HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for Versions 8.x

made inactive within 12 hours. If this is not done, the
partition may begin to consume temporary capacity. If
temporary capacity is not available the complex may no
longer be in compliance with the iCAP contract. Cells may
be made inactive by removing them from the partition,
shutting down the partition from within the OS by using
shutdown -R -H, or with the MP RR command.
If at the time of rights seizure all member partitions are
unreachable, the rights seizure is “deferred” and must be
viewed as a limited and immediate “loan” of usage rights
from the specified partition to the group. This loan of seized
usage rights will expire in 10 days. Upon expiration, usage
rights are automatically restored to the member partitions
from which they were seized. The expiration date for a
rights seizure operation effectively terminates the period
during which the core usage rights are available to other
group members for purposes of disaster recovery. If none
of the member partitions are reachable by the expiration
date for a particular member, the usage rights will
automatically be restored (reassigned) to the member
partition (or complex, in the case of unassigned seized
rights) from which they were seized. However, note that
if the seized usage rights have been redeployed to other
members and are not released at the expiration time, the
group may go out of compliance or temporary capacity
may be used to maintain compliance.
If any partition of the inaccessible member from which
rights seizures were deferred reconnects to the group
before the expiration date, the seized core usage rights (for
all partitions) are finalized as a “loan” from the member
to the group, the expiration date is no longer relevant, and
the usage rights can thereafter be manipulated with normal
icapmodify operations.
Instant Capacity version 8.02.01 is required on all Group
Managers and version 8.02 or later is required on all hosts
in the GiCAP member in order to seize usage rights from
a completely unreachable complex. The icapmanage -x
operation can be performed once for each hard partition
on the member.
-z <host>
Restore previously seized core usage rights to the specified
host. Core usage rights must be available in the GiCAP
group or the command will fail.
This option can be useful particularly when core usage
rights have been seized from systems running vPars,
because the restoration of core usage rights may be
necessary in order to be able to reboot the vPar, depending
on the vPars database definition and the allocation of usage
rights among the vPars. If this is a potential problem, the
restoration command must be performed before rebooting
any vPar within an nPar from which rights were seized.
-C <codeword>
GiCAP Codeword Application. This option allows the user
to apply a GiCAP codeword to a Group Manager system.
(This option cannot be used to apply an iCAP codeword
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