Start the license daemons

FlexNet uses license daemons to manage permanent licenses.

This is a procedure that describes how to start the FlexNet license daemons.

  1. Log on to the license server host as LSF administrator.
    Important:

    Do not run lmgrd as root.

  2. If you have an old lsf_ld running, run lmdown to kill it.

    You can only have one lsf_ld daemon running on a host.

  3. Run the lmgrd command in LSF_SERVERDIR to start the license server daemon:
    lmgrd -c /usr/share/lsf/cluster_name/conf/license.dat -l /usr/share/lsf/cluster_name/log/license.log

    The -c option specifies the license file (or license file list, if you have multiple license server hosts).

    The -l option specifies the debug log path.
    Note:

    You should include LSF_SERVERDIR in your PATH environment variable. You may want to include the full command line in your system startup files on the license server host, so that lmgrd starts automatically during system reboot.