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

-d, -s, and -a options, which is to activate or deactivate
cores instantly. This option is not supported within a
virtual partition. NOTE: deferred operations are not
cumulative. If there is a pending deferred operation, a
subsequent activation or deactivation request (-s, -a, or
-d), deferred or not, cancels the pending deferred request
and resets the values for intended active and actual
active based on the request and the current value for
actual active.
-f <from_email_address>
Set Instant Capacity “from” e-mail address. Causes all
Instant Capacity e-mail correspondence from this system
to appear to be sent from from_email_address.
Specifying an empty string ("") returns to default behavior,
which is to send from the adm user on the local system.
The address specified must be DNS resolvable by HP.
-i <system_id>
Set system identifier used during asset reporting. The
default setting for the system identifier is the hostname of
the Instant Capacity system. This value can be returned to
the default setting by specifying an empty string (""). The
system identifier is a string that users specify to help track
and distinguish their systems.
-r
Reconcile. Activate or deactivate cores (subject to
compliance limits) to bring the system to a state where the
intended active number of cores are active.
-w <warning days> Set temporary capacity warning period to desired
number of days. If not specified, the default warning period
is 15 days. The Instant Capacity software calculates when
the temporary capacity will expire based on the
current consumption rate. When the temporary
capacity balance is projected to be depleted within the
warning period, a warning message is sent by e-mail to
the system-contact if specified, and root. Note that if
temporary capacity is depleted and you continue to
have more active cores than core usage rights across the
complex, on the next reboot of any partition in the complex
the software will automatically deactivate one or more
cores in order to bring the complex into a more compliant
state. Instant Capacity software will deactivate as many
cores as is necessary to either stop consumption of
temporary capacity or to bring the partition to the
minimum number of required active cores.
-s <n>
Sets the number of active cores and the number of intended
active cores to n, as long as the end result does not take
the complex out of compliance. Depending on the value
of n, this option works exactly as the -a option (if n is
greater than the current number of active cores), or exactly
as the -d option (if n is less than the current number of
active cores). Specifying a value of n less than the number
of cells in a partition will fail.
icapmodify will fail if it is unable to set the value exactly
as requested. However, a failed request may still make a
partial change to the number of intended active cores.
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