HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) 189

icapd(1M)

NAME

icapd --Instant Capacity (iCAP) daemon.

SYNOPSIS

icapd

DESCRIPTION

The icapd (formerly icodd) daemon is installed and started as part of the Instant Capacity software on all potential iCAP systems, and respawns itself if killed. If this daemon is not running, other Instant Capacity commands fail. The operations this daemon performs are vital in keeping the complexwide view of the Instant Capacity state current. The following entry is added to /etc/inittab in order to have icapd start and respawn itself:

icap:23456:respawn:/usr/lbin/icapd # Instant Capacity daemon

This daemon is not started on hardware that is not supported under the Instant Capacity program. If icapd is installed and running on a system with Instant Capacity components present (cores, cells, or memory), it sends daily asset report email to HP (if so configured), tracks temporary capacity, sends exception notifications, and maintains a healthy Instant Capacity state.

For more information about the functions that icapd performs for Instant Capacity systems, see the HP Instant Capacity user's guide located at /usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf.

The icapd daemon reports errors via syslog (see syslog(3C)). Exception notification email is sent to root and to the system contact email address (configured via the icapmodify command (see icapmodify(1M)).

The icapd daemon performs periodic operations based on the time of day. The icapd daemon is spawned by init and gets its time zone specification from the /etc/default/tz file. By default, the time zone specified in /etc/default/tz is EST5EDT. You can specify which time zone the icapd daemon uses to interpret its current time by modifying the /etc/default/tz file. For details about the time zone format, see environ(5). A restart of the icapd daemon is required before the new time zone value takes effect (that is, kill the /usr/lbin/icapd process).

AUTHOR

icapd was developed by HP.