Maintaining EAR files

This section contains information about maintaining Maximo® Asset Management EAR files.

The following instructions are used to manually build or uninstall the Maximo Asset Management maximo.ear file on WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment.

Although the Maximo Asset Management installation program deploys these EAR files when you install, there might be a few instances where it would be desirable to rebuild these EAR files manually:

• If you modify any database connection parameters in the maximo.properties file after the initial installation, you must rebuild of the maximo.ear file, and then redeploy it in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. In this scenario, you would likely only rebuild and redeploy the maximo.ear file. 
• Maximo Asset Management must be installed into a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment application server. However, Maximo Asset Management can be run within the framework of a WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment cluster. If you want to deploy Maximo Asset Management in a cluster, you can either redeploy the Maximo Asset Management EAR files into a cluster, or, create a cluster from the application server used during the install. If you have already installed Maximo Asset Management into an application server but would like to redeploy into a cluster, then you must either uninstall the MAXIMO application (Manually uninstalling applications from WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment), or provide a new name for the application when installing the MAXIMO application into a cluster (Manually installing applications in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment).
• If you have installed Maximo Asset Management into a development environment, you might at some point like to migrate the deployment into a test or production environment. In this scenario, you must deploy both the maximo and maximo help applications into the new environment.

  The steps outlined in Manually installing applications in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment should be performed for both applications.