Use the System Plan Viewer to review the detailed information in the selected system plan. The System Plan Viewer is available from one of three applications:
You can use the System Plan Viewer from within the System Planning Tool (SPT) to view plans that originated any one of the these three applications.
The System Plan Viewer consists of four main areas:
You use the navigation tree to determine which aspects of the system plan to view. Some levels of the tree can be expanded or collapsed to reveal more entries. Entries in the tree with a + (plus) symbol contain further entries and are expandable by clicking on the + symbol. When an entry is expanded, the + symbol changes to a - (minus) symbol. Clicking the - symbol collapses the entry and hides any further entries that it contains. Clicking on an entry in the tree displays the contents for that entry in the contents pane.
The first level of the navigation tree is the system plan name. If necessary, select the + symbol next to the name to expand the file and view the main entries within the tree for the system plan.
Review the following information to learn more about how to navigate through, and interact with, the system plan:
When you expand the system plan name in the navigation pane, the following views are available for your selection:
Systems in system_plan_name
This expandable view groups all the systems that the plan describes. This view displays the complete set of properties for all systems in the plan, including partition and hardware properties for these systems. You can expand this view to access views for individual systems in the plan.
At the top of this view, the About section provides basic information about the system plan, including the system plan name, description of the plan (if any), the name and version of the application that last updated the system plan, and the date of the last update.
Note: An error message of 'This system plan is not valid for deployment' in the Contents view of the plan indicates that the system plan is either incomplete or contains information that is internally inconsistent. Consequently, you cannot deploy this plan to a managed system successfully.
System_name
This expandable view indicates the name of an individual system that the plan describes and displays the complete set of properties for the selected system. You can expand this view to access views for partitions and hardware for the system.
Partitions
This expandable view groups all the partitions that the system plan describes for a system. This view displays a number of properties and the Partition Profiles (PP) for all partitions on the selected system. You can expand this view to access views for individual partitions for the system.
Partition_name
This view indicates the name of an individual partition on a system that the system plan describes and displays a number of properties and the Partition Profiles (PP) for the selected partition. Each partition profile provides the following information:
- Profile properties: includes general properties, memory, and processors for the partition
- Virtual Ethernet properties
- Virtual SCSI properties
- Virtual Serial properties
- Virtual SCSI storage properties (AIX/Linux partition type that uses VIOS storage only)
- Hardware properties
- Tagged I/O (IBMi partition type only)
- Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) properties (VIOS partition type only)
- Networking properties (VIOS partitions only)
- Storage properties (VIOS partitions only)
Networking
This view, which is available only for Virtual I/O Server partitions, shows the networking properties for a VIOS partition. Information can include physical Ethernet device driver settings, EtherChannel, shared Ethernet adapters, and virtual Ethernet details.
Storage
This view, which is available only for Virtual I/O Server partitions, shows the storage properties for a VIOS partition. Information can include disks, SAN volumes, SAN volume settings, storage pools, storage assignments, and virtual SCSI volume mapping details.
Hardware
This expandable view groups all System Units and Expansion Units that the system plan describes on a system. This view displays properties for System Units and Expansion Units for all hardware units on the selected system. You can expand this view to access views for individual hardware units on the system.
Hardware_name
This view indicates the name of the hardware on a system that the system plan describes and displays the complete set of properties for the selected hardware. Hardware naming is in the form: 'MachineType_Model_number'.
This view provides a set of tables for each hardware unit on the system. These tables provide configuration information for the following system units and expansion unit:
- Ethernet Ports
- PCI cards
- Drives
- Host Ethernet adapters, if applicable (also referred to as Integrated Virtual Ethernet)
These tables provide information about all backplane and slot configurations for the system. If the system has a slot in which no device exists, the backplane and slot table cells display no values. Clicking on Expand / Collapse System Image below either the PCI Cards table or the Drives table allows you to view or to hide a graphical representation of the hardware configuration for these units.
Summary
This expandable view provides summary information for all partitions and all products that the system plan describes for the system. You can expand this view to access individual summary views for all partitions and for all products on the system.
Features
This expandable view displays two tables: one for Parts and one for Partitions/Feature Codes. The Parts table lists all the orderable feature codes and counts the orderable number and total number of feature codes contained in the system plan. The Partitions/Feature Codes table lists all the orderable feature codes for each partition in the system plan.
Partitions
This Partitions view displays three tables: one for Processors, one for Memory, and one for OS Details. The Processors table provides summary information for all processors with partition assignments in the system plan. The Memory table provides summary information for the memory assigned to each partition in the system plan. The OS Details table provides summary information for the operating system defined for each partition in the system plan
Messages
This expandable view groups messages by system and is available only when you access the System Plan Viewer from the System Planning Tool. This view displays the following types of messages that apply to the system plan as a whole:
- Disclaimers / Warnings - These are static messages that provide information pertinent to all system plans.
- Additional Warnings - These are static messages that provide information pertinent to being able to use the system plan. For example, this section includes any messages regarding required cabling that the user must perform to deploy the system plan successfully.
You can expand this view to access messages that apply to individual systems in the system plan.
Each system messages view provides tables for each of the following types of dynamic messages that apply to a specific system in the system plan:
- Errors
- Warnings
- Information
The following actions are available for working with a system plan:
Show Comments / Hide Comments
Clicking this option allows you to view or hide any comments in the system plan. When comments are active for a system plan, they are represented by a paper clip icon and the button name is Hide Comments. When comments are not active, the button name is Show Comments.
Text Report / Default Report
Clicking this option, which is available only when you access the System Plan Viewer from the System Planning Tool, allows you to view the system plan in one of two formats: a flat-text version or the default version with tables and images. Clicking Text Report displays a flat-text version of the system plan in the contents pane which you can save to disk and changes the button name to Default Report.
Save
Clicking this option, which is available only when you access the System Plan Viewer from the System Planning Tool, allows you to save the flat-text version of the system plan file. This option becomes available when you click Text Report.
Clicking this option allows you to print the current view of the system plan in the content pane. For example, if the current view is for a specific partition, clicking Print results in the section of the system plan for that specific partition being printed only.