The other day, we encountered a problem during one of our performance tests. We observed from the database side that there is a steady increase of connections over time. Of course, we immediately suspected there is a newly introduced connection leak somewhere and started the hunt.   The very first thing we did was to turn on the dbconnection logger to info level. We confirmed from the maximo logs that these connections indeed are recorded in the maximo connection pool as used connections and not released. The stacktrace did confirm that there... [More]

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With the release of Maximo Fix Pack 7.6.0.1 , among other things, it offers the new feature that you will be able to reduce downtime when running updatedb. The link below contains the steps in how to take advantage of this new feature: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21902458   But if you go through the steps of the scenario described there, the first problem that you could face is that the Step 2 won't work when you are coming from a 7.5.0.8 version. This is because when you perform the upgrade from Maximo 7.5.0.8 to... [More]

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Hello! As I usually test some Maximo Upgrade scenarios for some different products and releases, I am bringing today another tip when performing upgrades from Major Versions (6.x to 7.1.x or 7.1.x to 7.5.x). This tip is related to the order of installation of the Industry Solutions/add-ons in the step of preparation for the upgrade process. To be clear, you have to understand that it is just a step of the whole upgrade process, which you can learn fully by reading the  Upgrade  Guide ). If you are upgrading your Maximo Asset... [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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You may already have a High availability solution for your Maximo environment, but how do you make sure it will work with you have unplanned outages? The recently published paper:  Assuring Your High Availability Solution for Tivoli Process Automation Engine provides information to help you test your HA solution and assure successful failover   by simulating failures of each individual middleware component in various ways.

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Are you trying to use Rational Performance Tester (RPT) to do performance testing on deployments of IBM Tivoli system management products and running into roadblocks? Are you not even sure where to begin with your performance testing effort? Look no further than the Performance Test Best Practices for Rational Performance Tester white paper available in the Asset Management Files area of Service Management Connect!   This white paper explains how to define your test methodology, the types of performance tests you may want to do, how to develop... [More]

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