Maximo Application Suite Customer-managed

Deploying IoT tool

The IoT tool provides device connectivity, data filtering and mapping, and device management tools and is needed by Maximo® Monitor.

Before you begin

The following components must be installed and configured before you deploy the IoT tool:

  • Db2 Warehouse.
    Note: For Maximo Application Suite on AWS (BYOL) offerings, an instance is already created and the jdbccfg custom resource is already configured at the System scope.
  • MongoDB.
    Note: For Maximo Application Suite on AWS (BYOL) offerings, MongoDB is installed and configured for you.
  • Apache Kafka for IoT tool.

About this task

These deployment steps are completed in Maximo Application Suite.

Procedure

  1. In Maximo Application Suite, from the side navigation menu, click Catalog. Next, select the Tools tab and then click the IoT card.
  2. Click Continue.
  3. Select your application update method.
    1. Select an update method.
      To subscribe to automatic updates, set Automatic approval to On. When new application updates are available, they are added to the channel and automatically updated in your Maximo Application Suite instance.
      To subscribe to manual updates, set Automatic approval to Off. When new application updates are available, you receive a notification, and you can manually approve the updates.
    2. Subscribe to a channel by selecting a version from the list.
      For example, select channel 8.x.x or 8.x.
    3. Click Subscribe to channel <version>
  4. Configure advanced configurations.
    On the Deploy application screen, if you want to customize your settings for storage class and deployment size, click Show advanced settings. Set the System managed toggle for the settings that you want to configure manually.
  5. Select a storage class and size for the Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) which is used to persist messaging data.
  6. Choose from developer, small, or medium.
    For more information about available and tested storage classes, and for deployment size guidance, see the Monitor and IoT section of the Maximo Application Suite system requirements document.
  7. Click Deploy.
  8. Verify the deployment configuration and click Begin deployment.
    The estimated deployment time is an estimate of the time that it takes to configure and deploy the application. The time includes processing and configuration.

    Monitor the environment. Check that the namespace mas-<instanceid>-iot is created successfully. Check the pods to ensure that no error conditions are present and wait for all pods to be ready.

  9. When the deployment is complete, click Activate.

What to do next

Deploying IBM Maximo Monitor