Setting the URL of the Maximo Application Suite server in the Maximo Mobile app
To use the Maximo® Mobile app with IBM® Maximo Manage, the URL of your Maximo Application Suite server must be set in the app. The URL can be set manually by the mobile user or set centrally for each user by using a Mobile Device Management (MDM) application.
Maximo Mobile supports the standard approach to centrally configuring mobile applications that is defined by the Appconfig Community. When you load the Maximo Mobile Android app in an MDM application, the configurable settings are displayed, and you can set their values. For the Maximo Mobile iOS app, some MDM applications can load the configurable settings from an AppConfig.xml file. If your MDM application, can load the configuration setting from an AppConfig.xml file, create an appconfig.xml file and copy the following text to the file:
<managedAppConfiguration>
<version>1</version>
<bundleId>com.ibm.iot.maximo.mobile</bundleId>
<dict>
<string keyName="serverURL">
</string>
<boolean keyName="allowURLtoBeChanged">
<defaultValue>
<value>true</value>
</defaultValue>
</boolean>
</dict>
<presentation defaultLocale="en-US">
<field keyName="serverURL" type="input">
<label>
<language value="en-US">Server URL</language>
</label>
<description>
<language value="en-US"/>
</description>
</field>
<field keyName="allowURLtoBeChanged" type="checkbox">
<label>
<language value="en-US">Allow URL to be changed?</language>
</label>
<description>
<language value="en-US"/>
</description>
</field>
</presentation>
</managedAppConfiguration>
For more information, see the documentation for your MDM application.
If your MDM application does not support the AppConfig.xml file, you can add the following settings and their values in your MDM application:
Setting | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
serverURL | String | The URL of the Maximo Application Suite server to which users connect. |
allowURLtoBeChanged | Boolean | Allow user to change the server URL in the Maximo Mobile app. The default value is true, which allows a user to change the URL in the app if, for example, they want to connect to a different server. |
If you are not using an MDM application to manage your devices, you must send the URL of the Maximo Application Suite server to each Maximo Mobile user. Each user must then manually enter the URL of the server in the Maximo Mobile app.
After the URL of the server is set in the Maximo Mobile app, the Maximo Mobile applications, which are deployed on the Maximo Manage server, are set up on the device.