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

4 Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System” (page 37)
• “Setting System Contact Information” (page 39)
• “Applying a Right To Use (RTU) Codeword” (page 40)
• “Activating Cores” (page 41)
• “Deactivating Cores” (page 43)
• “Overriding Deferred Activation and Deactivation” (page 44)
• “Load-Balancing Active Cores” (page 45)
• “Understanding and Managing Intended Active Values” (page 46)
• “Activations and Deactivations in a Virtual Partition Environment” (page 46)
• “Assigning a Cell to a Partition” (page 49)
• “Unassigning a Cell from a Partition” (page 50)
• “Software Application Considerations” (page 51)
• “Test Activation of Cores Using Temporary Capacity” (page 51)
• “Replacement of Failed Cores” (page 52)
Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System
You can use the icapstatus command to view the status of your Instant Capacity system. The
icapstatus command, issued without options, provides the following information:
• Version number of the Instant Capacity software
• System identification information (system ID, serial number, product number, unique ID)
• System contact email address
• Instant Capacity From: email address
• Asset reporting status (on or off)
• Temporary capacity warning period (in days)
• Exception status (indicates if complex is in an exception state)
• If a member of a GiCAP group, membership information and borrow/loan status of usage
rights
• Local virtual partition status (if applicable):
Total number of assigned cores◦
◦ Number of active assigned cores
◦ Number of inactive assigned cores
◦ Additional cores that can be assigned with current usage rights
◦ Number of cores that could be assigned with additional usage rights
◦ Number of cores that can be assigned with temporary capacity
◦ Number of cores currently unavailable for assignment
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