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Troubleshooting system plan conversion

When you convert a system plan into the format that the System Planning Tool (SPT) uses, you might encounter some problems that you must resolve or understand better.

Problem: My Hardware Management Console (HMC) system plan is not as detailed as I expected it to be.

Solution: The following factors influence the quantity of data that you can capture when you create your system plan:

Type and level of management tool. You can capture most of the data by using an HMC Version 7.3.3, or later. Earlier versions of the HMC provide less detailed information for any managed system. You also cannot capture any VIOS provisioning information for POWER7® servers in earlier versions.
Operating environment. You can capture more data for logical partitions that run IBM® i than for those logical partitions that run on the AIX® or Linux operating system.

Ensure that you optimize the data that you collect in the system plan when you create the plan on the HMC.

Problem: I do not see some of my hardware in the converted plan

Solution: At this time, the SPT Conversion Wizard might not be able to identify all the hardware that is in your system plan. It identifies some components based on the information it has and ignores others if it does not have enough information to make an identification. When you get to the end of the wizard, you can view information about the hardware that the wizard was not able to identify. For more information about handling conversion messages, see Converting a system plan.

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Last updated: Thu, October 10, 2013