System Plans

You can display the plans and the tasks used 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. In the navigation pane, select System Plans.
2. In 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

These tasks are described in further detail in System Plans. The table in the work pane displays the system plans that the 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. For more information, see Column configuration.

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.

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