HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

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General System Administration and Performance Monitoring

instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) (updated for September 2001)

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instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) (updated for

September 2001)

IMPORTANT Update for June 2001

The iCOD product was removed from the HP-UX Operating Environmentsat the HP-UX

11i June 2001 Release. You can ﬁnd iCOD on the Support Plus media and at the

following web site:

http://software.hp.com.

iCOD and Pay Per Use Version B.04.00

Hewlett-Packard’s instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) and pay per use (PPU) software

products provide the ability to increase or decrease processor capacity instantly on

(speciﬁed) enterprise servers. iCOD and PPU software products are a part of the HP

Utility Pricing Solutions program.

There are two products associated with HP’s Utility Pricing Solutions program:

• iCOD (product number: B9073AA): You initially purchase a speciﬁed number of

activated processors and pay a right-to-access fee for a speciﬁed number of inactive

processors. After you activate an inactive processor, you pay an enablement fee.

• PPU (product number: T1322AA): You pay only for the average processor usage,

based on a ﬁxed/variable model. Pay per use is a new product and is available in

September 2001.

Locating iCOD Information

For versions previous to iCOD 4.0, the Release Notes contain two types of information:

• what is new, changed, or obsolete in the most recent release of iCOD as compared

with previous releases

• instructions on how to conﬁgure and manage iCOD systems

For iCOD version 4.0, the Release Notes contain only information on what is new,

changed, or obsolete as compared to previous versions of iCOD. The instructions on how

to conﬁgure and manage iCOD systems are contained in the Instant Capacity on

Demand (iCOD) and Pay Per Use (PPU) User’s Guide for version B.04.00.

• iCOD Release Notes

You can ﬁnd the iCOD Release Notes for version B.04.00 in the following

locations/media:

— For the most recent information, visit the following HP documentation web site

and search for “icod release notes”:

http://docs.hp.com