System Plans


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System Plans displays the plans and the tasks to deploy system plans to managed systems. A system plan contains a specification of the logical partition configuration of a single managed system. You can also use this node to import, export, and manage the files containing these system plans.

To display the plans and tasks:

  1. Select the System Plans node in the navigation pane.
  2. From the work pane, select a plan you want to work with by clicking in the Select column.
  3. From the tasks pad, click one of the following tasks:
    Create System Plan
    Deploy System Plan
    Export System Plan
    Import System Plan
    Remove System Plan
    View System Plan

The table in the work pane displays the system plans that the Hardware Management Console (HMC) manages and attributes related to the system plans.

The following attributes are set as the defaults. However, you can select or deselect the attributes that you want displayed in the table by clicking the Column configuration icon on the table toolbar. You can also reorder the columns, see Column configuration for more information.

Name
Displays the system plan file name.
Description
Specifies a description of the system plan.
Source
Displays how the system plan was created.
Version
Displays version information about the system plan.
Last Modified Date
Specifies the date when the system plan was last modified.

The create and deploy System Plans tasks are also displayed for a server under the Configuration task group from the Servers node of the navigation pane.

If there are no system plans available when you select the System Plans node, you can create or import a plan from the tasks listed in the tasks pad as shown in the following figure.


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