TRM Offers Maximo® Application

Performance Testing

Do you find yourself:

 Deploying Maximo for the first time?

 Applying patches and/or upgrading Maximo from a previous version?
 Implementing a new configuration release of Maximo (e.g., changes and/or adding major functionality)?
 Moving to a new hardware (e.g., adding more server horsepower, adding 3rd party hardware such as load balancers) and/or software
platform (e.g., Windows to Sun, SQL Server to Oracle)?
 Adding more transactional load due to increased utilization (e.g., users and/or interfaces)?
 Concerned about how your end-to-end infrastructure will scale to provide adequate availability and performance in support of Maximo?

Events like these can pose tremendous risk when it comes
to an acceptable level of performance and availability of
your Maximo system. Being proactive and mitigating risk
head-on in a pre-production environment prior to going
live with significant changes to the system simply put is the
smart thing to do.
TRM’s partnership with Hewlett Packard combines Maximo
performance and optimization expertise (TRM SE Consulting
Services) with a market-leading load testing software tool
(HP LoadRunner®).

Organizations that fail to address this risk through a

proven mitigation strategy are often times left with a Load Testing Infrastructure
system that might functionally deliver, but comes up short
on adequate performance and availability. Without
adequate performance and availability, utilization of the
system typically decreases, along with a confidence in the
departments that were responsible for the deployment and
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sustainability of Maximo. This could lead to requiring costly

measures to address those issues, or even result in a failed
program.

TRM’s Systems Engineering organization has years of proven

experience in consulting, planning, and executing Maximo
Performance Testing. Our clients include the U.S. Navy,
New York Power Authority, Dominion Power, Department of
Interior, Kellogg Brown and Root, Colorado Springs Utilities,
Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, and
Eastern Municipal Water District.
 TRM’s Maximo® Application Performance Testing Offering
TRM’s Maximo Application Performance Testing includes
these steps:
• We begin by working closely with your team to thoroughly
understand the Maximo system configuration and
architecture
• With input from the team, we define and develop a
“Maximo workload model” that consists of business
processes (e.g., Work Order, Purchase Order, Reporting,
Inventory, etc.) with transactions that represent
anticipated transactional load and behavior
• The Maximo workload model is used to develop load
test scripts and scenarios using HP LoadRunner. The
load test scenarios are defined and aligned with the
load test objectives (e.g., need to scale up to 100
concurrent users with ‘adequate’ performance and
availability, followed by a stress test to see where the
system peaks.)
• TRM SE Consultants arrange an onsite visit to execute
the Maximo load test scenarios – using the LoadRunner
Controller. The scenarios are staged, executed and
data collapsed to Load Generators where synthetic
load is generated from.
• We then review load testing results, recommend system
tuning (if necessary), and rerun the load test to validate
the recommendations.
What’s included
• TRM resources include an assigned Project Manager
along with up to three (3) Senior Systems Engineers
highly skilled in the Maximo system configuration and
architecture – skills includes but not limited to server
hardware, 3rd party hardware, Windows/Sun/AIX,
WebSphere/WebLogic, Oracle/SQL Server, Actuate
and MEA.
• Travel includes one (1) week long site visit by a TRM
engineer to work with you to define the “Maximo
Typical execution plan and timeframe
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Maximo® is a registered trademark of IBM.
HP Loadrunner is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard.
workload model” and one (1) week long site visit by
a TRM engineer to execute the load test scenarios with
other TRM engineers providing ‘reach-back’ support as
required.
• The Maximo workload model will consist of a maximum
of six (6) business processes each containing no more
than 10 transactions each (total of 60 transactions) and
SQL scripts to emulate current interface transactional
load.
• Load test scenarios will consist of calibration runs,
baseline, and up to 3 official load tests (load tests
beyond 3 can be executed at an additional cost).
• Load test debrief and report
• Total Estimated Cost: $75,000.00 (includes all Labor,
Travel, ODC, and one-time use of HP LoadRunner)
For budgetary purposes only – scope and cost is subject
to change depending on the actual requirements and
expectations of the client.
Client Responsibilities Include
• Providing the hardware for the HP Load Generators
and Monitoring Console
• Providing remote access to the Maximo system for
remote scripting of the business processes
• Opening port 443 outbound on the firewall to allow
the HP LoadRunner Controller to connect to Load
Generators and Monitoring Console
• Maximo functional subject matter experts to assist in
the development of the business process scripts and
workload model
• Maximo IT support staff (e.g., system administrators,
network administrators, database administrators, etc.)
to assist during the execution and interpretation of the
performance load test, as well as participating in any
remediation measures as a result of the analysis