About this guide

Overview

Instant Capacity An Instant Capacity system’s hardware is generally made up of the System Hardware following components:

•Cell boards

•Processors

•Memory

Every Instant Capacity system contains a combination of the above components that are either licensed (and available for activation) or unlicensed.

Instant Capacity The Instant Capacity software provides the means to:

Software

•Increase or decrease (load balance) system processing capacity (icod_modify command)

•View status and configuration of the system components (icod_stat command)

•Administer system identification and notification information (icod_modify command)

•Send system asset reports through encrypted e-mail to HP, if configured (icodd daemon)

•Send configuration change notification, through encrypted e-mail, to the specified system-contact

•Monitor and report system compliance (icodd daemon)

See Appendix C, “Instant Capacity Manpages,” on page 159 for details of these commands.

Utility Pricing

The Utility Pricing Solutions (or Instant Capacity) portal is located at

Solutions Portal

the HP web site:

 

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

 

After an unlicensed component is purchased, HP sends you a letter

 

containing instructions on how to obtain a right-to-use (RTU) codeword

 

from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal.

Instant Capacity

If asset reporting is configured, the icodd daemon sends asset reports,

Administration

as encrypted e-mail messages, to the Instant Capacity Administration

System

System, which saves information in the Instant Capacity database.

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