Maximo Application Suite Customer-managed

Deploying IBM App Connect

With App Connect, you can connect applications and data from existing systems and modern technologies across all their environments.

Before you begin

Install and configure App Connect. You need the application dashboard URL to complete the configuration.

For more information, see the IBM® App Connect documentation.

Maximo® Application Suite supports cloud-based and on-premises App Connect:

Cloud-based
For more information, see IBM App Connect on Cloud and Getting started with App Connect.
On-premises
Follow the procedure that is outlined in the Maximo Application Suite download document to access and download the software and the related installation and quick start documentation.
Important: The Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities industry solution requires an on-premises instance of IBM App Connect. For Maximo Application Suite 8.8 and 8.9, App Connect 12.0.4 and 12.0.5 are supported. For Maximo Application Suite 8.10, App Connect 12.0.6 and 12.0.7 are supported. Also, the dashboard must use an App Connect Enterprise Production license. Install IBM App Connect in a Cloud Pak for Data cluster. For more information, see Applying service to IBM App Connect Enterprise.

To install IBM App Connect Enterprise that is needed to install the IBM Maximo Health and Predict - Utilities, see Installing IBM App Connect.

Procedure

  1. In Maximo Application Suite, from the side navigation menu, click Configurations, and click App Connect.
  2. Click Configure.
  3. Configure App Connect:
    1. Add the dashboard URL for your instance of App Connect.
      For example, the format is http://dash-1204-xxx.cloud. The dashboard URL must be correct. Do not add extra /.
  4. Click Save.