Comments on: Install multiple instances of Maximo 7 using WebSphere

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By: Chon

Chon — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:02:31 +0000

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

By: dmcgowan

dmcgowan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:56:38 +0000

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

By: Install multiple maximo environments on one administrative machine | Maximo Times

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:42:58 +0000

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By: djordje.popovic

djordje.popovic — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:27:00 +0000

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

By: Chon

Chon — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:33:34 +0000

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

By: djordje.popovic

djordje.popovic — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:16:33 +0000

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.

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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:57:09 +0000

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By: teweha

teweha — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:50:52 +0000

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

By: Chon

Chon — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:02:29 +0000

Yes you should add it.

By: dreday302

dreday302 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:03:55 +0000

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?

By: Chon

Chon — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:55:45 +0000

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.

By: pjung

pjung — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:43:18 +0000

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

By: Sakthi

Sakthi — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:33:28 +0000

Hooray!!! It’s finally worked. I used default_host, that’s it didn’t work with port 9080 as my appserver port was 9081.

Thanks,
Sakthi

By: sakthimeil86

sakthimeil86 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:36 +0000

Is it mandatory to create virtual host here.

By: sakthimeil86

sakthimeil86 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:08:26 +0000

Thnks Chon. Found it really useful.

I just experimented to setup single websphere instance for many dev. box. Everything successfully deployed. But when I access the url http://localhost:9081/maxtest, I am getting following message in SystemOut.log

“[3/15/10 15:32:53:411 IST] 00000031 WebContainer E SRVE0255E: A WebGroup/Virtual Host to handle /maxtest has not been defined.” and getting HTTP:404 Page note found error.

Any suggestions welcomed.

By: Chon

Chon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:36:29 +0000

Yeah it may work but the whole point of making another instance is so that it talks to a different database. I mean I guess you could just modify the Maximo.properties file and build ear then deploy, but I think that would defeat the purpose of a second instance.

By: sakthimeil86

sakthimeil86 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:17:37 +0000

Hi,

Instead of copying the SMP folder to create second instance, shall I directly deploy just maximo.ear from another environment by doing the changes as mentioned in this tutorial to create one more instance. I meant changing the web.xml etc. and in websphere- creating server and configuration. Would it work Chon??

By: ammadnasim

ammadnasim — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:09:16 +0000

well Finally i resolved myself steps are following

Manual Migration Process for Maximo 7.1

Step 1
Close the database, application server and any other related application or files from the target system.( If possible)

Step 2
Copy the the folder named maximo ( folder containing the whole maximo Application) from the source system to the target system.
Step 3
Restore the database from the backup taken earlier from the source system and restore it by either making a new database or replace an exististing maximo database.

Step 4
Test the integrity of the database.

Step 5
copy or replace the maximo source folder into the traget drive.

Step 6
Make appropriate changes to maximo .props file like localhost name, database name, instance, id and password.

Additional files to look on for appropriate changes
Web.xml
Doclinks. properties
other custom props file
Ejb-jar.xml

Step 7
Build the ear file and redoply the solution in weblogic or Websphere.