Re: AIE/CMDB Question

2011-04-13 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Kevin, This may a little bit of an obvious question but confirm that when you want to do your search, you begin from the Asset Management Console and have selected your test dataset. The reason why I ask this is that the dataset field gets default populated with the BMC.ASSET (production

Re: Separate floating licences

2009-11-30 Thread Webster, Basil
What does the manual say about license pools? We did this in 6.3 with license pools. There is a bit of work to do to get it right. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Southern Africa IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure Operations 300 Janadel Avenue,

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2009-11-30 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi, Have you tried setting their home page to the other one in their preferences in the user tool? Kind Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Southern Africa IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure Operations 300 Janadel Avenue, Halfway House, 1685 T :

Re: Task Flow bugs corrected

2009-10-27 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Chuck, Thanks for this info. We have ITSM 7.0 installed, patch 8 and the tasks are a serious problem for us. Busy making your recommended changes to our dev environment so that we can test. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Southern Africa IT Solutions and

General Question on ITSM Administration and Configuration

2009-10-26 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, Trust the weekend was good to you. I have a general enquiry regarding your experiences on the general configuration and admin of your systems. I am a developer and in our organization, my team have traditionally done all of this. However, since we implemented ITSM around 5 months

Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ?

2009-10-22 Thread Webster, Basil
Server 2005 , are you talking about MS SQL Management Studio ? Thanks, Ravi On Oct 21, 11:23 pm, Webster, Basil basil.webs...@siemens.com wrote: Hi Raj, What is the error you get in the arerror log file. Is it something like unable to contact the database? We use SQL and I have often found

Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ?

2009-10-22 Thread Webster, Basil
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Webster, Basil Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:57 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ? Hi Raj, Yes, I mean the SQL Management Studio in the case 2005. In 2000

Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ?

2009-10-22 Thread Webster, Basil
list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Webster, Basil Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:42 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ? Well it is obvious that the app cannot connect to the DB. Are there any other applications in the environment

Re: Where to make changes for DOMAIN change ?

2009-10-21 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Raj, What is the error you get in the arerror log file. Is it something like unable to contact the database? We use SQL and I have often found that you need to load the SQL client tools on the app server before the AR Server will connect, even though you can ping or tracert to the db server.

ITSM 7.0 Reporting - Time Taken To Repair

2009-09-23 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, We are running ITSM 7.0 and have not been able to find how to run a report which reflects the time it has taken for a ticket to be resolved. Basically from assigned to resolved, taking business hours and holidays into consideration. We run all our reports out of Business Objects

Re: ITSM 7.0 Reporting - Time Taken To Repair

2009-09-23 Thread Webster, Basil
. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Webster, Basil Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7.0 Reporting - Time Taken To Repair ** Hi All, We are running ITSM 7.0 and have not been able to find

Re: Anybody running their prod system on VMWARE?

2009-08-25 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Jack, We are using VMWare to run our applications machine. It is ESX Ver3.5 and our organization is shortly going to upgrade to 4. This version allows more resource allocation in terms of CPU and RAM. Currently we have 4 x CPU and 4GB RAM and have 65 fixed and 80 floating licenses allocated

Re: Suggestions wanted for backing up....

2009-03-04 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Richard, We have a similar situation. I have no idea of how Tivoli operates but we are using a network backup product called NetBackup. Having had the unfortunate experience of having to recover from a hardware failure, I got the bad news that the backup guys could not create a server in

Re: Discovery Tools

2008-09-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Gordon, John is quite right that those integration kits are available for download, free. I don't think they are supported but speak under correction. We looked at the Lan2CMDB as we have LanDesk as our discovery tool. The download basically gives you everything which is great but, there is

Re: Error while saving Active Link

2008-09-16 Thread Webster, Basil
I have come across this a few times before. If Tyrone's suggestion does not work then you have a bigger problem. The problem would be that there used to be an AL with that name, someone tried to delete it but it did not delete properly (maybe someone tried to create it and it did not create

Re: Multiple Instance of ARS 6.3 on Shared database

2008-09-12 Thread Webster, Basil
We used to have this type of config on a reporting server before. One AR server was updated weekly (SQL restore) and the other monthly. I our case there were only read actions happening. The server that it was on was not a very wow machine (2 x 2ghx CPU, 4 gb RAM) and it handled it. At the time

ARAdmin pwd change via User Tool - SQL 2005

2008-07-17 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, We have just installed ITSM (Incident, Problem, Change, CMDB, Asset), AR Server V7.1, all with latest patches. OS is MS Win Server 2003 R2 with SQL2005 Ent. It is part of our install process, after the initial install, to change the default password for ARAdmin but we get a SQL

BMC Remedy Virtual Environment Support Statement of Direction

2008-04-03 Thread Webster, Basil
I need a copy of this document for BMC AR Server V7.1, can someone perhaps send a copy to me? The support site is not helpful at all. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Remedy Developer Local Production Centre Infrastructure Operations Siemens

View Field Problem

2007-10-18 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, I have got what is probably going to turn out to be a simple problem, but the resolution is eluding me at present. I created a view field with a simple bit of html text. The field has public permissions only. The text is - marquee behavior=alternatePlace your text here/marquee. On

Re: View Field Problem - Resolved

2007-10-18 Thread Webster, Basil
when you try to set it to that field? Joe D'Souza -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Webster, Basil Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:14 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject

