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Maximo Asset Management
Essentials V7.1
Implementer’s Guide
Offering targeted for general business
clients
Start planning a deployment
Learn about configuring
the environment
Melissa Christensen
Abesolom Fidel
Nihar Jain
Rutger Mons
Venkat Ram
Vikas Sharma
Bart Jacob
ibm.com/redbooks
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7645edno.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page vii. First Edition (May 2008) This edition applies to Maximo Asset Management Essentials Version 7.1. This document created or updated on May 23, 2008. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2008. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645TOC.fm Contents Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix The team that wrote this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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7645TOC.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 5.1.7 Deleting the TEMP and TMP user environment variables . . . . . . . . 39 5.1.8 Verifying the required rpm-build package is installed . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 5.1.9 Setting the ulimit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 5.1.10 Setting shared memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.1.11 Enabling remote configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645TOC.fm 6.2 Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6.2.1 Report Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6.2.2 BIRT Configure Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 6.2.3 BIRT Run Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Appendix A. Summar
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7645TOC.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am vi Maximo Essentials V7.1 - Implementer’s Guide
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645spec.fm Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. IBM may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries. Consult your local IBM representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area. Any reference to an IBM product, program, or service is not intended to state or imply that only that IBM product, program, or serv
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7645spec.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am Trademarks IBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. These and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their first occurrence in this information with the appropriate symbol (® or ™), indicating US registered or common law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information was published. Such trademarks may
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645pref.fm Preface This book is a guide to assist those interested in implementing Maximo Asset Management Essentials. It provides general information about the offering and overviews the planning, installation and initial configuration processes. An entry-level member of the IBM Maximo Asset Management product family, Essentials, is ideal for smaller organizations that require a subset of the extensive range of features in the IBM Maximo Asse
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7645pref.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am Figure 1 (From l to r ) Abby Fidel, Venkat Ram, Rutger Mons, Melissa Christensen, Nihar Jain, Vikas Sharma, Bart Jacob Bart Jacob is a Senior Consulting IT Specialist at IBM® Corp - International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has over 25 years of experience providing technical support across a variety of IBM products and technologies, including communications, object-oriented software development, and systems
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645pref.fm Nihar Jain is a Techno Functional Consultant with Birlasoft (India) Ltd. He has over 3 years of experience with Maximo in Asset and Service Management domain. He holds a degree in Computers and certifications in ITIL® and IBM Maximo Deployment. Rutger Mons is a IBM Certified Tivoli Deployment Consultant based at Stork Asset Management Solutions in the Benelux region.He has close to 9 years of functional and technical experience in
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7645pref.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am Become a published author Join us for a two- to six-week residency program! Help write a book dealing with specific products or solutions, while getting hands-on experience with leading-edge technologies. You will have the opportunity to team with IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, and Clients. Your efforts will help increase product acceptance and customer satisfaction. As a bonus, you will develop a network of contac
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645introduction.fm 1 Chapter 1. Introduction This chapter introduces the basic concepts of Asset Management and how Maximo Asset Management Essentials as a product can be used as an enabler for those processes. We also talk about the functional layout of Maximo Asset Management Essentials. 1.1 Enterprise asset management overview Enterprise asset management is the process of managing an organization’s assets throughout their life cycle - rig
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7645introduction.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am creation of request for quotation, generation of purchase order, receiving an asset at a location and creation of an invoice. c. Commissioning - At this stage of the asset life cycle, it is assigned to a location, user or group of users. The cost of operating the asset is now attributed the owner of the asset. Also, asset availability is now the responsibility of the owner. This includes maintaining the asset regularly to e
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645introduction.fm This solution is targeted towards small-to-medium businesses who do not have multiple sites and just need a subset of the core functionality of Maximo. Maximo Asset Management Enterprise has been a leader in enterprise asset management for many years. IBM Maximo is the only solution to have been placed in the EAM Leader’s Quadrant 11 times since 1998. However, smaller businesses can benefit from the core functionality of Max
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7645introduction.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 1.2.2 Modules Maximo Asset Management Essentials is a subset of Maximo Asset Management for Enterprise. Both the products have the same look and feel, similar navigation and functionality. The product is composed of Modules, which in turn contain applications or sub-applications. Users access the lowest level, whether it is an application or sub-application for functionality. The Maximo Asset Management Essentials solution
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Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am 7645introduction.fm Establish location and asset hierarchies to roll up costs across systems, subsystems, departments and locations, enabling a better understanding of the true cost of assets (initial cost, financial value, cost to maintain, and so on). Monitor asset and location conditions to enable proactive—rather than reactive—maintenance that helps reduce unplanned downtime. Support both conventional and linear assets. Work Manageme
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7645introduction.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am Materials Management Know the details—what, when, where, how many, how valuable—about asset-related inventory and its usage. Materials management functionality records material movements and adjustments, allowing for real-time inventory tracking, reporting and auditing. This module also allows embedded images of an asset to be displayed in the catalog search. You can also use it to: Track inventory transactions to help str
