Introduction

The Maximo Developer Tools provide command line tools for developing and deploying automation scripts and other customizations. It is the command line companion to the Maximo Script Deploy Visual Studio Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sharptree.maximo-script-deploy.

Install

Using npm:

$ npm install -g maximo-dev-tools

Settings

The configuration settings can be provided as command line arguments or in a settings JSON file or a combination of the two. The command line arguments override the values provided in the settings JSON file.

Command Line Arguments

Global

The following table provides the available global arguments.

Argument	Default	Description
--allow-untrusted-certs	false	Allow untrusted or invalid SSL certificates. Useful for testing when using self signed certificates, default is false.
--apikey | -a		The Maximo API key that will be used to access Maximo. If provided, the user name and password are ignored if configured.
--ca		Path to the Maximo server certificate authority (CA) if it is not part of the system CA chain.
--context | -c	maximo	The part of the URL that follows the hostname, default is maximo.
--host | -h		The Maximo host name or IP address without the http/s protocol prefix.
--install | -i	true	Indicates if the utility scripts should install and upgrade automatically, default is true.
--key | -k	.settings.json.key	The path to the encryption key for the settings encrypted values. A relative path is relative to the settings.json file directory.
--maxauth	false	Force native Maximo authentication, default is false.
--password | --passwd		The Maximo user password.
--port | -p	80 / 443	The Maximo server port, defaults to 80 if the --ssl argument is false, 443 if the --ssl argument is true.
--settings | -s	settings.json	The path to the settings file, default is settings.json.
--ssl	true	Indicates if SSL will be used, defaults to true.
--timeout | -t	30	The connection timeout in seconds, default is 30 seconds.
--username | -u		The maximo user name.
--help		Prints the help information.
--version		Prints the version number.

Encrypt

The encrypt command encrypts the plain text password and API key values in the settings file. There are no additional arguments for the encrypt command.

Extract

The extract command extracts scripts from the target Maximo system to a local directory.

Argument	Default	Description
--directory | -d	./	The directory to extract the scripts to, defaults is the current directory.
--overwrite | -o	true	Overwrite existing files if different from the server, default is true.
--type	script	The type of object to extract, form, report, screen or script.

Deploy

The deploy command deploys one or more script files, inspection forms or screens from the local machine to the target Maximo system.

Argument	Default	Description
--allowAdminMode | -a	false	Indicates that the deployment can place the server in Admin Mode and perform a Database Configuration if required. This option may cause a system disruption.
--deleteAll	false	Indicates if any script not in the current deploy directory, but on the server, will be deleted from the server. This option is may be destructive, the default is false.
--deleteList	delete.json	Path to a file that contains a JSON list of the scripts on the server to delete if they exist, the default is delete.json.
--directory | -d	./	The directory to deploy the scripts from, defaults is the current directory.
--file | -f		The path to a single script file to deploy, if a relative path is provided it is relative to the --directory argument path.
--recursive | -r	true	Indicates if subdirectories will be included when deploying all scripts, the default is true.

Log

The log command streams the Maximo log to the console. This can then be piped to a file using the OS > filename.log command.

Argument	Default	Description
--log-timeout	30	Number of seconds between logging requests, the default is 30.

Settings File

A sample settings JSON file is provided below with the default values.

{
    "allowUntrustedCerts": false,
    "apikey": undefined,
    "ca": undefined,
    "context": 'maximo',
    "maxauth": false,
    "host": undefined,
    "password": undefined,
    "port": 80|443,
    "ssl": true,
    "key": "~/.settings.json.key",
    "timeout": 30,
    "username": undefined,
    "install": true,
    "deploy": {
        "allowAdminMode": false,
        "file": undefined,
        "recursive": true,
        "directory": './',
        "deleteAll": false,
        "deleteList": "delete.json"
    },
    "extract": {
        "directory": "./",
        "overwrite": true
    }
    "log": {
        "timeout": 30
    },
}