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

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This user’s guide is not designed to be read from front to back in its entirety. To get an
understanding of Instant Capacity versions 8.x, you should read this chapter, Chapter 1 - Instant
Capacity Overview, and Chapter 2 - Getting Started. After reading these chapters, you can utilize
the table of contents and index (in back) for specific topics of interest.
• About This Guide provides an introduction to this guide and locating Instant Capacity
information.
• Chapter 1, Instant Capacity Overview provides an overview of the Instant Capacity system.
• Chapter 2, Getting Started describes Instant Capacity requirements, concepts and methods,
and related software topics.
• Chapter 3, Installing and Uninstalling Instant Capacity Software contains procedures on how to
install and reinstall Instant Capacity software.
• Chapter 4, Using Instant Capacity to Manage Processing Capacity explains how to view system
status, apply codewords, activate and deactivate cores, assign and unassign cells, and HP’s
test activation policy for Instant Capacity.
• Chapter 5, Temporary Instant Capacity gives you details on what temporary capacity is, and
how to order and use it.
• Chapter 6, Instant Capacity Cell Board provides details on what Instant Capacity Cell Board
is, and how to order and use it.
• Chapter 7, Global Instant Capacity gives you details on Global Instant Capacity, describes the
concept of groups and shared resources, and how to order and use it.
• Chapter 8, Troubleshooting gives you step by step procedures to resolve problems with the
Instant Capacity software and other related configurations.
• Chapter 9, Frequently Asked Questions contains questions and answers to common Instant
Capacity software topics.
• Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages contains the actual HP-UX manpages for icap,
icapmanage, icapmodify, icapnotify, icapstatus, and icapd.
• Appendix A, Special Considerations describes assumed values in icapstatus output,
upgrading to Instant Capacity versions 8.x software, dual core support, creating and shutting
down partitions, implications of removing a cell board from an Instant Capacity system,
par commands with PC SMS, integration with virtual partitions and Psets, configuring
e-mail, testing e-mail transmission of an asset report, measurement software, and dynamic
processor resilience.
• Appendix B, Considerations for OpenVMS Systems contains information for running Instant
Capacity on OpenVMS systems.
• Glossary explains Instant Capacity systems and software terms.
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