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

icapd(1M)

NAME

icapd -- Instant Capacity (iCAP) daemon.

SYNOPSIS

icapd

DESCRIPTION

icapd (formerly icodd) is installed and started as part of the Instant Capacity software on all

potential iCAP systems, and re-spawns itself if killed. Note that other Instant Capacity commands

fail if this daemon is not running. The operations this daemon performs are vital in keeping the

complex-wide view of the Instant Capacity state current. The following entry is added to

/etc/inittab in order to have icapd start and re-spawn itself:

icap:23456:respawn:/usr/lbin/icapd # Instant Capacity daemon

This daemon is not started on hardware that is not supported under the Instant Capacity program.

If icapd is installed and running on a system with Instant Capacity components present (cores,

cells, or memory), it sends daily asset report e-mail to HP (if so configured), tracks temporary

capacity, sends exception notifications, and maintains a healthy Instant Capacity state.

For more information about the functions that icapd performs for Instant Capacity systems,

view the Instant Capacity User's Guide located at /usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf.

The icapd daemon reports errors via syslog (see syslog(3C)). Exception notification e-mail is

sent to root and to the system contact e-mail address (configured via the icapmodify command

(see icapmodify(1M)).

The icapd daemon performs periodic operations based on the time of day. The icapd daemon

is spawned by init and gets its timezone specification from the /etc/default/tz file. By

default the timezone specified in /etc/default/tz is EST5EDT. You can specify which timezone

the icapd daemon uses to interpret its current time by modifying the /etc/default/tz file.

Refer to environ(5) for details of the TZ format. A restart of the icapd daemon is required before

the new timezone value takes effect (that is, kill the /usr/lbin/icapd process).

AUTHOR

icapd was developed by HP.