Unknown license requirements

Some applications require an initial feature license to start a job and additional feature or sub-feature licenses during job execution. The user who submits the job knows the main license feature needed to start the job, but might not know the additional feature names or the number of additional features required. This additional license feature not specified at job submission is considered unknown license use.

At any time, the user application can either make a request to LSF without requesting verification from License Scheduler, or it can bypass LSF entirely by sending the license request directly to the FlexNet license servers.

  1. The user application makes a request to LSF without requesting verification from License Scheduler.

  2. LSF gives authorization to the user application because the request did not specify the need for License Scheduler verification.

  3. The user application sends a request to FlexNet to check out a license.