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Troubleshooting system plan creation for the HMC

Use this information to help resolve problems that you might encounter when creating a system plan with the Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 7 Release 3.3, and later.

Use HMC Version 7 Release 3.3, or later versions, to create system plans. These versions provide the best level of functions for capturing the highest quality and quantity of data from the managed system.

The system plan creation process writes any messages, including error messages to the /var/hsc/log/mksysplan.log. Use the information provided in this table to determine the type of problem you have and potential solutions for resolving the problem.

The following table contains information about resolving various errors that you might encounter when you create a system plan.

Table 1. Problems and solutions for system plan creation
Problem description Corrective actions
The system plan that I created on my POWER7® processor-based server does not contain any VIOS provisioning information for the logical partitions. You cannot create a system plan with this type of information for a POWER7 processor-based server.
The system plan that I created on my POWER7 processor-based server does not contain any operating environment installation information. You cannot create a system plan with this type of information for a POWER7 processor-based server.
My system plan creation on HMC 7.7.1 fails with an error message similar to the following example:
A system plan cannot be created from or
deployed on the system when the system has
its power off policy set to power off the
system after all the logical partitions are
powered off. Set the properties for this 
system to not power off after all the 
partitions are powered off to create or 
deploy the system plan.

This type of failure occurs during system plan creation on a POWER7 processor-based server because the attribute of Power off the system after all the logical partitions are powered off is selected on the General tab of the Managed Systems Properties page.

To successfully use the hardware discovery process to create a system plan, ensure that the Power off the system after all the logical partitions are powered off attribute for the managed system is not selected.

To verify this system attribute, complete these steps:
  1. In the HMC navigation area, select Systems Management > Servers.
  2. In the Tasks area, select Properties. The Properties window for the selected managed system is displayed.
  3. On the General tab, verify that the Power off the system after all the logical partitions are powered off attribute is not selected, and click OK.
After I created my system plan, a logical partition that I did not create, with the name IOR Collection LP exists on my system. How did this partition get on my system and can I delete it?

During the hardware discovery process, a new virtual logical partition named IOR Collection LP is created temporarily. This partition is typically deleted by the hardware discovery process before the mksysplan command is completed. If the mksysplan command or Create system plan task in the HMC completed, and the IOR Collection LP continues to exist after waiting several minutes, report the problem to the HMC technical support.

 Contact IBM® support, and additionally perform the following steps to delete the IOR Collection LP partition:
  1. Write down the partition ID from the partition view of the system on the HMC.
  2. Open a terminal connection to the HMC, either on the HMC console or remotely.
  3. Use this command: rmsyscfg -r lpar -m <managed system name> --id <partition id>
  4. For more information, use rmsyscfg --help for help on this command.
Parent topic: Creating a system plan by using the HMC
Related concepts:
Requirements for creating a system plan on the HMC

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Last updated: Thu, October 10, 2013