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

TiCAP Expiration Reminder
The iCAP 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 “TiCAP warning period” (page 57)), 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 TiCAP 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.
NOTE: Applying TiCAP codewords is possible even when some TiCAP cores are activated.
TiCAP warning period
By default, the iCAP 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.
TiCAP warning period 57