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

• Monitor and report system compliance (icapd daemon on HP-UX, ICAP_SERVER process
on OpenVMS)
• Manage Global Instant Capacity groups (icapmanage command)
See “Instant Capacity HP-UX Manpages” (page 135) for details of these commands on HP-UX.
See “DCL Commands” (page 196) for the OpenVMS equivalents of these commands.
Utility Pricing Solutions Portal
The Utility Pricing Solutions (or Instant Capacity) portal is located at the HP web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/icap/portal
After a component without usage rights is purchased, HP sends you a letter containing instructions
on how to obtain a Right to Use (RTU) codeword from the Utility Pricing Solutions portal.
Instant Capacity Administration System
If asset reporting is configured, the icapd daemon sends asset reports, as encrypted e-mail
messages, to the Instant Capacity Administration System, which saves information in the Instant
Capacity database.
Instant Capacity Database
The Instant Capacity database is a repository on an HP server that tracks system compliance and
provides the information for codeword generation.
Other System Management Commands
Other system management commands (for example, vparmodify, parCLI and parMgr on HP-UX)
provide an interface to modify system configuration which affects Instant Capacity contractual
compliance.
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