-v

Provide verbose status information. Include all levels of

 

information (group, manager and member). For Group

 

Managers, include resources being held by the Group

 

Manager including temporary capacity. For members,

 

include borrow and loan information as well as

 

partition-specific information such as the allocation of

 

resources among the hard partitions, and partition-specific

 

information about seized or seizable usage rights (see

 

icapmanage -x). This option is ignored if the -boption

 

is also specified.

 

This verbose option also attempts to contact every host of

 

each group member to check that two-way communication

 

can be established between the issuing group manager

 

(either active or standby) and each such host. The

 

icapmanage -scommand without -vattempts to contact

 

multiple hosts on a group member only if that is necessary

 

to find a host that responds. In either case, icapmanage

 

-sreports which hosts it failed to contact. Use of the -v

 

option can be useful as a general health check of group

 

communication.

-x<host>

Acquire core usage rights from the nPartition containing

 

the specified host to make them available to other group

 

members, also known as rights seizure. Rights seizure takes

 

almost all the available usage rights from the hard partition

 

containing the specified host. The specified host must be

 

known to the GiCAP manager (it appears in the output of

 

icapmanage -s) and not currently running. If other hosts

 

are associated with the same hard partition, they cannot

 

be currently running. The icapmanage -xoperation can

 

be performed once for each hard partition on the member.

 

For confirmation, the icapmanage -xcommand verifies

 

each known host on the hard partition. The hard partition

 

containing the specified host is left with one core usage

 

right per active cell. Any core usage rights in excess of this

 

amount becomes available for use elsewhere in the GiCAP

 

group. For example, if a partition of 2 cells is currently

 

consuming 6 core usage rights, icapmanage -x<host>

 

makes 4 core usage rights (6 - 2) available for reassignment.

 

While rights can be seized from any hard partition that is

 

unavailable, the Instant Capacity software makes some

 

additional restrictions when all partitions of a complex are

 

unavailable. As a result, there are different behaviors and

 

constraints depending on whether or not a partition can

 

be contacted on the specified member complex.

 

If, at the time of rights seizure, at least one member

 

partition can be contacted, then the software is able to make

 

an immediate adjustment to the available core usage rights,

 

just as if an icapmodify -doperation had been

 

performed before the specified hard partition stopped

 

running. This makes core usage rights available for

 

potential loans to other member systems. In this situation,

 

the seized core usage rights do not have an expiration date.

 

However, because there are other member partitions

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