HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide (762794-001, March 2014)

4 Using iCAP to manage processing capacity
This chapter covers the following topics:
• “Checking the status of your iCAP system” (page 35)
• “Setting system contact information” (page 37)
• “Applying a Right To Use (RTU) codeword” (page 38)
• “Activating cores” (page 39)
• “Deactivating cores” (page 41)
• “Overriding deferred activation and deactivation” (page 42)
• “Load-balancing active cores” (page 43)
• “Understanding and managing intended active values” (page 44)
• “Activations and deactivations in a virtual partition environment” (page 44)
• “Assigning a cell to a partition” (page 47)
• “Unassigning a cell from a partition” (page 48)
• “Balancing the distribution of I/O interrupts” (page 49)
• “Software application considerations” (page 49)
• “Test activation of cores using temporary capacity” (page 50)
• “Replacement of failed cores” (page 50)
Checking the status of your iCAP system
You can use the icapstatus command to view the status of your iCAP system. The icapstatus
command, issued without options, provides the following information:
• Version number of the iCAP software
• System identification information (system ID, serial number, product number, unique ID)
• System contact email address
• iCAP 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
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