In some situations, the Provisioning Manager issues operator messages that you can reply to. These situations can occur:
If the Provisioning Manager is running in confirmation mode, it checks the policy and the workload on the systems that are defined in the domain configuration to see whether additional capacity must be provisioned or deprovisioned. The Provisioning Manager proposes a change to the activation level and issues a message that asks whether you want to allow the proposed action. If you allow the action, the Provisioning Manager attempts to apply it to the CPC. If you deny the action, the CPC is not considered again for activation or deactivation for a certain time period. For more information how to configure this period see Table 17.
Until you respond, the Provisioning Manager continues to check the policy and workload to see whether the proposed action is still necessary. If the action is no longer necessary, the outstanding message is canceled. If another action is proposed instead, a new message is issued. While the Provisioning Manager is waiting for an answer, you use report commands to help you decide how to respond.
In some situations, there might be inconsistencies between the status of the Provisioning Manager and the CPC, for example, if an activation is triggered and the expected change in the activation level of the On/Off CoD record did not complete. In such situations, the Provisioning Manager issues a request message to the console asking how to resolve this situation. If the situation is resolved by any new information from the hardware, the request message is canceled.