Accessing IBM Maximo Application Suite

After you install Maximo® Application Suite, you need the following items of information to access it:

  • The Maximo Application Suite administrator URL, which you use to connect to Maximo Application Suite through a browser.
  • Your username and password.
  • The public certificate for Maximo Application Suite. You import this certificate into your browser's trusted store to ensure secure communication between your browser and Maximo Application Suite.

How you retrieve these items of information depends on whether you opted for the email notification during the deployment.

If you have provided the correct SMTP configuration during the deployment, you can retrieve the administrator URL, username, and password from the emails that you received. The public certificate is attached to these emails.

If you have not opted for the email notification, you can retrieve the administrator URL and credentials of the Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster from the deployment created in the boot node’s resource group. However, to retrieve your username, password, and the public certificate of Maximo Application Suite, you must connect to the Red Hat OpenShift cluster.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to retrieve all of the required information:

  1. In the Outputs section of the deployment that was created in the bootnode resource group, record the following values:
    • The value of the masAdminUrl key. This value contains the administrator URL.
    • The values of the openShiftConsoleUrl. These values contain the URL for the Red Hat OpenShift console.
    • The value of the clusterUniqueString key. This value contains the cluster unique string to look for the correct resources in Red Hat OpenShift.
  2. The Microsoft Azure Vault contains the credentials for Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Look for the vault named maximo-vault-<unique-string> in the Microsoft Azure Key Vaults service. It consists of two secrets named maximo-ocp-secret containing Red Hat OpenShift credentials and maximo-mas-secret containing Maximo Application Suite credentials. Retrieve the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform credentials from this secret.
    Note: By default no user has access to view the secrets. You must provide appropriate access from the Access policies section of the key vault.
  3. Connect to the Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
  4. Select Workloads > Secrets from the navigation page.
  5. Select the mas-<unique-string>-core project.
  6. Click the <unique-string>-credentials-superuser secret.
  7. Click the 'Reveal values' link to get the username and password for Maximo Application Suite.
  8. Click the <unique-string>-cert-public secret from the mas-<unique-string>-core project.
  9. Click the 'Reveal values' link to get the contents of the certificates.
  10. Retrieve the contents of ca.crt file, which is the public certificate for Maximo Application Suite.
  11. After you import the public certificate into your browser's trusted store, paste the Maximo Application Suite administrator URL into your browser and enter the authentication credentials to access the application.

Results

You can now log in to Maximo Application Suite to deploy applications, create users, and specify configuration.
In addition, if you installed the Maximo Application Suite core, Maximo Application Suite core with Cloud Pak for Data is deployed.
  • IBM® Db2® Warehouse service of Cloud Pak for Data is enabled.
To configure the Cloud Pak for Data database:
  1. Login to the Cloud Pak for Data admin console.
  2. Select the service catalog and search for Db2 Warehouse.
  3. Click Provision instance of Db2 Warehouse service.
  4. Configure the database.

If you installed Maximo Manage offering type, and you want to deploy certain applications and add-ons in Maximo Application Suite, such as Maximo Monitor, you must first install Cloud Pak for Data. For more information, see Installing Cloud Pak for Data on an Amazon Web Services instance of Maximo Application Suite.