Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD)

Instant Capacity On Demand (iCOD) version 6.0 provides customers the ability to increase system capacity on specified HP servers.

Summary of Change

With version 6.0 of the iCOD product, customers can increase system capacity on iCOD servers by performing the following process:

Purchase the component (for example, cell, memory, or processor).
Acquire the license codeword through the iCOD portal at the HP Web site:
http://www.hp.com/icod/portal
Apply the license codeword.
Activate the licensed component

The iCOD 6.0 product is installed as part of the OE and cannot be unselected. It does not require e-mail connectivity unless Temporary Capacity is being used.

The icodd manpage is introduced in this release as part of the iCOD software and it provides a complex-wide view of system processing capacity.

Impact

iCOD 6.0 is compatible with HP-UX 11i v2 and Itanium-based servers.

The iCOD daemon is installed and started on all potential iCOD systems and re-spawns itself if killed.

Machines Affected

The iCOD 6.0 is supported on these servers:

HP Integrity Superdome

HP Integrity rx7620 and rx8620

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no performance issues

Documentation

For more information, see the following iCOD manpages:

icod(5)
icodd(1M)
icod_modify(1M)
icod_notify(1M)
icod_stat(1M)

For further information, see the iCOD product Web page at http://www.hp.com/products1/unixservers/solutions/icod/index.html.

The following documents are available at http://www.docs.hp.com/:

Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) User's Guide for version B.06.00
Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) Release Notes for version B.06.00

Obsolescence

Not applicable.