Command Reference Guide

Platform LSF Command Reference 87
blcollect
license information collection daemon that collects license usage information
Synopsis
blcollect -c collector_name -m host_name [...] -p
license_scheduler_port [-i lmstat_interval | -D lmstat_path]
blcollect [-h | -V]
Description
Periodically collects license usage information from Macrovision FLEXnet. It
queries FLEXnet for license usage information from the FLEXnet
lmstat
command, and passes the information to the License Scheduler daemon (
bld). The
blcollect daemon improves performance by allowing you to distribute license
information queries on multiple hosts.
By default, license information is collected from FLEXnet on one host. Use
blcollect to distribute the license collection on multiple hosts.
For each service domain configuration in
lsf.licensescheduler, specify one
name for
blcollect to use. You can only specify one collector per service domain,
but you can specify one collector to serve multiple service domains. You can choose
any collector name you want, but must use that exact name when you run
blcollect.
Options
-c Required. Specify the collector name you set in lsf.licensescheduler. You must
use the collector name (
LIC_COLLECT) you define in the ServiceDomain section of
the configuration file.
-m Required. Specifies a space-separated list of hosts to which license information is
sent. The hosts do not need to be running License Scheduler or a FLEXnet. Use fully
qualified host names.
-p Required. You must specify the License Scheduler listening port, which is set in
lsf.licensescheduler and has a default value of 9581.
-i lmstat_interval Optional. The frequency in seconds of the calls that License Scheduler makes to
lmstat to collect license usage information from FLEXnet.
The default interval is 60 seconds.
-D lmstat_path Optional. Location of the FLEXnet command lmstat.
-h Prints command usage to stderr and exits.
-V Prints release version to stderr and exits.
See also
lsf.licensescheduler