IBM® Maximo® Monitor

By using Maximo Monitor, business users can visualize current and historical trend data for their devices and assets in customizable dashboards.

Overview

Users can drill down through layers from a system-wide view to individual assets and devices.

Analytic functions are applied to input data, and the output is displayed on value cards, tables, images, line graphs, and alert tables.

Anomaly detectors run on the input data to detect outliers, gaps, and flat lines in the data and fire alerts. The anomalous data points are highlighted on line graphs.

Maximo Monitor is available from the Suite navigator or directly at the following URL:
https://<workspace_id>.monitor.<mas_domain>/

For more information, see the Maximo Monitor documentation.

Deploy Maximo Monitor

By deploying and activating the Maximo Monitor application, you make it available for use in Maximo Application Suite.

The following steps are specific to the Maximo Monitor application and are part of the overarching application deployment process. You must complete the pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment steps before you activate the application. By default, the application is not available to any users until you activate the application and then grant users access.

Pre-deployment steps

The following components must be installed and configured before you deploy Maximo Monitor:

The following component can either be deployed before you deploy Maximo Monitor or as part of deploying:

For information about the workload sizes Developer, Small, and Medium, see the Detailed System Requirements document.

Deploying Maximo Monitor

These deployment steps are completed in Maximo Application Suite.

  1. From the Suite administration catalog, click the Monitor card.
  2. Click Continue. Note: If there are insufficient AppPoints available to deploy this application, you can still complete the application configuration. The application automatically deploys when the required number of AppPoints are available.
  3. Select how you want to keep the application up to date by choosing one of the following options:
    • Click Channel subscription to subscribe to the upgrade channel. When new versions become available, they are added to the channel and updated in your suite instance either automatically or after manual approval. If you want to manually approve upgrades, turn off the Automatic approval toggle.
    • Click Manual and choose the version that you want to manually install. If you want to install version 8.6.0, complete these deployment steps. The remainder of this topic describes the deployment steps for version 8.7.0.
  4. On the Deploy application screen, click Show advanced settings, and turn off the System managed toggle.
  5. Specify the workload size. Choose from developer, small, or medium. The default size is small. For more information about workload size, see the Detailed System Requirements.
  6. Click Deploy.

The listed estimated deployment time is the estimated time that it takes to configure and deploy the application. The times include both front-end configuration work and back-end processing and configuration.

From the application's Overview tab, you can monitor the deployment status. Deployment is complete when the "Application -> Ready" card displays a green tick and the Activate button is displayed.

Post-deployment steps

The Asset Data Dictionary component is installed automatically when a consuming application, such as Maximo Monitor, is installed. The Asset Data Dictionary is a repository of data and metadata that facilitates data sharing and synchronization between applications in the suite. If you plan to synchronize data between Maximo Monitor and Maximo Manage, complete the configuration steps in the Asset Data Dictionary implementation section of the Maximo Manage product documentation.

Activating Maximo Monitor

A deployed application is not immediately available. Before you can grant users access and start working with the application, you must activate the application. You can activate the application after the deployment is complete.

To activate an application, from the application's Overview tab, click Activate. If the application deployment is not complete, the Activate button is inactive. It can take up to 15 minutes to activate Maximo Monitor.

Activated applications are available from the Maximo Application Suite Suite navigator and at fixed URLs for Maximo Monitor and for IoT.

Next steps

As an application administrator, you can now continue with the following tasks:

For other getting started steps in Maximo Application Suite, review the Getting started with Maximo Monitor.

Your data is stored in IBM® Db2® Warehouse. For information about how to encrypt your data in Maximo Monitor, see the Encryption of data at rest and Encryption of data in transit topics in the Db2® product documentation. For information about how to back up and restore your data in Maximo Monitor, see the Backing up data topic in the Db2® product documentation.

Update Maximo Monitor

By deploying and activating the Maximo Monitor application, you make it available for use in Maximo Application Suite.

The following steps are specific to the Maximo Monitor application and are part of the overarching application update process. You must complete the pre-update, update, and post-update steps before you start by using the updated application.

Note: If you choose a channel subscription update strategy, Maximo Monitor is updated automatically. However, issues can occur when automatically updating from Maximo Monitor 8.6 to Maximo Monitor 8.7. For more information, see Unintentional upgrade to Maximo Monitor 8.7 when subscribed to the Maximo Monitor 8.x channel.

Pre-update steps

The Maximo Monitor application requires no pre-update steps.

Updating Maximo Monitor

To update Maximo Monitor:

  1. From the Suite catalog, from the Applications tab, on the Monitor tile, click Update available.
  2. Information about the latest version is displayed.
    Click Select Maximo Monitor to continue.
    You can also click Available versions and then select a different supported version to deploy.
    Note: To deploy a version that is not listed, such as a specific fix, click Deploy another version and then manually enter the version number in the search field.
    Fix version information is provided by your IBM representative. A complete list of application versions is also available in the product documentation.
  3. Click Deploy to start the deployment process.
    The application update process might require software downloads and more configuration steps. The estimated update time is an estimate based on typical network speeds and processing performance.
    Important:
  4. During the deployment of the new versions, users might temporarily lose access to the applications while they are being updated.
  5. You are not required to activate the software when you upgrade.

Post-update steps

If you run a supervised anomaly function in offline mode, your pipeline might fail after an upgrade. You must delete the model and retrain it. For more information, see Supervised anomaly detectors.