The paid AWS product can be installed from the AWS Marketplace based on your
infrastructure needs. A new Red Hat® OpenShift® instance is created as part of the Maximo® Application Suite installation.
Before you begin
Before you can install Maximo Application Suite on
Amazon Web Services, you must configure prerequisites and gather information that you
need to complete the installation. For more information, see Prerequisites for installing Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services.
Consider other criteria, such as the type of
Maximo Application Suite
offering that you want and whether you want to create a
Red Hat OpenShift
cluster or reuse an existing one.
Note: The existing cluster must be created by using the automated
deployment option only.
For more information, see
Preparing to install Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services.
This
product requires an internet connection to deploy properly. The following code is downloaded on
deployment for setting up the
Maximo Application Suite
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
About this task
The Maximo Application Suite client-managed solution is available with two different
Marketplace products.
- Maximo Application Suite client-managed with Red Hat OpenShift
entitlement
- This product includes the subscription for the Red Hat OpenShift cluster that is
deployed during the installation process.
- The following CloudFormation templates are available as fulfillment options:
- A new Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the Installer Provisioned
Infrastructure (IPI)
- A new Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the User Provisioned Infrastructure
(UPI)
- Maximo Application Suite client-managed without Red Hat OpenShift
entitlement
- This product does not include the subscription for the Red Hat OpenShift cluster
that is deployed during the installation process or the existing one provided by the user. You must
have your own Red Hat OpenShift subscription to deploy Maximo Application Suite by using this product.
- The following CloudFormation templates are available as fulfillment options:
- An existing Red Hat OpenShift cluster
- A new Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the Installer Provisioned
Infrastructure (IPI)
- A new Red Hat OpenShift cluster by using the User Provisioned Infrastructure
(UPI)
After you select the Paid product from Amazon Web Services Marketplace, you can
complete the following steps for a public paid offering. The public paid offer is the default option
that you see after you view the product page.
Procedure
- In the Amazon Web Services Marketplace service console, depending on if you have the Red Hat OpenShift
subscription or not, click Discover product and search for Maximo Application Suite client-managed without Red Hat OpenShift entitlement or Maximo Application Suite client-managed
with Red Hat OpenShift entitlement. The products are sold by IBM
Maximo.
- Open Maximo Application Suite.
- Review the product information and click Continue to
Subscribe.
- On the Create an agreement for this software page, select any one
of the contract duration options: 12 months / 24 months / 36 months.
- Select a minimum of 500 AppPoints and click Create
Contract.
- After 24 hours of subscription, to register the product with your Amazon Web Services account, complete the registration by using an IBMid
from https://www.ibm.com/marketplace/connector/landing/aws/services/amicontractsetup.
You receive an email notification in few minutes
to obtain the artifacts required for the product deployment.
- After you retrieve the entitlement key, link your Maximo Application Suite
subscription with Red Hat OpenShift account by following the steps at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/1.0?topic=iocpc-accessing-red-hat-entitlements-from-your-cloud-paks, obtain the Red Hat OpenShift pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift account, return to product page, and click Continue to
Configuration.
Note: Linking the Maximo Application Suite subscription with Red Hat OpenShift account is required only if you are deploying Maximo Application Suite with new Red Hat OpenShift cluster. if you decide to
use existing Red Hat OpenShift cluster, it is not required.
- In Fulfillment option, select the appropriate deployment mode.
For Maximo Application Suite deployment with new Red Hat OpenShift
cluster, you can select either new network infrastructure (IPI), existing network infrastructure
(UPI), or existing Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
For more information, refer to the fulfillment options explained earlier in this
section.
- In Software version, select the latest version.
- In Region, select a supported geographical region where you
want to install the Maximo Application Suite. For the list of supported regions, see
Preparing to install Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services.
- Accept the default values in the other fields and click Continue to
Launch.
- In the Launch page, select .
- To open the CloudFormation stack wizard, click
Launch.
- In the Create stack wizard step, accept the default values, and
click Next.
- In the Specify stack details step, in the Stack
name section, enter a unique name.
- In the Parameters section, enter the installation parameters by using the information
that you gathered when you configured the Prerequisites for installing Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services and Preparing to install Maximo Application Suite on Amazon Web Services.
- Enter all of the mandatory parameters.
- The Maximo Application Suite offering type, such as Maximo Application Suite
Core and Cloud Pak for Data or Maximo Application Suite and
Maximo Manage.
Note: If you
choose to install
Maximo Application Suite with
Manage, you
can use the default
IBM Db2® instance that is provisioned by
IBM instead of configuring your own external
Db2
instance. To configure the default
IBM Db2, do not add information in the
username, password, JDBC URL, certificate URL, and demo data fields.
The internal Db2 configuration is available from Maximo Application Suite 8.10 or later.
Starting in 8.11, for US GovCloud regions, Db2 is not supported.
- All of the parameters in the Cluster and bootnode access and
Keys and licenses sections.
- To create a new cluster, complete the New OpenShift cluster configuration details
section.
- In the optional parameter groups, such as the group of Maximo Manage database configuration parameters, ensure that you either specify all
of the parameter values or leave all of them empty.
- To configure Amazon
Managed Streaming for Kafka, select
Yes.
The
Amazon Managed Streaming for
Kafka is configured to process data streaming of applications such
as
IoT and
IBM Maximo Monitor from
Maximo Application Suite.
You can configure the default Amazon Managed
Streaming from Maximo Application Suite 8.10. or later.
- To configure a DocumentDB
instance, you can select any of the following options.
- Configure a new MongoDB community edition
- Use an existing MongoDB
You must input existing MongoDB connection details such as the username, password, MongoDB hostname, and CA certificate.
- Configure a new Amazon DocumentDB
- Use an existing Amazon DocumentDB
Add existing DocumentDB connection details
such as the username, password, DocumentDB hostname, and CA certificate.
You must input the
VPC ID of the region in which the Amazon DocumentDB is deployed. Ensure that the
DocumentDB does not have a matching or overlapping IPv4 CIDR block
10.0.0.0/16
.
You can configure the default DocumentDB from Maximo Application Suite 8.10. or
later.
- In the Other parameters, select the
OperationalMode as Production or
Non-production.
You can specify deployments for Production or
Non-production environments. Non-production installations can be used for internal development and
testing. The installation AppPoints are unused in the Non-production installations. These
specifications are also visible in the metrics shared with IBM as well as on the
product UI.
- Click Next.
- In the Configure stack options step, configure any additional
options that you require. To know more about the stack options, click the "Learn more" links
available in each option. Click Next when done.
- In the Review step, review the values that you entered and
acknowledge the message that relates to identity and access management (IAM)
resources.
- To begin the installation, click Create stack.
What to do next
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
page,
confirm that the stack status is updated to CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
For more information, see Monitoring IBM Maximo Application Suite installation on Amazon Web Services.