Maintaining your Maximo system

We all know the reason for any company to purchase an EAM product like Maximo.  It’s because they want to be able to maintain their assets and keep them in top physical shape.  You create PM programs for your assets so they staying running extended periods of time without any slow or downtime.  But did [...]

IBM Maximo recommends using WebSphere 7.0 fixpack 21 or higher with Java SDK 1.6 SR9 FP2

IBM WebSphere has published a technote for the Out of Memory problem in SDK 1.6 SR9. The out of memory problem has been experienced in Maximo environments using WebSphere 7.1. Symptom Java Out of Memory Resolving the problem IBM WebSphere has published the technote for the Out of Memory problem in SDK 1.6 SR9. The [...]

Best Practices for System Performance 7.5x White Paper

Rick over at developerWorks has posted a white paper on system performances related to  TPAE products.  If this is something you need, I suggest you take a peak.

Working with the Performance Monitoring tool in Maximo 7

I have already shown how to enable the performance monitoring tool in Maximo 7 but working with it is a different story.  Here is how to view the statistics of the performance monitoring tool. Open up the Maximo application in a web browser and proceed to the portion of the application that you wish to [...]

Separate user interface from escalations

To improve performance for large scale environment, it is best to separate different work elements in Maximo 7 from the user interface (UI).  This example from IBM shows how to separate escalations from the UI in WebSphere.  You can then use this method to separate other work related parts such as cron tasks and reporting. [...]

Setup Maximo 7 clustered environment in WebSphere

This guide comes from IBM support which shows us how to setup a clustered Maximo 7 user interface (UI) within WebSphere for best performance. 

WebCast: Maximo Performance Tuning and Best Practices

Audience: Customers, Level 2 & 3 Support, Services, GTS, ITD, GBS, Business Partners and Sales Abstract: This STE will cover: Maximo performance tuning, troubleshooting and best practices. Date: Dec 10, 2010 10:00 AM Eastern US Presented by: Darlene Nerden Content This is the Powerpoint Presentation used for the live session: NOTE: Powerpoint will be available [...]

Enable Maximo 7 Performance Monitor Tool

Here is a performance tool (PERFMON) that is available for Maximo 7.1.1.6 and later. 

MAXIMO performance best practice: use multiple JVMs to support users and functionality

This article by IBM suggest that you use multiple JVM’s to support your users if you have 50 or more. IBM often recommends limiting the number of users in Maximo to 50 and separating functionality such as MEA and Cron tasks. Why is this recommended and what is the meaning of this recommendation? Read the [...]

Maximo 7 performance best practices

Here is a white paper on Maximo 7 performance best practices…