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Install multiple instances of Maximo 7 using WebSphere

March 17, 2009 by 59 Comments

The previous versions of Maximo all came with an installation guide that helped you install a Maximo application server for production purposes and also for testing or development purposes.  In most cases, this is how most of our applications are setup.  Unfortunately, Maximo 7 does not come with any demo data or even an installation guide for installing a MaxTest instance.  The Maximo install guide does show you how to install one instance on one server, but some of you may want to install a MaxTest application server as well as your MaxProd application server.  This guide will show you just how to add a MaxTest Maximo application using WebSphere.  It also assumes that you have successfully completed the installation for your Maximo 7 production application.

Step 1:

Create a backup copy of your Maximo production database.  I will assume most of you know how to do that, but if you don’t, you can find a guide for backing up a SQL Server database here or an Oracle database here.  After you have created a backup, restore the database and name it MaxTest.

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About Chon

I am a Senior Consultant/Software Engineer and co-lead developer of EZMaxMobile at InterPro Solutions, LLC

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  • pjung

    One question: In Step 7 you change maximo.properties. Isn’t it necessary to encrypt the file after doing these changes?

    • http://interprosoft.com Chon

      No, you don’t have to encrypt for it to work. Encrypting it just ensures that no one snooping around on your server can see the passwords in plain text.

  • dreday302

    quick questions:
    in Step 7, if we don’t have ‘mxe.int.webappurl’ in our maximo.properties file, do we add it? also, do we change mxe.name=MXServer to mxe.name=MXTest?

    • http://interprosoft.com Chon

      Yes you should add it.

  • teweha

    hi chon,
    currently i have problem on re-deploy maximo application, do you have any tutorials related to re-deploy and re-install maximo?

    thanks

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  • djordje.popovic

    Nice article. But what will happen when when you need to upgrade this environment.

    To create environments that can be upgraded later … you must use complete installation process of Maximo, plus for each installed environment there must be a backup of settings for the IBM ADE Service. I think on IBM Maximo site there is an article how to do this.

    • http://interprosoft.com Chon

      I usually upgrade the original installation, then just copy that new install over the second instance.

      • djordje.popovic

        Yes but than you can lose something … for example if you have several instances development, staging, production, load … ?

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  • http://www.mtelligence.net dmcgowan

    Great article. do you have the same how-to steps but for Maximo 6. Weblogic or WebSphere.

    • http://interprosoft.com Chon

      I do not, but the process is pretty much the same idea.

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