1. Maximo 7 Integration Framework
James Chang
TRM
IBM Maximo 6 EAM & ITSM Consultant

2. Maximo 7 IF Tivoli Maximo based products Maximo EAM
Utilities
Transportation
Government
Spatial
ITAM ( IT Asset Management)
CCMDB
SRM

3. Maximo 7 IF Tivoli Process Automation Engine
The common components for the Maximo Products
Common user interface
User/group
Common configuration service
Dbconfig
Site/org configuration
Property files
workflows
Common data system
Table structures
Integration Framework

4. Maximo 7 IF IF Integration Types Data Integration
Tivoli OMP product integration
Support IBM Operational Management Products
Tivoli Provisioning
Application Integration
context-based external application launches

5. Maximo 7 IF Data Integration Asynchronous Synchronous Via Q
Near real time
Synchronous
Web services

6. Maximo 7 IF IF Structure changes Integration Objects Interfaces
-> Object structure
integration object structure
migration object structure
Integration points
Obsolete
Interfaces
Out bound interface -> publish channel
In bound interface -> enterprise service

7. Maximo 7 IF New Features Support bulk import
Support Tivoli OMP products
Support context-based external application launches
Message processing
Message tracking

8. Asynchronous In bound data flow
Maximo 7 IF
Asynchronous In bound data flow

9. Maximo 7 IF Inbound asynchronous HTTP posting URL System properties
hostname:port/meaweb/esqueue/extsysname/entservname
System properties
mxe.int.globaldir
Flat / XML/WSDL file location

10. Maximo 7 IF
Integration properties

11. Maximo 7 IF Object Structure The building block of IF
Consists of MBO(s)
Relationships for linking objects ( optional)
Support Integration and migration operations
Resolve name conflicts for flat structure
Flat files
Interface tables

12. Maximo 7 IF
Object Structure

13. Maximo 7 IF Enterprise Services Asynchronous ( via Q)
Processing Layers
Processing rules
User exit class
Process class
XSL map

14. Maximo 7 IF Enterprise Services Operation types: Create Update Delete
Sync
Query

15. Maximo 7 IF
Enterprise Service

16. Maximo 7 IF Publish Channels Out bound interfaces
Asynchronous ( via Q)
Event driven
Processing Layers ( customization)
Processing rules
User exit class
Process class
XSL map

17. Maximo 7 IF
Publish Channel

18. Maximo 7 IF External System
A single end point as the out bound ( publish channels) destination
A set of in bound ( enterprise service) and out bound interfaces
A set of interface controls
A set of 3 Qs

19. Maximo 7 IF End Points XML HTTP Flat Structure EJB JMS CMDLINE
Flat file
Interface tables
can not used with invocation channel
EJB
JMS
CMDLINE
Web Service

20. Maximo 7 IF Queues In bound continuous In bound sequential
Processed by MDB ( Message Driven Beans)
‘ejb-jar.xml’ file
In bound sequential
Processed by a cron task
Out bound sequential

21. Maximo 7 IF
External System

22. Maximo 7 IF Bulk import Support XML and flat files Preview mode
Driven by cron tasks

23. Maximo 7 IF
Flat file import cron task

24. Maximo 7 IF
XML file import cron task

25. Maximo 7 IF Web Services Object Structures Enterprise Services
synchronous
Enterprise Services
Exposed out bound interfaces
Synchronous or asynchronous
Standard Services
Exposed MBO methods

26. Synchronous In bound Enterprise Service data flow
Maximo 7 IF
Synchronous In bound Enterprise Service data flow

27. Synchronous Object Structure In bound data flow
Maximo 7 IF
Synchronous Object Structure In bound data flow

28. Synchronous Standard Service In bound data flow
Maximo 7 IF
Synchronous Standard Service In bound data flow

29. Maximo 7 IF Inbound synchronous HTTP posting URL
hostname:port/meaweb/es/extsysname/entserv name
hostname:port/meaweb/os/os name
hostname:port/meaweb/es/ss name

30. Maximo 7 IF Invocation Channel/Integration Module
Synchronous Out bound data flow
Invocation Channel/Integration Module

31. Maximo 7 IF Invocation channel Synchronous (via web services, HTTP)
Invoking an external process from a Maximo application
Initiated from
Application UI action
Workflow
Escalation

32. Maximo 7 IF Operational management product
monitoring operational integrity of IT infrastructure
IT infrastructure deployment /configuration/ availability
Security
Software / hardware availability

33. Maximo 7 IF Process management product Business process management
Change, release, Workflow, escalation

34. Maximo 7 IF Integration Module
The mechanism for the process management products to interface with OMP
Action
Name space
Invocation method
Utilizing invocation channel or a java class

35. Maximo 7 IF
Q & A