Monitoring IBM Maximo Application Suite installation on Amazon Web Services

During the installation process, the AWS CloudFormation stack template that you configured is used to create a Bootnode. The Bootnode contains all required resources to complete the installation. To verify that the Bootnode is created successfully, in the CloudFormation > Stacks page, confirm that the stack status is updated to CREATE_IN_PROGRESS.

Before you begin

To ensure that the Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster is created, the Bootnode starts a bootstrap process. This process creates a bootstrap node that uses the Red Hat OpenShift installer to create master and worker nodes. To verify that the bootstrap process is started, in the CloudFormation > Stacks page, click the Events tab. When the DeployWaitCondition event is displayed, the bootstrap process is started.

About this task

You can monitor the progress of the remaining installation tasks in the installation logs. These logs can be viewed in the AWS CloudWatch service or the Bootnode.

Procedure

  1. Monitoring the installation logs in AWS CloudWatch.
    To monitor the installation progress in AWS CloudWatch, complete the following steps:
    1. In the AWS CloudWatch management console, click Logs.
    2. In the log group list, click the group that is named /ibm/mas/masocp-<unique-string>.
    3. In the log stream list, open the installation log by clicking the stream that is named mas-provisioning-logs.
    4. Optional: In the installation log stream, if the message Auto retry paused is displayed, click the Resume link to display the latest log updates.
  2. Monitoring the installation logs in the Bootnode.
    To monitor the installation progress in the Bootnode, complete the following steps:
    1. Connect to the Bootnode by using Secure Shell (SSH) access. For instructions, see Accessing the Bootnode and Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
    2. Run the following command to switch to the root user: 
      sudo su -
    3. Monitor the installation log updates by running the following command: 
      tail -f /root/ansible-devops/multicloud-bootstrap/mas-provisioning.log
  3. After the installation is completed, in the CloudFormation > Stacks page, the following indicators confirm that the installation is successful:
    • The status of the stack is CREATE_COMPLETE.
    • In the Outputs page, the DeploymentStatus parameter displays a message that indicates that the installation succeeded, for example ID-aws-small-masocp-fjh2sx:SUCCESS#MAS deployment completed successfully.
  4. Proactively check the status of the deployment.
    Depending on the parameters that you specified, the installation time might vary.

    If the installation is unsuccessful, use the information in the Troubleshooting installation problems topic to identify and resolve the problem.