WebSphere 8.5 is the kind of server product where you can just change your IP after installation, but Maximo is not that cooperative. Due to legacy reasons if you change your IP (or clone the installation to another machine) you wont be able to start the application in WebSphere or rebuild it from the ConfigUI utility.

In order to achieve this you need to change your IP in the following files:

C:\IBM\SMP\ConfigTool\wasclient\ThinWsadmin.bat (1 place)
C:\IBM\SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\properties\maximo.properties (1 place)
C:\IBM\SMP\etc\install.properties (2 places)
C:\IBM\SMP\ConfigTool\properties\config.properties (3 places)

You may try to update these values visually in ConfigUI, but in the way the ConfigUI utility is made up you are not supposed to visually change both the application server IP and the database IP and the same time, so just change the values by hand.

Start nodeagent, dmgr and the server containing Maximo if they were not started before.

Then open ConfigUI, go to “Update Database and build and deploy application EAR file” click finish and once it is done you are ready to start server1 through the dmgr so the app should be accessible.

Stop everything, start it again and Maximo should be working.