Completing the BMC Remedy ITSM upgrade

After you upgrade BMC Remedy ITSM, follow the procedures in this topic to verify the upgrade is functioning correctly or make changes as recommended.

To manually delete asset attributes

During the upgrade, a new table structure for the BMC Remedy ITSM asset attributes is created and the lifecycle data is copied from the BMC Atrium CMDB to the AST:Attributes form in BMC Remedy ITSM. Also, workflow is created to keep the data synchronized. If you want, you can manually delete the attributes in CMDB by running DeleteCMDBAttributesUtility that is available in the BMC Remedy ITSM Suite installation directory. For more information, see 

To verify BMC Knowledge Management plug-ins are present

For verifying the BMC Knowledge Management plug-ins, you must perform the following steps:

1. Verify whether the BMC Remedy Knowledge Management plugin entries are present in the pluginsvr_config.xml located at <InstallDirectory>\ARSystem\pluginsvr.

2. Verify whether the port numbers of the following BMC Remedy Knowledge Management plug-ins exist in  ar.cfg or ar.conf of the secondary or non-admin server .

   Server-Plugin-Alias: RMDY.ITSM.RKM.FILESYSTEM RMDY.ITSM.RKM.FILESYSTEM <<server-name>>:<<port number>> 
   Server-Plugin-Alias: RMDY.ITSM.RKM.FS.KAM.SYNC RMDY.ITSM.RKM.FS.KAM.SYNC <<server-name>>:<<port number>>
   Server-Plugin-Alias: RMDY.ITSM.RKM.LOGLEVEL.CHANGE RMDY.ITSM.RKM.LOGLEVEL.CHANGE <<server-name>>:<<port number>>

   
   

3. If the port numbers are missing, append a port number to the server name and restart the BMC Remedy AR System server. The port value is the port number of AR plug-in server.

To update BMC Knowledge Management for popular articles

BMC Knowledge Management 8.0 and later includes an integration with BMC Service Request Management that displays the most popular articles in the Request Entry console. The popularity of an article is determined by its rating, use count, and number of views, as described in  Displaying popular articles  in the BMC Service Request Management documentation.

By default, popularity is calculated only for articles created in version 8.0 and later. To include pre-8.0 articles in popularity calculations, run two escalations as described in the following procedure.

To include pre-8.0 articles in popularity calculations:

1. From BMC Remedy Developer Studio, open the RKM:KAM:SyncTopSolutionsFeedbacksForUpgradeEscalation escalation.
2. Create an overlay.
3. Enable the escalation.

4. In the Run By field, select Time, and specify a time to run the escalation.
   For more information, see  Creating escalations  in BMC Remedy AR System documentation. 

5. Click Save.
6. After the escalation runs, disable it from BMC Remedy Developer Studio.
7. Repeat steps 1 to 6 for the RKM:KAM:SyncTopSolutionsUseViewCountsForUpgradeEscalation escalation.

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