IBM Maximo: Migration from NFS to S3 Storage

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You can configure IBM Maximo and MAS so that it stores attachments in a Simple Storage Service (S3) cloud object storage.

This is the best option when migrate from EAM to MAS.

In order to migrate your environment to use S3, it is necessary to:

1) create a bucket in a service cloud in order to store your data. 2) setup Maximo application to use S3 3) restart Maximo 4) migrate files from NFS storage to S3


Setup Maximo application to use S3

1) setup Maximo application to use S3

a. Login into Maximo
b. Go to System Properties Application
c. Change configurations
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mxe.cosaccesskey This value is the access_key_id described in the bucket.
mxe.cosendpointuri This value is the use-geo endpoint address: https://s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud
mxe.cosbucketname This value is the name defined in the bucket.
mxe.cossecretkey This value is the secret_access_key described in the bucket.
mxe.attachmentstorage

com.ibm.tivoli.maximo.oslc.provider.COSAttachmentStorage

Once this value is set, traditional doclinks will no longer work. To revert, this property must be removed and the server restarted.

mxe.doclink.doctypes.defpath cos:doclinks\default
mxe.doclink.doctypes.topLevelPaths cos:doclinks
mxe.doclink.path01 cos:doclinks=hostname/DOCLINKS
mxe.doclink.securedAttachment True

3) restart Maximo