Rebuilding and deploying maximo ear

Hello again,

In this post I am gonna show you how you can rebuild and deploy maximo.ear file everybody.

First of all, in order to do this you are gonna need to stop mxserver first

So step 1;

Log in to Websphere admin console. After you log in this is what you are going to see.

Step 2;

Now, expand servers and expand server types and click Web sphere application servers and select the server you want it to stop and then click stop like below figure.

Step 3;

After you make sure you stoped MXServer, now it is time to uninstall the old maximo.ear file to do that expand Applications, click enterprice application and and select maximo.ear file and click uninstall like below figure.

Step 4;

Now its time to rebuild the new maximo.ear and this the tricky part everyone now pay attention starting from this step.

Open the command promt and run cmd

And change the directory to this C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\deployment

Note: It may in a different directory in your system of course so be careful about that.

Step 5;

Now run the buildmaximoear command 

Step 6;

Wait untill this process finishes,

note : it will take 5 to 10 minutes to build the maximo.ear file

Step 7;

After you finish building maximo.ear file go back to the Websphere admin console and expand applications and click install.

Once you click install you will see something like this.

And now specify a path of your maximo.ear file which will most likely be in this path

“C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\deployment\default\maximo.ear”

And then click next. 

Step 8;

Choose fast path and click next.

Step 9;

Click next again.

Step 10;

Choose all of the components like below. And click next

Step 11;

On the layout in front of you apply multiple mapping and select maximo host like below

Step 12;

Click next.

Step 13;

This will take some time like 15 minutes.

Step 14;

When you see this screen click save.

Step 15;

After you click next it will take you enterprise applications again so if you see this you are on the right path. Now expand server types and click Websphere application servers and start Mxserver.

Step 16;

Now here is out last step,

Go to enterprise applications again and start maximo.

Sorry about this I already started mine but you will see something like this.

Thanks folks, see you guys in another post.

Installing IBM maximo 7.6

Hello Everyone, in this post I ll explain the whole process of installing IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.6

To me, the hardest part was just the organizing what comes out from the zip files, because once you unzip them, you need put them in a specific directory to make installer able to find those files and use it. And I do not think, none of you guys will have trouble with the rest.  

Okay Step 1.

• To be able to install maximo, you are gonna need to install middleware too, I mean Websphere and as I mentioned before, installer is not able to find your websphere setup files. So go through your Middl_Inst_WAS_855_1of3_Win directory and please do it your second and thirt part too, and in the native and files folder, you are gonna find a lot of files, cut them and paste it to the part 1 natives and files folder. 

Step 2, finish the combining middleware parts

Step 3, once you finish combining middleware parts you are gonna need to put one specific folder into installer folder. 

and the folder name is something like this : mam76\Install\mwi_WASv8.5.3_images

Step 4, Now we are ready to launch installer, I mean "launchpad64.exe". After launching that exe you are gonna see a layout like this.

Once you open it you will see a couple of options like if you wanna install db2 database which I don't like or you can configure the installation process.

Step 5, We are gonna install all the packages.

Step 6, After middleware installation process finish, a configuration panel will pop up, So click configure and wait between 30 minutes and 60 minutes.

Step 7, now go back to installer again and now we are installing Maximo 7.6, I mean just click the Maximo 7.6 product and leave the others unchecked.

Step 8, Click next

Step 9, Click next

Step 10, wait until the installation process finishes. you are gonna see sth like this also.

Step 11, After it finishes, you are gonna see this layout.

https://127.0.0.1:9043/ibm/console/logon.jsp and by using this link you can check if your middleware is working or not.

Step 12, and at this point we are gonna go back to configuration panel and we are gonna start making configuration for maximo.  Click Prepare configuration.

Once you click it you are gonna see this layout first, at this point you, maximo needs you to point where the database is which maximo is gonna use.

Step 13,  Fill these textboxes with valid info and click next.

Step 14, Click next

Step 15, Fill Database connection information and click next.

Step 16, Give a Websphere admin console name and password and leave the others untouched. Then click next. 

Step 17, for maximo admin group users indicate the passwords so they will be able to login by using those passwords.

Step 18, Choose the base language then click next.

Step 19, Choose the second language then click next.

Step 20, and finally we get to build maximo.ear file, just click finish and sat back,

Step 21, wait until this process finishes and once you see below message panel. 

You can go http://127.0.0.1:9060/maximo and start using you maximo product.

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Introduction to Git

Hello everyone, 

In this post I will be explaining one example of version control systems. I mean git.

         In case of you guys dont know what version control systems are, or you don't know what they do or any example of version control systems like git. Let me tell you this, they basicly keeps track of every change you make on your files and make you able to go back in time to any particular state of your file or version or whatever you say it is. This means, you can revert your changes back to it's previous states and this was one of the most important features of git. And also git can almost work with any type of files. Before I use git I was drawing in my project files  trying to remember which one was the last version of my code or what did I do last and the list goes like that but after I met with git everything got easier. and seriously git is just awesome I believe every programmer should know how to use git I am not saying that to force you watch these tutorials seriously it is just awesome.

        Git also makes you able to colloborate with different people and this is the other killing feature of git. Well you guys may think that colloborating with different people shouldnt be so difficult but let me give you an example;

   Lets say you are working in a huge software development team, and you need to work together with your colleages. Without using git you guys would probably spend tons of hours to merge all of your codes you typed. Just think about it. Lets say you wrote 200 lines of code in 10 different function and your colleges wrote 1000 of lines of code in 50 different function on the same *.java file lets say. Also you are guys are gonna need to compare your code in order to find out which function work fine or better and second, you guys are gonna need to merge those developments. So how would you do it, how would you merge those distrubuted developments without using any version control system right? 

        Git also allows you to revert files back to a previous state or the entire project if you want, or you can check who edited the last. it has just bunch of features you can use while developing software and I heart that graphic designer is also using git too, pretty usefull.

         So, to make long story short git can fix anything if you screw up thats what i usually do most of the time.

        That is it for this post everyone.