Re: Reading an exported system plan

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> 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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