HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Version 9.x

7.11 Group Manager Availability (No Standby Manager)
If the active Group Manager becomes unavailable and a standby Group Manager is not defined
or not used, management of the GiCAP group is unavailable until the Group Manager is restored
or replaced. The GiCAP group members continue to operate as isolated Instant Capacity systems,
using whatever usage rights and temporary capacity they had available when the Group Manager
became unavailable. A GiCAP group member using borrowed usage rights can continue using
those usage rights. A GiCAP group member that has loaned usage rights to other members in
the GiCAP group cannot recover those usage rights until the Group Manager is restored.
If a standby Group Manager is not used, loaned and borrowed usage rights remain in place in
GiCAP group members when the active Group Manager is unavailable. All usage rights held
by the Group Manager itself are left unavailable until the Group Manager is restored.
Normally, usage rights are not held by the Group Manager, but this can occur after a member
is removed from a GiCAP group, or if the Group Manager becomes unavailable during the
transfer of usage rights from one GiCAP group member to another.
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