Re: Does anyone know what constitutes a DSO update transfer

2007-09-13 Thread Webster, Basil
Why not have a trigger field? Say a radio button, Yes\No. Only when this trigger is activated, set to Yes, does your DSO filter fire. Add it to the last set fields. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Remedy Developer Local Production Centre

Re: SOS From A novice to ARSystem

2007-06-22 Thread Webster, Basil
We don't use ITSM but you should be able to do this in the form called User. This is one of the base forms that is imported with the ARS layer, same as group. I would think that you should also have the 3 fixed licenses, incl the one that Demo is using, available to use. You will still be limited

Re: View Form Issue

2007-06-13 Thread Webster, Basil
I use a number of view forms in the same manner and I always set the record ID field to int, 4. Never had a problem with this. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Remedy Developer Local Production Centre Infrastructure Operations Siemens Southern

Re: Running the Perform-Acrion-Exit-App Run Process

2007-02-20 Thread Webster, Basil
I have never used the Set Change Flag but I do know that you won't be asked this the question if you select Disable Change Flag for each field. Obviously this would be a tedious operation for a large form. It's just another option, if you were looking for one. Regards, Basil Webster Remedy

Re: How to check that the Remedy User is using a version accepted and if not, is automatically logged out?

2007-02-19 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Daniel, If the server is on V6.3 patch 18 and I want to stop anything less than patch 12 connecting, how would this be displayed or can you only stop lesser versions connecting? Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Business Services (Pty) Ltd * E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to check that the Remedy User is using a version accepted and if not, is automatically logged out?

2007-02-19 Thread Webster, Basil
, and -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webster, Basil Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How to check that the Remedy User is using a version accepted and if not, is automatically

Workflow \ Performance \ Migration Tools

2007-02-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, Since Master AR Suite was dropped we have been looking for an app \ tool to aid in migrations, comparisons, finding workflow, documentation etc. Currently we are taking a look at the Panacea Workflow Studio. It is a big plus that they can give an evaluation on performance of workflow.

Re: SLA Due Date question.

2007-01-04 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Dan, Slightly different spin. What about recording the pending start date\time and end date\time and then add it to the SLA fix by time? Whilst the ticket is in pending, stop the clock, ie escalations don't run on it. When it comes out of pending, do the time calculation and add it onto

Re: Email Template problem

2007-01-04 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi David, Michael hit the nail on the head there (with both of his examples), however, just for interest sakes, if you run row level access, you cannot give ID 1 public permissions as this would defeat the object. We had this exact problem and all we did was to create another field that gets

Re: Archiving Data in Remedy

2006-12-01 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Jase, We have tried to use the built in archiving on numerous occasions and it let us down badly. From the archive form not being accessible to adding of fields etc. These can lead to the loss of data. What we did was use a similar approach as Remedy but build our own. We took the

Re: Large transactions

2006-11-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Kelly, I am not sure if I'm completely off track here, but it sounds like you need to produce a CSV file for an integration into some other app. If it is, then my story below will make sense and I agree with Rick. We have had to do an integration to SAP where the customer did not want

Very slow Cache ReLoad

2006-11-16 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, Our Dev Server Config:- Single Server running App and db, Win 2000 SP4, SQL 2000 SP4, AR 6.3 Patch 18. Question 1:- When running an ARSignal or reload, the server takes about a day to populate the group_cache table. All during this time we get the ARERR 92 Timeout but is

Re: Converting Remedy Datetime for SQL Query

2006-10-30 Thread Webster, Basil
This is what I have and I've never had a problem. dateadd(second, Create Date Field + 7200, '1 Jan 1970' Make sure that the number of seconds you add or subtract is correct according to your timezone. Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Business Services (Pty) Ltd * E-Mail:

Re: SQL Server 2000 SP4

2006-10-24 Thread Webster, Basil
Could you be more specific? We are running V6.3 on SQL 2000 SP4 but had problems with the first SP4 release. We were not aware of it but this was retracted and another released. All I can tell you is that you should be on build 2195. In query analyzer, use select @@version. The errors that

Re: RPC errors/server crashing

2006-10-12 Thread Webster, Basil
Title: RE: RPC errors/server crashing ** Just as a matter of interest, as I said in my answer to your mail, we are experiencing the same thing, but we are running on Windows Adv Server 2000 and SQL 2000. I am going to have a look through the release notes and see if I can see anything.

Re: AR System server terminated when a signal/exception was received by the server

2006-10-09 Thread Webster, Basil
We get this a lot and have thus far not managed to link it to anything specific either. Support asked us to upgrade to the latest patch, 17, and get rid of some other errors in the log file but this has not helped. From my understanding, it is the thread that is shown that has crashed. We are

Threads Crashing

2006-07-24 Thread Webster, Basil
** Hi All, We have a major issue which has slowly been creeping up on us. It was something that happened every now and then and has now become a frequent visitor. Today seems to be the day that the wheels have come off. We use the preference server on log in and we are getting

Re: SQL server/files question

2006-05-12 Thread Webster, Basil
** Hi Dave, Ill add my bit to this too. As LJ rightly said, investigate your maintenance plans. I would recommend that you look in depth at this. As you know, having a sound DR plan is invaluable. The maintenance plans have various options that can be selected to help fit in with your

Re: Escalations not firing

2006-04-23 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi Jim, I know this is coming in a bit late, seeing as though you have scheduled a reboot for tomorrow. We had this very problem. We are on Win 2000, SQL 2000, ARS V6.0.3. At the time we were on patch 13. We found that the reboot would start up the escalations but after a while they just