Assumed Values in icapstatus

The icapstatus command may make assumptions on the number of active cores and amount of active memory, depending on certain system conditions. If values are assumed, the icapstatus command’s output contains an asterisk next to the appropriate field.

Assumed Processor Values

Occasionally, the output of the icapstatus command may contain an asterisk next to the value in the Actual Active Cores field (under the section Allocation of Instant Capacity Resources among the nPartitions). The asterisk appears in the output whenever a non-local partition appears to be active, but the icapd daemon is not reporting system information. Some examples that can cause this situation include:

The absence of Instant Capacity versions 8.x software on a non-local partition
No space left in /var on the non-local partition prevents icapd from communicating system information
A non-local partition was shut down for an extended period of time with shutdown or reboot, and the -R -H options were not used (which brings the cells to an inactive state)
A non-local partition is running an operating system that is not HP-UX or OpenVMS (for example, MS Windows or Linux)

In the above cases, the Instant Capacity software on other partitions assumes that all cores in the non-local partition are active. In addition to the asterisks in the output of icapstatus, this can affect the following:

Temporary capacity consumption
The ability to change the complex with parmodify, parmgr, or parcreate commands
Core activation with the icapmodify command
The system may not be in compliance




	NOTE: The number of active cores is always known for a local partition.

If a non-local partition appears to be inactive, the number of active cores reported by the icapstatus command is zero. For example, if the hardware for a non-local partition is inactive, icapstatus considers the partition as inactive and reports the number of active cores as zero.

Assumed Memory Values

When a cell board is powered off, no matter if the cell is in the local partition or in a non-local partition, the amount of inactive memory is assumed to be 2 GB and is reported as such by the icapstatus command. If the amount of memory without usage rights configured for the cell exceeds 2 GB and the cell is powered down and remains assigned to the partition, the system will go out of compliance.

An asterisk may appear next to the value of the Inactive Memory field in the icapstatus output, section Allocation of Instant Capacity Resources among the nPartitions.

Assumed Values in icapstatus

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