Prerequisite software
Ensure that your Maximo® Application Suite installation meets each
application-specific prerequisite according to your chosen installation path.
The following application prerequisites must be met before you can deploy the applications.
Attention: IBM® App Connect and Cloud Pak for Data do
not support odd-numbered Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform versions. If you plan
to deploy Maximo
Collaborate, or Maximo Predict, you must use even-numbered
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform versions.
Note: Starting in Maximo Application Suite 9.1, IBM Maximo Assist is now named
IBM
Maximo
Collaborate.
| Maximo Application Suite core | IoT | Maximo Monitor | Maximo Manage | Maximo Health | Maximo Predict | Maximo Collaborate | Maximo Real Estate and Facilities | Maximo Visual Inspection | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift cluster services | IBM Certificate Manager | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Data Reporter Operator | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| IBM Suite License Service | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| CouchDB | X | ||||||||||
| Cloud Pak for Data services | CPD control plane | X | X | O | O | X | X | O | |||
| Db2 Warehouse | X | X | O | O | O | O | |||||
| Watson Studio | X | ||||||||||
| Watson Machine Learning | |||||||||||
| IBM Watson® Discovery | X | ||||||||||
| Red Hat OpenShift cluster or external services | MongoDB | X | X | X | |||||||
| Kafka | X | X | O | ||||||||
| Relational Database | X * | X * | X | ||||||||
| App Connect | O | ||||||||||
| External services | SMTP Server | O | O | O | |||||||
| LDAP server | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||
| SAML IdP | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||
| OIDC Idp | O | ||||||||||
| Certificate issuer | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | ||
| IBM Compliance Expert Server | O | ||||||||||
Legend:
- X
- You need all prerequisites that are shown with an X in the Maximo Application Suite core column and in the columns for all the applications that you plan to use. Some applications have dependencies between the applications.
- X*
- The requirement for a relational database can be met by the application that uses Db2® Warehouse.
- O
- Optional prerequisites are marked with an O. Maximo Application Suite can use them if they are present.
For more information about the supported applications and add-ons for each release, see compatibility matrix.
Notes:
- IBM Certificate Manager controls certificate management in Maximo Application Suite 8.8.
- Service Binding Operator (SBO) is no longer a dependency and is not required in Maximo Application Suite 8.8.
Database configurations and scope
It is not recommended for some applications to reuse the same database instance within Db2 Warehouse for production environments. For testing or development environments you can reuse the same instance. Suite applications also can use different scopes of database configuration such as workspace-application scope, application scope, workspace scope, and system scope. For more information about the configuration scopes, see Configuring Maximo Application Suite.
The following table describes some recommendations that you can follow to configure Db2 Warehouse to support the Suite applications.
Note: Some applications and tools
support databases other than Db2 Warehouse. For example, Maximo Manage and
Maximo Real Estate and
Facilities also support Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database and other versions of Db2. For more information about specific application databases, see Deploying Maximo Application Suite applications.
Note: Starting in Maximo Application Suite 9.1,
Maximo Manage Foundation is installed by default and requires Db2 for user management.
Maximo Manage system requirements and dependencies therefore apply.
| Application | Exclusive database recommended | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| IoT | No. Typically works fine sharing the database with Monitor, Predict. | System |
| Monitor | No. Typically connects to the IoT database. | System |
| Maximo Manage + add-ons (Maximo Health add-on included) | Yes | Workspace-application |
| Maximo Health | Yes | Workspace-application |
| Predict | No. Typically uses the IoT or Maximo Monitor database. | System |
| Maximo Collaborate | Does not use Db2 database. | Does not use Db2 database. |
| Maximo Visual Inspection |
Does not use Db2 database. |
Does not use Db2 database. |
| Maximo Real Estate and Facilities | Yes. For more information, see Preparing your Maximo Real Estate and Facilities database. | Workspace-application |