Maximo being an ERP is known to have tough installation cycle and usually most of the Maximo installations are known to be on perm.Recently client has started shown interest in SAAS based services and they are interested in getting Maximo as a service.
IBM has already started giving Maximo as a service,using their soft layer platform to customers.Now they need not rely on service vendors to manage infrastructure, upgrades or installations.
Continuous integration and continuous deployment has been possible now using the pipelines because all the services are hosted in cloud.
In this series of tutorial, we will look at how Maximo can be configured to run a service for end customers. This tutorial will be divided in to multiple articles:
AWS EC2 Creation and setup
Create a new EC2 instance and select the pre built AMI, which is more like a pre configured virtual machine in cloud.
Next step we need to choose the hardware which is required for our Maximo installation.
I am selecting the m4.large instance with 2 vCPUs and 8 Gb of RAM.
Lets configure the instance.
Lets go to next step and choose storage for our instance, it will host WebSphere and Maximo on same box, so I need at least 100 Gb of database for that.
I don’t need to tag my instance, so lets leave it blank.
Now next step is most important step and need to be configured properly for this server to be reachable from your system.
AWS security group defines, who all can access this instance and on what all ports.
Since I will be hosting my database and app server on same machine I need not open the Maximo database port 1433 for public or other AWS EC2 instance on the VPC.
So my final security group will look like this, I am allowing access to all traffic till my instance is configured.( Later I will put restrictions on this security group to be accessed from my VLAN only
Now try to launch the instance, you might get a warning that this is not covered in free tier as you have selected a larger instance.
In the next step you will be presented with the key pair dialog box.
Download this key file and save it at a safe place, this will be used to connect to this instance via the Amazon CLI.
This instance is created and running in cloud with MSSQL running on Windows Server – 64bit.
Now in next Chapter 102 of Maximo on AWS series we will see how to load the installers on the servers and start the installation.
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Make sure you set a budget and billing alert to avoid high instances costs, if not in free tier of AWS.
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