Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-29 Thread grenadaguy
Subject: Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0) Harry, are you saying that the installation I am trying to use is broken in some way for Web Services as a result of being an upgrade from a previous AR version (actually I think it was upgraded from v5)? If that is the case, then I guess

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread Jarl Grøneng
Hi, Seems like you got all necesary information her. And you got an incident number in return. Can it be that you does not have the proper permission to see the inciden? It could be related to multi-tenancy. If you using the GetEntry soap interface, can you query for this incident? Regards,

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread grenadaguy
Not sure what you mean by GetEntry, I used HPD_IncidentInterface_WS + HelpDesk_Query_Service to query the incident and getting: Tue Jul 28 10:03:48 BOT 2009:DEBUG: MessageNum: 302[\n] Tue Jul 28 10:03:48 BOT 2009:DEBUG: MessageText: Entry does not exist in database[\n] However I can query an

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread grenadaguy
the log file into an attachment. Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of grenadaguy Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:58 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0

Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread John Baker
Mark, I can't bear to see you suffer any further. This is how you get data out of the AR System in an efficient and timely manner: http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/movies/BMCITSMIncidentIntegration/ You can retrieve it via a WS call (and not to the AR System, because that's painful), or

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread Copits . Richard
Interestinghow expensive is this solution...??? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:56 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread Wilson, Harry
to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0) Jarl, I started looking at backchannel before I was made aware of Web Services and haven't spent any time on it since. So far I have not been able to get Web Services to work with the constraints I am under so really researching it has been no more

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread grenadaguy
Harry, are you saying that the installation I am trying to use is broken in some way for Web Services as a result of being an upgrade from a previous AR version (actually I think it was upgraded from v5)? If that is the case, then I guess I am stuck until I get somebody with administrative access

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-28 Thread Wilson, Harry
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of grenadaguy Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 14:24 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0) Harry, are you saying that the installation I am trying to use is broken in some way

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-27 Thread grenadaguy
I had posted this as an attachment previously, maybe it slipped your attention. soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:urn=urn:HPD_IncidentInterface_Create_WS soapenv:Header urn:AuthenticationInfo urn:userNameMark.Courtenay/urn:userName

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-24 Thread grenadaguy
Jarl, I started looking at backchannel before I was made aware of Web Services and haven't spent any time on it since. So far I have not been able to get Web Services to work with the constraints I am under so really researching it has been no more productive than trying to use backchannel. It

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-24 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of grenadaguy Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:58 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0) Jarl, I started looking at backchannel before I was made aware of Web Services and haven't spent any time on it since. So far I have not been able to get

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-24 Thread Jarl Grøneng
2009/7/24 grenadaguy mark_courte...@yahoo.com: Jarl, I started looking at backchannel before I was made aware of Web Services and haven't spent any time on it since. So far I have not been able to get Web Services to work with the constraints I am under so really researching it has been no

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread grenadaguy
It almost certainly would help if I had any administrative access to the server, or indeed any access other than with a basic brower and user privileges only to open and resolve incidents, however sadly this is not the case. It seems like the diagnostics provided by Web Services out of the box

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread grenadaguy
John, Would use of this tool help with the problem I described elsewhere in this thread or would it just add the complication of another system to install/configure/debug/troubleshoot? What interface does it use to the Remedy server? BackChannel, Web Services or something else? If it were

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread John Sundberg
Kinetic Link - is an open strategy to interacting with the Remedy server. It exposes the Remedy System in a kind of REST sort of way -- check out Wikipedia if unfamiliar with the term. I know a number of companies who have switched many/all of their integrations to use Klink vs (whetever

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread Jarl Grøneng
If you trying to create and integration into AR System be sure to have access to a person who got admin privilegies. Reading the documentation is also a good start. -- Jarl 2009/7/23 grenadaguy mark_courte...@yahoo.com: It almost certainly would help if I had any administrative access to

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread grenadaguy
Jarl, I've read the relevant parts of: White Paper September 27, 2006 BMC ® Remedy® IT Service Management 7.0 Integrations and BMC® Remedy® Action Request System® 7.0 Integrating with Plug-ins and Third-Party Products As well as browsing through a large number of others looking in vain for any

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-23 Thread Jarl Grøneng
With those two document you should get a good overview of the different methods of creating integration into AR System. So, then I find it strange that you spending a lot of time trying to integrate trough an undocumenteted interface(using the backchannel method) I would go for the wget and an

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-22 Thread grenadaguy
Thanks, I got the tip to use WebServices from another source as well (coincidentally including a perl script written you your good self). I have set up a request in soapUI and am getting a response back with an incident number (below), but no ticket is created and there is no error to say what

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-22 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Mark, You can turn on WebService's logs on the Mid-Tier level to see some more details about the Web Services interactions. However, if you are in fact getting an Incident number back, then I would start with watching Server side Filter logs first. After all in order for the number to exist the

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-21 Thread John Sundberg
You might want to consider http://www.kineticdata.com/Products/KineticLink.html . Free/opensource -- similar concept to backchannel. -John On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:21 PM, grenadaguy wrote: Greetings all, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts which use wget (from a Linux box) to

Re: Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-21 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Mark, If the goal is: to robotically create incidents when required then why not use WebServices as the interface or use the ARS API as the interface? I think the BackChannel is internal to the Mid-Tier and as such is not only not supported (by itself) but also undocumented. -- Carey Matthew

Trying to use BackChannel (AR Mid-Tier v7.0)

2009-07-20 Thread grenadaguy
Greetings all, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts which use wget (from a Linux box) to robotically create incidents when required. I feel this could be useful in my environment to ease the transition from my internal-only customers currently sending requests by e-mail, also to facilitate the