-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/13 00:38, David Bigagli wrote:
> The only way to get license information out of Flexlm is indeed > lmstat, FWIW this is just what Moab does, it runs a Perl script that polls a list of configured FlexLM servers and then converts those into GRES that jobs can request (either explicitly or via the "-l software=foo" request in Torque). I've not seen scalability issues, but I've seen plenty of issues where you would be very hard pressed (even with information from the ISV) about how many tokens of what name will be requested for a particular configuration. Also if you've need to reserve licenses for particular usernames (say because the software is dedicated to their project) then those tokens will appear as in-use, even if they're not. As Gary and David have said, FlexLM is mainly a method for making you buy more licenses than you need (or to tell your users to use something else, depending on how BOFH'ish you are feeling and how big your budget is). All the best, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHTZHUACgkQO2KABBYQAh/DxgCeOfkPu/rlWMXN+MeasyR6xS7M uTIAn1BDEqfcVS8K4Xc3jIDMqtoqSbpH =CmZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
