You must configure a service domain for LSF License Scheduler. The service domain is a group of one or more FLEXnet license server hosts that serve licenses to LSF jobs. The service domain is used when you define a policy for sharing software licenses among your projects.
You can configure multiple service domains for LSF license Scheduler. The lsf.licensescheduler file comes with example configurations.
Keep the following requirements in mind:
If a FLEXnet license server host is not part of an LSF License Scheduler service domain, its licenses are not managed by License Scheduler (the license distribution policies you configure in LSF do not apply to these licenses and usage of these licenses does not influence LSF scheduling decisions).
License Scheduler assumes that any license in the service domain is available to any user who can receive a token from License Scheduler. Therefore, every user associated with a project specified in the distribution policy must meet the following requirements:
The user is able to make a network connection to every FLEXnet license server host in the service domain.
The user environment is configured with permissions to check out the license from every FLEXnet license server host in the service domain.
To use LSF License Scheduler tokens, a job submission must specify the -Lp (license project) option. The project must be defined for the requested feature in lsf.licensescheduler.
The ServiceDomain section in lsf.licensescheduler defines the LSF License Scheduler service domain.
In the simplest case, the service domain consists of one FLEXnet license server host. In this example, the service domain is named DesignCenterA, and consists of one FLEXnet license server host, hostA. FLEXnet uses port number 1700 on this host.
Choose a name for the service domain. You will use this name when you configure the distribution policies.
Specify all the FLEXnet license server hosts that make up the service domain. Specify the host name of each host and its FLEXnet port number.
Use one set of parentheses to enclose the entire list, and one more set around each host:
If you have only one host, use a double set of parentheses:
If you have redundant FLEXnet license server hosts, the parentheses are used to group the three hosts that share the same license.dat file:
If FLEXnet uses a port from the default range, you can specify the host name only: