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

Temporary Capacity Expiration Reminder
The Instant Capacity software calculates when the temporary capacity balance will expire, based
on the current consumption rate. After the temporary capacity balance reaches a certain residual
number of days (see “Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period” (page 60)), a reminder email
message is automatically sent to the system contact, if one is specified, and root. These messages
are sent on a daily basis until temporary capacity expires. Example 12 shows a temporary capacity
expiration reminder email message. Note that the output from icapstatus during the warning
period includes a warning about the expiration of temporary capacity.
Example 12 Temporary Capacity Expiration Reminder
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Temporary Capacity Expiration Reminder
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**** Failure to perform the following steps will result in the complex ****
**** attempting to deactivate cores on any booting partitions until ****
**** the complex is in compliance with the Instant Capacity contract. ****
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This message is being sent to remind you that your Instant Capacity complex
(containing the partition krmt10b) has 3 cores currently consuming temporary
capacity (TiCAP) and that the temporary capacity balance at the current
consumption rate is projected to expire on or around:
12/31/08 16:00:00
You can view the current temporary capacity balance and consumption rate,
by using the icapstatus command.
To adjust the number of calendar days to receive the temporary capacity
warning before temporary capacity actually expires use: icapmodify -w
Before the temporary capacity balance runs out, you must perform one of the
following steps:
1. Purchase additional temporary capacity and apply the temporary
capacity codeword to the complex.
2. Deactivate cores until the number of inactive cores on
the complex matches the number of cores without usage rights,
reported by icapstatus.
3. Purchase additional core usage rights to match the number of cores
currently consuming temporary, and apply the Right to Use
codewords to the complex so that they can be permanently activated.
See the Instant Capacity user's guide at /usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf
for more information.
Temporary Instant Capacity Warning Period
By default, the Instant Capacity software sends the expiration reminder when the temporary capacity
balance is projected to expire within 15 days. You can adjust that warning period by specifying
a different value with the icapmodify command, using the -w option. For example, the following
command specifies a longer warning period, for more advance notice:
> icapmodify -w 20
The Temporary Capacity Warning Period has been successfully set to 20 days.
60 Temporary Instant Capacity