HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual Instant Capacity Requirements, Program Requirements

Instant Capacity Requirements

Program Requirements

To participate in the Instant Capacity version 9.x program, you must comply with the following conditions of the HP Utility Pricing Solutions program:

•Maintain the HP Instant Capacity software on each HP-UX or OpenVMS partition in the system. The Instant Capacity software is a nonintrusive, low-overhead software module that resides on the partition.

•Migrate to later Instant Capacity software versions as they become available.

For specifics about your individual program requirements, see the Utility Pricing Solutions contract from HP or your authorized channel partner.

IMPORTANT: Participants in the Utility Pricing Solutions program who do not meet these requirements may be in breach of contract. This can result in unnecessary expense for both the program participant and HP.

Software Requirements

Every HP-UX and OpenVMS partition in an Instant Capacity system is required to have the Instant Capacity software installed and the icapd daemon running (on HP-UX systems), or the ICAP_SERVER process running (on OpenVMS systems). You must maintain the Instant Capacity software until all program requirements are fulfilled and until the system is no longer considered an Instant Capacity system. If you are using GiCAP, all systems must be running Instant Capacity version 9.x.

NOTE: For necessary HP-UX updates, install the latest Operating Environments Update Release (OEUR) or Application Release (AR) update, if possible. This ensures that you install all required products and versions. Instant Capacity does not work correctly with HP-UX releases prior to December 2004.

Your Instant Capacity system is ordered and shipped with all of the following required software and dependent products, with the exception of the vPars software. If your system’s operating system is reinstalled or installed with Ignite-UX, ensure that the following software requirements are satisfied.

HP-UX 11i v1 Requirements and Dependent Products

The following software is required for Instant Capacity version 9.x on HP-UX 11i v1:

•HP-UX 11i v1

•iCOD software bundle B9073BA (version 9.x) — On the 11i v1 Applications Software media, or download the most recent version from the HP Software Depot at http://www.hp.com/ go/softwaredepot.

•The kernel configuration must include the diag2 module.

•WBEM B8465BA bundle (version A.02.05 or higher)

•nParProvider bundle (version B.12.01.06.02 or higher, available from the OE media)

•If you have a virtual partitioned environment, the Virtual Partitions (vPars) software (bundle T1335AC) must be version A.03.05 or higher. vPars is available separately and is not included with the OE.

•(GiCAP only) The CIM Server configuration property sslClientVerificationMode must be set to a value of “optional” on all GiCAP Group Managers and on all OS instances of all member systems. (The CIM Server may need to be restarted if the property was not previously set to this value.) For details, see cimconfig(1M). Note that communication between

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