Re: Reading an exported system plan

Well, not quite.  The planning tool says my sysplan is not in the right format and has to be converted.  When I push the button to convert the plan, the tool asks me questions about the hardware.  Such as which backplane I have.  I have no idea which backplane I have.  Right now I'm just guessing at answers to see what happens, but it's definitely not intended for us non-hardware folks.

On 12/19/2018 11:31 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Go find: System Planning Tool on the web.

Install that.

Now you can look at the system plan.


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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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Subject: Reading an exported system plan

So I got access to the HMC and figuring out the web interface and figured out how to export a system plan. So export I did. Only to get a file of type .plan. Well that didn't do much good. But I opened it in a hex editor and saw that it started with PK, so I broke out trusty 7-zip, and it told me the .plan file was indeed a ZIP archive, and inside was a file of type CDSML. Gotta be honest, never saw one of those in my life either, but my initial guess said "ML"? Must be XML.

And on opening the file, that's what I saw. So now that I have the XML, I can see that it's a very generic XML file, which means that it's nearly incomprehensible to human eyes. How do other folks work with this?

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