Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) User's Guide for versions B.05.x

Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
Utilizing Temporary Capacity for iCOD Processors
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Utilizing Temporary Capacity for iCOD
Processors
Overview of Temporary Capacity
New for iCOD versions B.05.x is temporary capacity. Temporary
capacity is a HP software product that enables iCOD customers to
purchase (prepaid) processor activation rights, for their iCOD processors,
for a limited duration of time. Temporary capacity can be purchased in
units of 30 processor-days (43,200 processor-minutes).
NOTE Temporary capacity is supported on HP-UX 11i v1 only and is not
available on HP-UX 11.0.
You can activate and deactivate iCOD processors as you wish until the
activation time equals your prepaid temporary capacity duration. For
example, with one unit of temporary capacity, you can activate one
iCOD processor for 30 days or four iCOD processors for one hour a day
for 180 days (or any combination that totals 43,200 processor-minutes).
Processor activation time is managed in units of minutes; therefore, you
can use iCOD processors in units of minutes. For example, if you activate
an iCOD processor for only five minutes, and then deactivate it, you are
charged for only five minutes of activation time (out of your total of 30
processor-days). There can be a deviation of up to one minute in usage
tracking for each instance of activation and deactivation. This is because
the licensing clock runs in units of minutes.
If you activate processors beyond the prepaid temporary capacity
duration, then the activated iCOD processors are considered purchased,
as in today's iCOD model.
NOTE Temporary capacity credits are not transferable from one iCOD system
to another.