HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for versions B.07.x

Temporary Instant Capacity for Unlicensed Processors
Temporary Instant Capacity Exceptions
Chapter 5 87
Temporary Capacity Negative Balance
A complex is out of compliance with the Instant Capacity contract if a
negative balance of temporary capacity occurs.
The Instant Capacity software sends an exception report (via e-mail) if
there is a negative balance of temporary capacity. Exception information
is also written to the syslog file. See “Handling Compliance Exceptions”
on page 106 for details of the exception report for a negative temporary
capacity balance.
If you continue to have more active processors than licensed processors
across the complex, a negative capacity balance will result in a license
enforcement action, as described in “Temporary Instant Capacity
Expiration and License Enforcement” on page 84. If there is a negative
temporary capacity balance but the number of licensed processors is
greater than or equal to the number of active processors, then the
complex remains in an exception state, but without (additional) license
enforcement action.
Purchasing an additional right-to-use (RTU) processor license for the
system clears out any previous violation of Temporary Instant Capacity.
Purchase of sufficient additional temporary capacity will also clear out a
negative balance.
Temporary Capacity Enforcement
When the temporary capacity balance has been depleted and you
continue to have more active processors than licensed processors across
the complex, a license enforcement action occurs on a partition reboot to
bring the system into a state closer to licensing compliance (by
deactivating one or more processors). Example 5-6 is an example of the
message that is sent when the license enforcement results in a partially
compliant state, but temporary capacity continues to be depleted.
Example 5-7 is an example of the message that is sent when the
enforcement is able to deactivate enough processors so that temporary
capacity is no longer being used.