Restoring Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities

You must restore Maximo Manage, and then you restore Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities and also your Watson Studio data.

Before you begin

  • Restore Maximo Manage. For more information, see Restoring and validating Maximo Manage.
  • You need access to the Red Hat® OpenShift® command-line interface (CLI). Make sure that the oc command is in your path and that you have administrator credentials. For more information, see Getting started with Open Shift CLI.
  • You need to install the yq command-line interface, which is a lightweight and portable command-line processor for YAML, JSON, and XML. For more information, see yq Quick usage guide.

About this task

You can restore Maximo Health by using manual steps or you can use the Maximo Application Suite DevOps Ansible® Collection. For more information, see Maximo Application Suite DevOps Ansible Collection/Backup and Restore.
Source cluster
The original Red Hat OpenShift cluster from which you took the backup data.
Target cluster
Any Red Hat OpenShift cluster that is different than the source cluster.

The three different ways to restore Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities are based on different scenarios. For more information, see Backup and restore scenarios overview.

To learn more about how to deploy and undeploy Maximo Health, see Deploying IBM Maximo Health and Deactivating and deleting applications.

To learn more about how to deploy and undeploy Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities, see Deploying IBM Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities and Deactivating and deleting applications.

Procedure

  • For the crash recovery scenario, restore the Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities application to the source cluster from which you took the backup data.
    1. Undeploy the existing Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities deployment.
    2. Redeploy the Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities application.
    3. Restore the Watson Studio data.
      Import a project in Watson Studio. For more information, see Importing a project (Watson Studio).
  • For the disaster recovery scenario, restore the Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities application to the target cluster, which is different than the source cluster.
    1. Install and configure the cluster.
    2. Install Maximo Application Suite core.
    3. Deploy Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities.
    4. Restore the Watson Studio data.
      Import a project in Watson Studio. For more information, see Importing a project (Watson Studio).
  • For the restore data scenario, you can restore Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities backup data only to the source cluster.
    1. Restore the Watson Studio data.
      Import a project in Watson Studio. For more information, see Importing a project (Watson Studio).
    You don’t need to undeploy the existing Maximo Health or Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities deployment.