Opening a plan


Use the following procedure to open a plan.

Note

After launching the Planning tool, the Actions pane displays a list of Recent Plans. As a shortcut, you can click any plan in the list to open the plan.

 

  1. From the Cost Analyzer console, click the Planning tool tab.
  2. From the Actions pane, click Open Plan.

    Tip

    Alternatively, you can click on any plan from the list of Recent Plans to open that plan directly.

  3. From the Open Plan dialog, select the plan you want to open and click Open Plan.

    The Planning tool opens the Plan as shown in the following figure:

    Figure: Sample Plan

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    Plan legend

     

    #

    Description

    Details

    1

    Toolbar buttons

    You can use the toolbar buttons to perform the actions described in Table 1:

    2

    Information message

    Status of the evaluation summary report for the plan

    You can click on this message to open the evaluation summary report for the plan.

    3

    List of LPARs on the CPC

    You can click an LPAR to view LPAR level reports and charts.

    4

    List of CPCs

    You can click a CPC to view CPC level reports and charts.

    5

    Plan Name

    Hovering over the plan name displays a tooltip of the plan details

    6

    Plan Usage Month

    Month and year of plan

     

    Table: Planning tool toolbar buttons

    Toolbar button

    Description

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    View changes made to the plan

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    View plan evaluation results

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    Close the plan

  4. Perform one of the following actions:

    • Click a CPC to view CPC level reports and charts.
    • Click an LPAR to view LPAR level reports and charts.

    The Planning tool opens the selected object. Depending on which level you select, you can perform operations on the objects of the CPC level or LPAR level. For more information, see Overview-of-LPAR-and-Workload-plans.

 

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