Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) User's Guide for versions B.05.x

Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
Utilizing Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
Chapter 786
Tracking the Purchase and Use of Temporary
Capacity
NOTE The reply e-mail message, sent from HP in response to the icod_notify
command, includes information on your remaining credits of temporary
capacity.
The HP audit application tracks temporary capacity usage in increments
of minutes. The initial purchase is converted from the number of
processor-days, to processor-minutes, and usage debits take place as the
audit application becomes aware of iCOD processor activations
The audit application sends the system contact an e-mail when the
available credit remaining for processor-days falls below five. This e-mail
notifies you to deactivate the iCOD processor, or submit a purchase order
to continue usage.
IMPORTANT If you leave an iCOD processor activated beyond the purchased
temporary capacity duration, the iCOD software does not
automatically deactivate the processor. You are responsible to either
purchase an additional unit of temporary capacity or purchase the
iCOD processor.
Continuation of
Temporary
Capacity
After an activated iCOD processor has exhausted its temporary
capacity duration, you may wish to leave the processor activated, and
initiate the purchase of an additional unit of temporary capacity.
Because the purchase of an additional temporary capacity unit is not
instantaneous, the processor usage (after the initial temporary
capacity duration has expired, but before your new unit of temporary
capacity is purchased and entered into the HP audit application) is
deducted from the amount of processor-days credited. For example, if you
submit a temporary capacity order ten days after running out of initial
temporary capacity processor-days, but keep the iCOD processor
activated, the ten processor-days are deducted from your available
processor-days, which you have just purchased.