Getting started as an application administrator

Application administrators maintain the IBM Maximo Real Estate and Facilities applications. Administrative items can include administering user security groups and permissions, system jobs, thresholds, user messages, user profiles, news, notifications, lists, emission conversion factor tables, approvals, and application settings.

Application Administrators typically performs the following tasks:

  • Assigns users to user types and security groups.
  • Sets up user access.
  • Creates and maintains most system and application-level standards that include classification and list values.
  • Creates reports and queries.
  • Can manage system performance.
  • Can manage configuration tasks such as changing labels, adding a field or section to a form, and creating portals.

The portal for this role is based on the following details that are selected in the people record for the administrator.

  • Home page: Home - Application Administrator or MASCore - Admin Portal
  • Group details: Admin Group

Initial administrator user

For the first login to Maximo Real Estate and Facilities, you must create the FACILITIESADMIN user in Maximo Application Suite. The FACILITIESADMIN user is synchronized with Maximo Real Estate and Facilities in which the user details already exists with the Base entitlement assigned. For more information, see Administering Maximo Real Estate and Facilities users.

The FACILITIESADMIN user is the starting point for all administrative activities in Maximo Real Estate and Facilities. This user can log in to Maximo Real Estate and Facilities with administrative privileges and administer other users. The default home page for the FACILITIESADMIN user is Mas Core - Admin Portal.

For more information, see Administering user security groups and permissions in Maximo Real Estate and Facilities