HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual Works exactly as the -aoption if n is greater than, Cores

	works exactly as the -aoption (if n is greater than the
	current number of active cores), or exactly as the -doption
	(if n is less than the current number of active cores).
	Specifying a value of n less than the number of cells in a
	partition will fail. In a virtual partition environment, if
	unused capacity is not available, this option will use the
	value of n as the desired number of cores to be active in
	the local virtual partition. If unused capacity is available,
	icapmodify will first activate cores from unused capacity
	before increasing the active cores. For further details of
	using this option in an virtual partition environment, see
	the Virtual Partition and Unused Capacity sections of
	Chapter 4 of the HP Instant Capacity user's guide for Version
	10.x located at /usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf.
	The icapmodify command fails if it is unable to set the
	value exactly as requested. However, a failed request can
	still make a partial change to the number of intended active
	cores.
-t	Authorize use of temporary capacity. This option,
	combined with either the -aor the -soption, specifies
	that a core activation is allowed to consume temporary
	capacity. Temporary capacity is consumed when the
	number of active cores exceeds the number of core usage
	rights. It is no longer used when the number of active cores
	is decreased to no more than the number of core usage
	rights available to the complex. Use icapmodify -dor
	-sto reduce or stop the use of temporary capacity. It is
	not necessary to use the -toption when using the -d
	option. If a previous activation via icapmodify resulted
	in temporary capacity being consumed in a virtual partition
	environment, deactivating a core with a vparmodify
	command temporarily reduces the consumption of
	temporary capacity. A subsequent core activation using
	vparmodify increases consumption of temporary capacity
	if the activation results in more active cores than core usage
	rights.
desc	Optional description to help customers identify this
	configuration change. This description becomes part of the
	Instant Capacity logfile (var/adm/icap.log) entry
	documenting the activation or deactivation. This
	description is also contained in the configuration change
	notification email.
user_name	Optional string identifying the person performing the core
	activation or deactivation. This can be any ASCII string,
	and becomes part of the Instant Capacity logfile (/var/
	adm/icap.log) entry documenting the activation or
	deactivation. The string specified here is also contained in
	the configuration change notification email.

UPGRADES

The icapmodify command fails if the system is in a state where a software upgrade is incomplete (the software on the system has been upgraded from a version earlier than B.06.00, but an upgrade codeword issued by the HP Utility Pricing Solutions portal was not applied to the complex). The

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