HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (5900-1581, March 2011)

-v Provide verbose status information. Include all levels of
information (group, manager and member). For Group
Managers, include resources being held by the Group
Manager including temporary capacity. For members,
include borrow and loan information as well as
partition-specific information such as the allocation of
resources among the hard partitions, and partition-specific
information about seized or seizable usage rights (see
icapmanage -x). This option is ignored if the -b option
is also specified.
This verbose option also attempts to contact every host of
each group member to check that two-way communication
can be established between the issuing group manager
(either active or standby) and each such host. The
icapmanage -s command without -v attempts to contact
multiple hosts on a group member only if that is necessary
to find a host that responds. In either case, icapmanage
-s reports which hosts it failed to contact. Use of the -v
option can be useful as a general health check of group
communication.
-x <host> Acquire core usage rights from the nPartition containing the
specified host to make them available to other group
members, also known as rights seizure. Rights seizure takes
almost all the available usage rights from the hard partition
containing the specified host. The specified host must be
known to the GiCAP manager (it appears in the output of
icapmanage -s) and not currently running. If other hosts
are associated with the same hard partition, they cannot be
currently running. The icapmanage -x operation can be
performed once for each hard partition on the member. For
confirmation, the icapmanage -x command verifies each
known host on the hard partition. The hard partition
containing the specified host is left with one core usage right
per active cell. Any core usage rights in excess of this
amount becomes available for use elsewhere in the GiCAP
group. For example, if a partition of 2 cells is currently
consuming 6 core usage rights, icapmanage -x <host>
makes 4 core usage rights (6 - 2) available for reassignment.
While rights can be seized from any hard partition that is
unavailable, the Instant Capacity software makes some
additional restrictions when all partitions of a complex are
unavailable. As a result, there are different behaviors and
constraints depending on whether or not a partition can be
contacted on the specified member complex.
If, at the time of rights seizure, at least one member partition
can be contacted, then the software is able to make an
immediate adjustment to the available core usage rights,
just as if an icapmodify -d operation had been
performed before the specified hard partition stopped
running. This makes core usage rights available for potential
loans to other member systems. In this situation, the seized
core usage rights do not have an expiration date. However,
because there are other member partitions running iCAP
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