Monday's work: Migrating a Maximo server, Part Two. Yesterday's list looks really neat, doesn't it? I revised yesterday's list of to-do's extensively, in light of what actually happened during the migration. For one, I had to keep checking where I was storing my databases. I created a diagram on my white board to keep them all straight. Listed below are the databases and instances affected by the move. The new server is called MAXNC3082 .   Maximo instance Admin Workstation DB Name DB server App... [More]

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What happened on Friday: Migrating a Maximo server, Part One.   Migration Planning I have a bit of an advantage with this migration. My source and target servers are ideally suited for each other: they have the same operating system and bitness - Windows s008 R2 64-bit. What's moving : one Oracle database server with three databases: max62, max71, sccd75 one WebSphere 6.1.0.35 server with four Application servers: max62server, max62SQLserver, max71server, RMIregistry one Maximo Asset Management 7.1.x... [More]

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My group's infrastructure manager (let's call him Jon) Sametimed me the other day, and asked when I'd be able to give up my desktop server. My physical server is an old ThinkCentre, 8 GB RAM, Windows 2008 Server, Maximo 7.1, Oracle 11g. This server has been good for me over the past five years. No matter how many times it lost power, it came up like a champ. Sometimes I had to turn on the Oracle Listener, but that's all part of doing the job. Then there was the time the hard drive just up and died. But I had a backup, and plenty... [More]

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An established Maximo Asset Management 7.5 deployment can be copied into multiple environments. This allows you to duplicate environments for the purposes of development, testing, and prototyping. You can refine best practices for your product in development and test environments. You can then apply the best practices to the production environment.   A new document describing the cloning process for is available on the IBM Maximo Asset Management wiki .   This document provides information on cloning a Maximo Asset Management 7.5 environment... [More]

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In my experience as a software engineer, the value of an IBM Redbook in software design, implementation and maintenance can never be overemphasized. I started using Redbooks as reference material in my development projects back in the 90s. Learning and applying techniques and best practices always helped me deliver quality software to my customers on time. Back then I couldn't have imagined I would be part of a Redbook authors team! Time has moved on and I am really happy to share with all of you the link to the updated Migration Manager... [More]

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Introduction IBM released Maximo 7.5 in April 2011. This release is built on top of Tivoli process automation engine (Tpae) 7.5. Tpae 7.5 provides a number of improvements and enhancements in many different areas. One of the key Tpae components with significant new features is Migration Manager. These features were added based on customer input and experience using Migration Manager. The goal in adding these new features is to accelerate migration package design and the overall migration effort while reducing the implementation burden... [More]

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