Start License Scheduler

About this task

You can configure LSF to start the License Scheduler daemon (bld) on the License Scheduler host as well as on candidate License Scheduler hosts that can take over license distribution in the case of a network failure. The LSF LIM daemon starts bld automatically.

Procedure

Log on as the primary LSF administrator.
Set your LSF environment:
- For csh or tcsh:
% source LSF_TOP/conf/cshrc.lsf
- For sh, ksh, or bash:
  
  $ . LSF_TOP/conf/profile.lsf
In LSF_CONFDIR/lsf.conf, specify a space-separated list of hosts for the LSF_LIC_SCHED_HOSTS parameters:
LSF_LIC_SCHED_HOSTS="hostname_1 hostname_2 ... hostname_n"

Where:

hostname_1, hostname_2, hostname_n are hosts on which the LSF LIM daemon starts the License Scheduler daemon. The order of the host names is ignored.

Note: Set the LSF_LIC_SCHED_HOSTS parameter to the same list of candidate hosts you used in the lsf.licensescheduler HOSTS parameter. The LSF_LIC_SCHED_HOSTS parameter is not used in any other function.
Run lsadmin reconfig to reconfigure the LIM.
Use ps -ef to make sure that bld is running on the candidate hosts.
Run badmin mbdrestart to restart mbatchd.
If you specified a LIC_COLLECTOR name in your service domains, start each license collector manually:
blcollect -m "host_list" -p lic_scheduler_port -c lic_collector_name

Where:
- host_list
  
  Specifies a space-separated list of License Scheduler candidate hosts to which license information is sent. Use fully qualified host names.
- lic_scheduler_port
  
  Corresponds to the License Scheduler listening port, which is set in lsf.licensescheduler.
- lic_collector_name
  
  Specifies the name of the license collector you set for LIC_COLLECTOR in the service domain section of lsf.licensescheduler.
  
  For example:
  
  blcollect -m "hostD.designcenter_b.com hostA.designcenter_a.com" -p 9581 -c CenterB
  
  A file named collectors/CenterB is created in your LSF_WORKDIR.
  
  Note:
  If you do not specify a license collector name in a License Scheduler service domain, the master bld host starts a default blcollect.