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

Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
Utilizing Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
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It is mandatory for your iCOD system to be able to send e-mail to the HP
audit application on a daily basis. This is necessary for HP to monitor
usage of your iCOD system so that temporary capacity usage can be
tracked. If the audit application stops receiving your iCOD system’s
e-mail, then HP makes assumptions on processor usage, specifically:
1. For the first five days of missing e-mail, the iCOD processor usage is
assumed to be identical to the processor usage as configured in the
last system report. If the last system report demonstrated no iCOD
processors are activated, then HP assumes this to be the state of the
system. If the last system usage indicates two iCOD processors are
activated, then two processor-days are deducted for each of the five
days.
2. After the fifth day of missing e-mail, HP assumes all iCOD
processors on the system are active. If the system has five iCOD
processors, HP deducts five processor-days, each day for the iCOD
system thereafter.
Auditing of temporary capacity is done at the system level on iCOD
systems that support partitioning. Therefore, although temporary
capacity may have been purchased for use by a specific partition, it is
available to all partitions in the system.
Temporary capacity credits are not transferable across iCOD systems.
All credits for processor-days for a system are considered lost when all
iCOD processors on that system are purchased, or when the iCOD
contract term expires for that system.
Buying all iCOD processors on the system, at the current list price,
clears out any previous violation of temporary capacity.