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Checking the Status of your Instant Capacity System

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You can use the icapstatus command to view the status of your Instant Capacity system. With no options, the icapstatus command provides the following information:

  • Version number of the Instant Capacity software

  • System identification information (system ID, serial number, product number, unique ID)

  • System-contact e-mail address

  • Instant Capacity From e-mail address

  • Asset reporting status (on or off)

  • Temporary capacity warning period (in days)

  • Exception status (indicates if complex is in an exception state)

  • If a member of a GiCAP group, membership information and borrow/loan status of usage rights

  • Local virtual partition status (if applicable):

    • Total number of assigned cores

    • Number of active assigned cores

    • Number of inactive assigned cores

    • Additional cores that can be assigned with current usage rights

    • Number of cores that could be assigned with additional usage rights

    • Number of cores that can be assigned with temporary capacity

    • Number of cores that are deconfigured or attached to inactive cells

  • Local nPartition status:

    • Total number of configured cores

    • Number of Intended Active cores

    • Number of active cores

    • Number of inactive cores

    • Additional cores that can be assigned with current usage rights

    • Number of cores that could be assigned with additional usage rights

    • Number of cores that can be assigned with temporary capacity

    • Number of cores that are deconfigured or attached to inactive cells

  • Instant Capacity resource summary:

    • Number of cells without usage rights

    • Number of inactive cells

    • Amount of memory without usage rights

    • Amount of inactive memory

    • Number of cores without usage rights

    • Number of inactive cores

    • Number of cores that must be deactivated (insufficient usage rights)

    • Temporary capacity available

  • Allocation of Instant Capacity Resources among the Hard Partitions:

    • nPar ID

    • Total Cores

    • Intended Active Cores

    • Actual Active Cores

    • Inactive Cores

    • Inactive Memory

    • Inactive Cells

    • Runs iCAP (indicates whether the hard partition contains compatible Instant Capacity software)

    • nPar Name

See “icapstatus (1M) Manpage” for details of the icapstatus command and its output.

Sample Session of icapstatus (on HP-UX)

/usr/sbin/icapstatus

Software version:          B.08.00.01
System ID:                 supericod
Serial number:             1234567890
Product number:            A6912A
Unique ID:                 fffff-fff-ffffff-ffff
System contact e-mail:     mjones@corp.com
From e-mail:               Set to the default ('adm')
Asset reporting:           on
Temporary capacity warning period:  15 days
Exception status:          No exception

Local nPartition Status
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Total number of configured cores:                                            8
Number of Intended Active cores:                                             7
Number of active cores:                                                      6
Number of inactive cores:                                                    2
Additional cores that can be assigned with current usage rights:             1
Number of cores that could be assigned with additional usage rights:         1
Number of cores that can be assigned with temporary capacity:                0
Number of cores that are deconfigured or attached to inactive cells: 0

Instant Capacity Resource Summary
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Number of cells without usage rights: 0
Number of inactive cells: 0
Amount of memory without usage rights: 0.0 GB
Amount of inactive memory: 0.0 GB
Number of cores without usage rights: 4
Number of inactive cores: 6
Number of cores that must be deactivated (insufficient usage rights): 0
Temporary capacity available: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes

Allocation of Instant Capacity Resources among the nPartitions
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           Intended Actual
nPar Total Active Active =======Inactive======= Runs
ID Cores Cores Cores Cores Memory Cells iCAP nPar Name
==== ===== ======== ====== ====================== ==== ======================
0      8      5        4     4     0.0 GB      0  Yes  Partition 0
1      8      7        6     2     0.0 GB      0  Yes  Partition 1 (local)
N/A    0    N/A      N/A   N/A     0.0 GB      0  N/A  Unassigned Cells