Not all hosts in the cluster need to be licensed for the same set of LSF products. Partial licensing allows you to run some LSF products on specific hosts in the cluster, instead of licensing all the hosts in the cluster.
For example, only some of your hosts might need the license for Platform Make.
Partial licensing allows you to purchase only as many licenses as you need, rather than licensing the entire cluster for products that are only needed by a few hosts. You can save money by distributing your licenses efficiently.
When you configure partial licensing and define the licenses for each host, you also define the order in which your licenses are given out to hosts.
Use the lshosts -l command to view what products are licensed for any host in the cluster.
In this example, hostA is licensed for LSF_Base and LSF_Manager, which means the host can run Platform LSF only.
lshosts -l hostAHOST_NAME: hostAtype model cpuf ncpus ndisks maxmem maxswp maxtmp rexpri server nprocs ncores nthreadsLINUX86 PC6000 116.1 2 1 2016M 1983M 72917M 0 Yes 1 1 2RESOURCES: Not definedRUN_WINDOWS: (always open)Licenses enabled: (LSF_Base LSF_Manager)LOAD_THRESHOLDS:r15s r1m r15m ut pg io ls it tmp swp mem tmp2 nio console- 3.5 - - - - - - - - - - - 0.0