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IBM Global Configuration Solutions and Operations
24 February 2015
IBM e-config Education
ServicePacs and Services 'Mass Update' Feature
Supported in e-config 27 January 2015
Updated 24 February 2015 to add IBM POWER
Systems
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IBM ServicePacs and Mass Update e-config Education v3 022415.pdf
Product Definition
Overview
- Supported in e-config as “non-SIU” hardware machine
type models
- Available for selection for applicable System Storage
hardware machine type model products
e-config configuration flow
IBM ServicePacs
for IBM POWER Server Products
Selecting POWER ServicePacs from the e-config Product Wizard
- Start e-config 'Initial Order'
- Select an applicable POWER System product e.g. 8202-E4D
- Select the 'ServicePacs' tab
- Note: both 6661-A01 and 6664-D01 are Defaulted. To remove the ServicePac, change it's
quantity ('Qty') to zero.
- Note: Use the new Software/Service Mass Update function and select 'Do Not Configure
ServicePacs' to easily remove all ServicePacs (page 13)
FIGURE 1
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FIGURE 2
- e-config will generate a message which must be read by the user. This message
provides some information about the ServicePac. Once the message is read and OK
is selected, the message will change to an informational message
FIGURE 3
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e-config configuration flow
IBM ServicePacs
for IBM System Storage Products
Selecting Storage ServicePacs from the e-config Product
Wizard
- Start e-config 'Initial Order'
- Select an applicable System Storage product e.g. 1747-HC1
- Select the 'ServicePacs' tab
- Note: both 6661-A01 and 6664-D01 are Defaulted. To remove the ServicePac, change it's
quantity ('Qty') to zero.
- Note: Use the new Software/Service Mass Update function and select 'Do Not Configure
ServicePacs' to easily remove all ServicePacs (page 13)
FIGURE 4
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Selecting Storage ServicePacs from the e-config Product
Wizard
- Note if you DO NOT visit the 'ServicePacs' tab you will receive this error window when
you select 'Configure' button (Figure 4)
- In this example System Storage product 1747-HC1 was selected and the ServicePacs
tab was not visited by the e-config user
- The error window will be displayed for each System Storage product that is
configured if the ServicePacs tab for the product was not visited
FIGURE 5
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e-config Proposed Report Output
- For the applicable System Storage products, e-config will now automatically create 2 new items:
1) On the hardware product, a new set of features will be included for the new ServicePacs. The
correct feature will be selected by e-config based on your selection on the ServicePacs tab.
Note: Even if you select not to include a ServicePac, a feature will be added to the hardware product
(1747-HC1 in this example)
2) A new set of ServicePac products will be included. Depending on your selections on the
ServicePac tab, one or more of these products will be added by e-config. These new ServicePac
products will appear in the hardware section of the e-config outputs e.g. 6661 and 6664 (Figure 4)
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e-config configuration flow
Software/Service Mass Update Function
Mass Update Function now Available for Services
Existing Function renamed to 'Software/Service Mass Update'
- Now available in the e-config Storage Standalone and POWER models
- Available via the 'Wizard' list (Figure 7)
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'Software/Service Mass Update' Wizard
- Open the wizard
- Select either "All Hardware" or one or more of the hosts: (Figure 8)
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'Software/Service Mass Update' Wizard
- Select "Configure ServicePacs" to configure ServicePacs on all the selected hosts
- Select "Do not configure Servicepacs" to remove ServicePacs from all selected hosts
(Figure 9)
- Select 'Configure' and you are done!
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