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License Management

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Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Reallocate licenses from idle jobs

Customer is facing a problem where a license is checked out by some user for their interactive job (and assigned to high priority license project), but the job session is idle (potentially, user went to lunch or left for the day). As a result, oth...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Functionality already exists

License Scheduler ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE + FAST_DISPATCH combination

We are troubled by the slow dispatch time of jobs, when the license scheduler is involved. Even after lengthy optimization, the dispatch time remains at 10-25 seconds, which is not good. (note that LMSTAT time and interval is just 3 seconds). If t...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

show license conflict for jobs

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage. add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Email notification when a job is suspended

Customer would like to receive notification when a job has been suspended and resumed either via a threshold or preemption/resumption by License Scheduler.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Display Dynamic Priority (for project group nodes)

Ability to display dynamic priority in License scheduler for project group nodes. Currently if priority is not set on a particular level there is no way to display the preemption order, which makes it difficult to explain the decision-making proce...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Fine grain control of LS cross-cluster preemption

Prevent preemption of the jobs in remote cluster if no job slots are available in the local cluster (and, consequently, the jobs cannot start because of the lack of hardware)
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

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