Setting up both a Cluster and Integration Framework for Maximo 7.1 on WebSphere 6.1

This guide comes from IBM Support and the original link can be found here. When using the Maximo Integration Framework (IF) in a clustered environment the following should be considered. · For best performance with minimal impact to users, the IF can be configured to run on a single instance of Maximo while users log in [...]

Change Maximo mail SMTP port

By default, any mail communications thru Maximo use port 25 which is the default SMTP port.  In some case, you may want to change this for whatever the reason.  This example given works in WebSphere and Maximo 7.

IBM recommends Maximo 7x users to upgrade WebSphere 6.1 to fix pack 35

This is a recommended WebSphere 6.1 fix pack level for Maximo.  You basically have to patch WebSphere, upgrade your Java SDK and IBM HTTP server if you are using it.  Click here to read more.

How to redeploy Maximo EAR files

IBM has a released a nice little guide on how to redeploy Maximo EAR files for WebSphere, Weblogic 9 and WebLogic 8.  See the guide here.

Setup a Maximo 7 cluster with WebLogic or WebSphere

IBM has provided some documentation on how to setup clusters for Maximo 7 for WebLogic and WebSphere.  Below are the related docs…

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. 

Websphere nodeagent is not synchronized with cell and Maximo won’t start

Sometimes I would randomly encounter a situation where the nodeagent in Websphere is not synchronized with the cell.  Because of this, the MAXIMO application server would not start and would fail immediately.  Now since your nodeagent is out of sync, you have to manually sync it again in order to get the Maximo application to [...]

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Install multiple maximo environments on one administrative machine

All of you have probably read my post on installing multiple instances of Maximo 7 using WebSphere.  It is the third most popular post on this site.  Now IBM, with it’s latest installer package, has enabled this capability.  To read what they have provided, follow this link to their support site for more information.

Idle sessions are not removed from MAXSESSION

Problem(Abstract) Idle sessions are not removed after the timeout specified in the web.xml from the MAXSESSION table Symptom Many sessions build up in the MAXSESSION table Cause This is due to session fail over being enabled on the Websphere side. Resolving the problem To disable session fail over follow the steps below 1) In the [...]

MEA web services do not automatically deploy after application restart

I have been playing around with Maximo 6 MEA web services a lot lately and I recently realized something strange.  If you restart the application server, the web services no longer work or aren’t available for use, even though the “deployed as web service” checkbox is checked in your interface.  This could be a potential [...]