company A, and the National Support as Company B, then you can make support groups in Company B available for selection in Company A if you modify the row-level access characteristics of the rows in CTM:Support

Some questions regarding ITSM 7.6.03/ARSystem 7.6 and the new web-reports option...

2010-11-11 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Hi arslist!Thought I would pose these questions so thatall those who are "up to speed" on the latest ITSM 7.6.03 release could answer. I've looked through the release notes on ITSM 7.6.03 and ARsystem 7.6, but am not sureand still have some questions. Specifically.. (1) Does ITSM 7.6 Patch

Re: Has anyone got Tasks working in ITSM 7.6 Patch 001 - Service Desk Module

2010-09-29 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thank you Dale!Terry On Sep 29, 2010, Dale Jones d...@dcshq.com wrote: ** Terry, The issues below have been fixed and addressed. Defect Summary - Task is opened in background when the selected Task is Double clicked on (Issue is found the Task or Childor Task Group tables.)

Has anyone got Tasks working in ITSM 7.6 Patch 001 - Service Desk Module

2010-09-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Hi everyone:SendI am wondering if anyone else is having difficulty with the OOB Task implementation within Service Desk ITSM 7.6 Patch 001 (Windows).We are upgrading from 7.1 to 7.6 and one of the features that we use is the Task features associated with Incident Management. However, the 7.6

Re: Has anyone got Tasks working in ITSM 7.6 Patch 001 - Service Desk Module

2010-09-23 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks for your update Shane...Terry On Sep 23, 2010, Shane Buchholz sha...@samhealth.org wrote: We experienced both of these issues when we implemented as well. a) I dont know if a bug has been reported on this particular issue, but the behavior is different depending on how you access the

Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Environment: Windows Server 2003 SP2 virtualized under VMWare ESX 3.5 Core system: ARSystem 7.5 patch 5 Assignment Engine (7.5) Approval Engine (7.5) Flashboards (7.5) Email Engine (7.5) Applications: Incident Management (7.6 Patch 001) Change Management (7.6 Patch 001) Release Management

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
: ** Is the DB installed on this VM as well? The biggest gotcha I've come across is make sure the MAC address gets changed on the 2nd VM. When you boot the VM make sure you choose "I copied it". This should change the MAC address but check to make sure. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Terry Boo

Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Software: ITSM 7.1 and 7.6 - Incident ManagementHi everyone:My second arslist post in the same day! Wow... this must be something... :-)I've done some investigation into how a person or group would generate a report ofall incidents that they have worked on for the last "N" days using the OOB

Re: Copying virtualized ITSM server to another VMWare instance - Is it possible? Have you done it?

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
? The biggest gotcha I've come across is make sure the MAC address gets changed on the 2nd VM. When you boot the VM make sure you choose "I copied it". This should change the MAC address but check to make sure. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Terry Bootsma tboot...@objectpath.com wrote: ** E

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks for your feedback so far...The issue I see with Status History is that it represents the "last" user and time that this incident was assigned during the incident lifecycle. If this incident goes from one person to another, reporting via Status History will miss the original assignee and

Re: Reporting : How do I get a list of Incidents that I have worked on last week

2010-07-27 Thread Terry Bootsma
** Thanks Rebecca et al...I looked at this join form, but it does not have any other dates other than the incident reported date. Because it is a join form, it doesn't have an associated create date like another arslist'r suggested earlier.I can't believe this isn't OOB...Terry On Jul 27, 2010,

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