About Platform LSF License Scheduler

Platform LSF License Scheduler allows you to make policies that control the way software licenses are shared among different users in your organization. Platform LSF License Scheduler works with FLEXnet™ products to control and monitor license usage.

Distribute licenses intelligently

LSF License Scheduler intelligently distributes application licenses based on configurable policies to support

  • Fairshare of licenses

  • License preemption when license ownership is defined

  • Awareness of LAN and WAN service domains for fault tolerance and failover

  • Geographically distributed license servers

  • Interactive and batch jobs running in LSF clusters

Complete projects faster

LSF License Scheduler enables faster project completion by

  • Guaranteeing license availability for different projects and groups across physical locations

  • Ensuring access to licenses so that license owners get their fair share of usage

Maximize your investment

LSF License Scheduler maximizes your investment in expensive application licenses by

  • Optimizing usage of existing licenses

  • Easing the configuration of a dynamic shared pool of licenses. Instead of assigning arbitrary shares of licenses to everyone, you can give more licenses to larger or more important projects

  • Guaranteeing access to a minimum portion of licenses, no matter how heavily loaded the system is

  • Controlling the distribution and scheduling of licenses among jobs it manages, without preventing users from checking out licenses directly

  • Treating application licenses as another compute resource to be scheduled and managed