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Chapter 4. Solution Environment

Maximo Asset Management Essentials requires multiple software servers that can be installed on separate, dedicated server machines (for best performance), or the same physical server. The different components of the Maximo Asset Management Essentials environment are listed below:

￿Database: The Maximo database serves as the repository for all CI information.

￿Application Server: Maximo Asset Management Essentials is built using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) technology, which requires a commercial application server, such as IBM WebSphere® Application Server. The Application Server consists of Maximo Asset Management Essentials applications using JavaServer™ Pages (JSP™), XML, and Maximo Asset Management Essentials-application-specific business components.

￿HTTP server: A separate, dedicated HTTP server can be configured to work with the J2EE application server.

￿Directory server: A directory server can be configured to work with Maximo Asset Management Essentials to maintain lists of users and groups for security purposes.

￿Administrative system: The administrative system is used to deploy Maximo Asset Management Essentials. After the initial deployment, the administrative system is used to make updates or changes to the deployment. Changes to the Maximo Asset Management Essentials deployment typically require that

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