Setting Up Separate Environment for Development

Question

First of all, I am fairly new to Maximo. My company is currently using 7.6.1. We have production and test environments that were set up by an outside contractor with no documentation to review. I want to set up a development environment. Does anyone know the process for creating another environment using the data from the test environment? Thanks in advance for your help.

Accepted Answer

Toni,

The first step would be to install a fresh instance of Maximo for your development environment. This involves creating a new development database for Maximo, as well as installing the software on an application server. Once you've done that, you can then restore a backup of your production or test databases over your new development database and then modify some environment-specific information in the database before starting it up.

The steps for refreshing a lower environment from production are something like:

Obtain a backup of the Production Maximo database
Stop the Development Maximo application server
Restore the backup over the Development Maximo database
Run some scripts against the database to match the Development environment
Start the Development Maximo application server

For #4, there are quite a few considerations. Here are some that you may want to consider:

Correcting your attached documents paths
Disabling outbound emails to users (or adjusting the subject line so that it's clear the email came from the Development environment)
Disabling integrations (or re-pointing integrations to the appropriate Development systems)
Adjust your Cron Task and Escalation schedules (including clearing the TASKSCHEDULER table)
Disabling LDAP Authentication

Hope this helps.

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