Importing a system-plan file

Use this procedure to import a system-plan file into a Hardware Management Console (HMC). You can import system-plan files from media that is mounted on the HMC (such as optical discs or USB drives), or you can import system-plan files from a remote site using FTP. You must import a system-plan file into an HMC before you can deploy the system plan in the system-plan file to a managed system. System plan files must have the extension .sysplan to be imported.

If you want to import the system-plan file from 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 import a system-plan file, you must be a super administrator. For more information about user roles, refer to Tasks and roles.

To import a system-plan file into an HMC, complete the following:

If you want to import the system-plan file from 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 Import System Plan.
Enter the name of the system-plan file into the System plan file name field. The name of the system-plan file must end with the .sysplan file name suffix.

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

From where are you importing the system-plan file?	Complete the following:
Locally mounted media	Select Import from media. Enter the path in which the system-plan file is located into the Directory field.
Remote FTP site	Select Import from 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 in which the system-plan file is located on the remote FTP site into the Remote directory field. If you do not enter a path, the HMC looks at the default path specified on the remote FTP site.

From where are you importing the system-plan file?

Complete the following:

Locally mounted media

Select Import from media.
Enter the path in which the system-plan file is located into the Directory field.

Remote FTP site

Select Import from 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 in which the system-plan file is located on the remote FTP site into the Remote directory field. If you do not enter a path, the HMC looks at the default path specified on the remote FTP site.

Click Import. If the HMC returns an error, return to step 4 and verify that the information you entered on this window is correct.

When you are done, you can deploy the system plan in the system-plan file to a managed system that is managed by the HMC. For more information about how to deploy the system plan, see Deploying a system plan. If you imported the system-plan file from media, you can unmount the media by using the umount command in the HMC command line interface.