HP Instant Capacity support for HP Integrity Superdome 2 with Dynamic Cores - Release Notes (5900-3370, December 2013)

HP Instant Capacity version 10.x user guide
You can find the HP Instant Capacity Version 10.x User Guide at the following locations:
• On the BSC website:
www.hp.com/go/hp-icap-docs
These are the latest localized versions.
• On the March 2014 HP-UX 11i v3 Instant Information Media (English, Simplified Chinese,
and Japanese only)
• On the Instant Capacity 10.x HP-UX software product:
/usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf
NOTE: This is an earlier version and is in English only.
Limitations and restrictions
Audit snapshot is valid for the next 100 hours
The icapstatus -s command must be executed within the previous 100 hours to create any
codewords on the iCAP portal http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal.
Enabling Hyperthreading on iCAP systems
The icapstatus and vparstatus commands indicate the number of the activated physical
cores regardless of the lcpu_attr tunable value on nPars and vPars A.05.x.
Simultaneous execution of icapmanage -Q and icapmodify -[a|s] can cause timeout
errors
Simultaneous execution of icapmanage –Q(on standby Group Manager) and icapmodify
-a(on Group Member), can cause error A and error B respectively.
Error A on standby Group Manager:
Background operation may still be in progress. Please check the status
with icapmanage -s on each GM. Additionally syslog on a member OA will reflect changes
like an SGM-AGM switchover (if invoked).
icapmanage command failed.
ERROR: The following low-level error occurred:
PGS00414: Connection timed out.
Error B on Group Member: Curl perform returned a failure: 28
In spite of Error A, icapmanage –Q succeeds and can be confirmed from the syslog on the
member OA with the following entry :
icapd: Swapping of GM completed successfully. Current AGM:
<node1.corp.com> SGM: <node2.corp.com>
Additionally the switch over can be confirmed from the /var/adm/GiCAP.log of the new active
Group Manager <node1.corp.com> with the following entry:
Date: mm/dd/dd hh:mm:ss
Log Type: GiCAP operation
Description: Took control as active Group Manager.
Automatic database transfer has been enabled.
HP recommends that the user re-runs the icapmodify –a|s for core activation after validating
that icapmanage –Q is completed.
10 Instant Capacity support for HP Integrity Superdome 2 with dynamic cores release notes