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

• Send configuration change notification, through encrypted email, to the specified system
contact.
• Monitor and report system compliance (icapd daemon on HP-UX, ICAP_SERVER process on
OpenVMS).
• Manage Global Instant Capacity groups (icapmanage command).
For details about these commands on HP-UX, see “Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages” (page 115).
For the OpenVMS equivalents of these commands, see “DCL Commands” (page 170).
Utility Pricing Solutions Portal
The Utility Pricing Solutions (or Instant Capacity) portal is located at the HP web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal
After you purchase a component without usage rights, HP sends you a letter containing instructions
on how to obtain an RTU codeword from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal.
Instant Capacity Administration System
If asset reporting is configured, the icapd daemon sends asset reports, in the form of encrypted
email messages, to the Instant Capacity Administration System, which saves information in the
Instant Capacity database.
Instant Capacity Database
The Instant Capacity database is a repository on an HP (internal) corporate server that tracks system
resources and provides the information for codeword generation. Note that this database should
not be confused with a Global Instant Capacity database, which is created on a customer Group
Manager system. See Chapter 7 (page 71) for details about Global Instant Capacity.
Other System Management Commands
Other system management commands (such as vparmodify, parCLI and parMgr on HP-UX)
provide an interface to modify system configuration that affects Instant Capacity contractual
compliance.
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