HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual Icapmodify if a configuration change

How can I obtain codewords for newly purchased usage rights if the Utility Pricing Solutions portal is down? If the Utility Pricing Solutions portal is down, contact the HP Response Center. The Response Center can create an emergency codeword via the Instant Capacity codeword backup tool.

What licensing is required for the Instant Capacity software? For Instant Capacity version 9.x, to activate additional components (cores, cell boards, or memory), you must acquire additional usage rights individually. For details, see “Usage Rights Requirement” (page 31)s. To create a Global Instant Capacity group, you must purchase sharing rights. For more information about sharing rights, see “Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights” (page 108).

The resulting configuration of my Instant Capacity system does not agree with what I ordered from HP. How did this configuration change occur? The Instant Capacity software can control the granularity of processor activation or deactivation to the single-core level. The Instant Capacity ordering and manufacturing rules often do not allow such fine granularity.

The Instant Capacity ordering rules dictate the quantity of cores with and without usage rights in the cell boards. Because the Instant Capacity software distributes the core usage rights (for a given partition) in a manner that optimizes loads across all cells, the resultant configuration might be different than the original order. However, the number of cores with and without usage rights matches what was ordered.

For example, suppose you order an rx8620 server with 2 cell boards, in which the first cell board contains 4 active cores with usage rights, and the second cell board contains 2 active cores with usage rights and 2 inactive cores without usage rights, for a total of 6 active and 2 inactive cores. At run time, the Instant Capacity software balances the distribution of active cores across the cell boards so that each cell has 3 active cores with usage rights and 1 inactive core without usage rights.

How does Instant Capacity interact and coexist with partitions running software other than HP-UX? Instant Capacity is supported only on HP-UX and OpenVMS for Integrity systems. If other partitions of an Instant Capacity system are running another operating system, all the system components in the non-HP-UX and OpenVMS partitions appear to the Instant Capacity software as active components (with usage rights). When verifying the correct number of inactive components without usage rights, only the HP-UX and OpenVMS partitions are examined.

What email is sent by the Instant Capacity software? The following table lists the email messages sent to the system from the Instant Capacity software. On OpenVMS systems, the iCAP software agent is ICAP_SERVER rather than icapd.

Table 10-1 Email sent by the Instant Capacity software

Triggered By	Email Message
icapmodify (if a configuration change	Information about the configuration change is sent to the system
occurs)	contact, if specified, and if change notification is set to “on”.
icapd (daily, when the projected TiCAP	A temporary capacity expiration notification is sent to the system
balance expiration is less than the warning	contact, if specified, and root.
period: by default, when less than 15 days)
icapd (daily, if more than expected cores,	An exception report (for noncompliance) is sent to the system contact,
memory, cells, are active; also if TiCAP has a	if specified, and root.
negative balance)
icapd (if one or more cores are deactivated	An Instant Capacity enforcement message is sent to the system contact,
at boot time to enforce compliance)	if specified, and root.
vPars startup (when the virtual partition has	Information about why the virtual partition is not being allowed to
more cores assigned to it than the number of	boot is sent to the system contact, if specified, and root.
intended active cores for the nPartition)

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