Pre-Requisite Instructions

Here are the pre-requisites for the Maximo Monitor Edge Data Collector exercises.

Attention

This lab requires Maximo Monitor 8.11 or later.
MAS application entitlement must be Limited or higher.

All Exercises

All Exercises require that you have:

  1. A computer with a Chrome or Firefox browser and internet connectivity.

  2. User access to a Maximo Application Suite environment that can create privileged gateways in the IoT tool. This require:
    o Your user must have access to Monitor and the IoT Tool
    o Your user must have administrator access to Maximo Application Suite.
    Your Exercise facilitator should have provided you with the information on your access.

  3. An IBM ID. If you don't have an IBM ID you can get one here:
    o Click Login to MY IBM button
    o Click Create an IBM ID link

  4. Test your access to the Maximo Application Suite environment.

Exercise 4

Docker must be running on your local machine while acting as the Edge Data Collector instance.
There are different ways to install the Docker engine depending of the package and the OS.
One multi platform option is Rancher Desktop. It is fairly easy to install Rancher Desktop,
as you just have to follow this guide: Running Docker locally