My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
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 [...]
WebSphere (http Server): Need to modify the httpd.conf file (typically located: C:\max62\IBMHTTPServer\conf) Options -Indexes The above “-Indexes” tells apache not to serve out that location’s directory tree when requested. By default the options is set to Indexes 1. need put in the negative sign, -Indexes 2. Save httpd.conf 3. and restart the service BEA WebLogic: [...]
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 [...]
I’m sure most of you have read my post on setting up multiple instances of Maximo, and if you have, you maybe wondering how to setup the JMS buses and queues for MIF to work for each instance. Well, here is a detailed KB article on Configuring JMS Buses and queues for Multiple Independent Instances [...]
Here is a good article on creating additional continuous queues and MDBs for Maximo 7 MIF.
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 [...]
I have talked a lot about the integration framework and how to import and export data, but I have not given any steps on how to set it up. So here is a quick guide to setup the JMS queues and buses for use with the Integration Framework. These steps are for a single instance [...]
Here are some links to help with tuning your Maximo application. These range from database configuration to websphere.
Deploying Maximo EAR files is easy once you get the hang of it. We take this process for granted because we do it so much at the office. IBM has supplied us with steps on how to deploy these EAR files for Maximo 6 but these steps can also be applied to Maximo 7. [IBM [...]
If you are using WebSphere and Maximo 5 or above, you can improve your performance by changing a few parameters. This performance improvement is memory related, so if you’ve noticed that your Maximo server is starved of memory after prolonged use, this change is certainly helpful. The basic idea is to change this parameter value [...]
If you are running WebSphere, you may want to read this article…
If you are tired of starting your Maximo application server manually, then you can configure it so that it runs as a Windows service that starts automatically when a server is rebooted. To configure the WebSphere Application Server (MXServer) to run as a Windows service, complete the following…
If you are tired of starting your WebSphere application by finding and running the ‘startNode.bat’ file, you can configure it so that it runs as a Windows service that starts automatically when a server is rebooted. To configure the WebSphere nodeagent to run as a Windows service, complete the following…
This is a quick guide to deploying Service Request Manager EAR files.
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 [...]
August 11, 2010
