HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) manual System Contact Requirement, Usage Rights Requirement

NOTE: Starting with iCAP version 8.02, asset reporting is turned off by default for new installations. However, for reinstallation and upgrades the asset reporting remains at its previous setting; if your system was manufactured prior to iCAP version 8.02, asset reporting might still be turned on. Unless you turn off asset reporting or configure the email connectivity, error messages are logged when the software attempts to send asset reports. The icapstatus command displays the current configuration for asset reporting. You turn asset reporting on or off with the icapnotify -acommand. For details about how to configure email connectivity, see “Configuring Email on Instant Capacity Systems” (page 202).

System Contact Requirement

Your organization can ensure the successful management of Instant Capacity systems by designating a system contact. The system contact receives the following types of email notifications from the Instant Capacity software:

•Core activation or deactivation

•Compliance exception

•Temporary capacity expiration

•Instant Capacity enforcement

•Virtual partition boot time compliance

•Hardware incompatibility in a GiCAP group (see “Upgrades and Global Instant Capacity” (page 121))

If a system contact is not specified, notification of core changes are not sent from the Instant Capacity partition. However, the root account on HP-UX and the SYSTEM account on OpenVMS continue to receive other notification messages.

Usage Rights Requirement

A system managed under the Instant Capacity program can include one or more components (core, cell, or memory) that are without usage rights. Before you can use these components, you must obtain additional usage rights. Usage rights can either be purchased from HP, or, if the system is a member of a GiCAP group, borrowed temporarily from another member of the group, as described in the section “Global Instant Capacity Sharing Rights” (page 108).

Purchase of usage rights from HP is managed through the use of RTU codewords. Contact your HP sales representative in order to purchase component-specific usage rights. After such a purchase, HP sends you a letter informing you how to retrieve the RTU codeword from the HP Utility Pricing Solutions website:

http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal

After the RTU codeword is retrieved from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal, the RTU codeword is applied to your server by the use of the icapmodify -Ccommand. When the codeword is applied, component-specific usage rights on the system are increased, allowing you to activate one or more additional components.

Instant Capacity Integration with Virtual Partitions (HP-UX)

The minimum required versions of vPars software for HP-UX systems are as follows:

•HP-UX 11i v1: vPars version A.03.05

•HP-UX 11i v2: vPars version A.04.01

•HP-UX 11i v3: vPars version A.05.01

Each of these versions provides a virtual partition environment which is tightly integrated with Instant Capacity, making it less likely for a complex to be misconfigured or to violate contractual compliance.

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