Exporting a system-plan file

Use this procedure to export a system-plan file that is stored on a Hardware Management Console (HMC). You can export system-plan files to media that is mounted to the HMC (such as optical discs or USB drives), or you can export system-plan files to a remote site using FTP. This allows you to import the system-plan file into a different HMC and deploy the system plan to a managed system with identical hardware.

If you want to export the system-plan file to a remote site using FTP, the HMC must have a network connection to the remote site, an FTP server must be active on the remote site, and port 21 must be open on the remote site.

To export a system-plan file, you must be a super administrator. For more information about user roles, refer to Tasks and roles.

To export a system-plan file that is stored on an HMC, complete the following:

If you want to export the system-plan file to media, mount the media on the HMC. Complete the following:
1. Insert the media into the HMC or connect the media to the HMC.
2. On your HMC desktop (outside of any of the displayed windows), right-click Terminal > rshterm. The Restricted shell command line interface displays.
3. Type the command mount mountpoint, where mountpoint is the location at which the media is located. You can typically use mount /mnt/cdrom to mount an optical drive or mount /media/sda1 to mount a USB drive.
4. Type the command lsmediadev to list the mounted drives on the HMC and verify that the media is mounted and ready.
In the navigation area of your HMC, select System Plans.
In the contents area, select Manage System Plans.
Select the system-plan file that you want to export and click Export.

Specify whether you are exporting the system-plan file to locally mounted media or to a remote FTP site.

To where are you exporting the system-plan file?	Complete the following:
Locally mounted media	Select Export to media. Enter the path to which you want to export the system-plan file into the Directory field.
Remote FTP site	Select Export to a remote site. Enter the host name or IP address of the remote FTP site into the Remote site hostname field. Enter the user ID to use to access the remote FTP site into the User id field. Enter the password to use to access the remote FTP site into the Password field. Enter the path to which you want to export the system-plan file into the Remote directory field. If you do not enter a path, the HMC tries to export the system-plan file to the default path specified on the remote FTP site.

To where are you exporting the system-plan file?

Complete the following:

Locally mounted media

Select Export to media.
Enter the path to which you want to export the system-plan file into the Directory field.

Remote FTP site

Select Export to a remote site.
Enter the host name or IP address of the remote FTP site into the Remote site hostname field.
Enter the user ID to use to access the remote FTP site into the User id field.
Enter the password to use to access the remote FTP site into the Password field.
Enter the path to which you want to export the system-plan file into the Remote directory field. If you do not enter a path, the HMC tries to export the system-plan file to the default path specified on the remote FTP site.

Click Export. If the HMC returns an error, verify that the information you entered on this window is correct. If necessary, click Cancel, return to step 4, and redo the procedure, ensuring that the information you specify at each step is correct.

If you exported the system-plan file to media, you can unmount the media by using the umount command in the HMC command line interface. You can then import the system-plan file into a different HMC so that you can deploy the system plan to managed systems that are managed by the other HMC. For more information about importing the system-plan file into a different HMC, see Importing a system-plan file.