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

Figure 1-1 Instant Capacity System Elements
Other
System Management
Commands
iCAP DB
System
Compliance
Codeword
Generation
Asset
Report
Record Purchase
Status and
Control
Status and
Control
Status and
Control
Authorization
Purchase
Codeword
Request
Notification
Cores, Cells
and Memory
HP Sales
Rep.
iCAP Admin
System
iCAP
Software
iCAP Web
Portal
Customer
Instant Capacity System Hardware
An Instant Capacity system’s hardware is made up of the following components:
• Cell boards
• Processors which contain cores
• Memory
Every Instant Capacity system contains a combination of the above components that are either
purchased with usage rights (and available for activation) or purchased without usage rights
(must be inactive). Note that while you purchase processors, the Instant Capacity software
monitors and manages cores.
Instant Capacity Software
The Instant Capacity software provides the means to:
• Increase or decrease (load balance) system processing capacity (icapmodify command)
• View status and configuration of the system components (icapstatus command)
• Administer system identification and notification information (icapmodify command)
• Send system asset reports through encrypted e-mail to HP, if configured (icapd daemon
on HP-UX, ICAP_SERVER process on OpenVMS)
• Send configuration change notification, through encrypted e-mail, to the specified
system-contact
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