Re: Reading an exported system plan

I don't know if I guessed right or wrong on my backplane.

SPT gives me three options: EJ0N, EJ0N+EJ0S and EJ0P.  Looking through the QPCSMPR spooled file generated by SST, I see a number of entries related to BACKPLANE, but none of them have anything similar to those values.  In fact, the string "EJ" is nowhere in the printed report.

And changing the backplane selection didn't seem to help with the identification issue below.  SPT still doesn't recognize 57D8.

Clearly my meager hardware knowledge and aggressive guessing only gets me so far.  Maybe if I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night...


On 12/20/2018 8:53 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Okay, thank, Jim.  I'll try that next.

But just as a note, I tried walking through the conversion steps and SPT tells me about four locations (two on my production partition, two unassigned) that it cannot identify.  One is C14, which is my RAID controller (okay, I'm assuming that based on Googling and DSPHDWRSC and otherwise knowing just enough to be dangerous).  It's CCIN 57D8, and when I type that into the Identify Hardware panel in the SPT, it says "SPT could not provide any feature code choices for the lookup string entered...".

It doesn't recognize 57D8?  That's a little problematic.  Maybe, though, it's because I guessed wrong on my backplane (??) so I'll see if the SST steps below help.

Pluggin along...


On 12/20/2018 8:46 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

STRSST, option 1, option 7, press F6. Back out

The listing provided will tell you everything you need to do the conversion.

I never said it would not require a little help......


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Subject: 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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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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