How reconfiguring the cluster affects licenses

If the license server goes down, LSF can continue to operate for a period of time until it attempts to renew licenses.

Reconfiguring causes LSF to renew licenses. If no license server is available, LSF does not reconfigure the system because the system would lose all its licenses and stop working.

If you have multiple license servers, reconfiguration proceeds provided LSF can contact at least one license server. In this case, LSF still loses the licenses on servers that are down, so LSF may have fewer licenses available after reconfiguration.