Remove Licenses from a Preempted Job

The utility vovlmremove is used to release license resources from a suspended job. This utility is normally called automatically by the preemption code; it can also be called from the command line. The usage is simple: pass the VovId of the jobs from which to release the license resources, as shown below.

% vovlmremove 00012345 00012355

The selection of utility calls lmremove, rlmremove, or vlmremove, is related to the licenses that currently match to the job.


Utility	Related License
lmremove	FlexNet Publisher license
vlmremove	License emulation

Automatic Call of vovlmremove for Suspended Jobs

The utility vovlmremove is automatically called by vovserver when a preempted job is in the SUSPENDED state and matches some existing license handles. The utility attempts to free up the handles that match. This functionality is called with a frequency controlled by the parameter preemptionResourceRelease, which defaults to 90 seconds. This functionality can be disabled by setting this parameter to 0.

The utility vovlmremove is called during the following conditions:

A job has been preempted at least 60 seconds before and is currently in the SUSPENDED state (system controlled).
The job does not have the property DONOTLMREMOVE (user or system controlled).

vovlmremove

This utility removes all the license features associated with the given job.


vovlmremove: Usage Message

USAGE:
   % vovlmremove [OPTIONS] <jobId> ...

   This utility removes all the license features associated with the given job.
   It uses 'lmremove' for FLEXlm licenses.
   It uses 'rlmremove'  for licenses that use a tag containing RLM.
   It also works with Altair Engineering license emulation using 'vlmremove'.

   Due to FLEXlm behavior, it is possible and expected for lmremove to fail if
   it is called too early (typically 2 minutes after a checkout has occurred).
   In such cases, vovlmremove should be retried after adequate time has passed.

OPTIONS:
   -h      Print this help message.
   -v      Increase verbosity
   -prop   Add a property called "PREEMPT_LMREMOVE" to the job to describe what
           has been done.

EXAMPLES:
   % vovlmremove 00012345
   % vovlmremove 00012345 00022334
   % vovlmremove -v 00012345
   % vovlmremove -prop 00012345
   % vovlmremove -h

Note

vovlmremove uses lmremove for FlexNet Publisher licenses. It uses rlmremove for licenses that use a tag containing RLM. It also works with Altair Engineering license emulation using vlmremove.

Because of the FlexNet Publisher behavior, it is possible and normal for lmremove to fail if it is called too early (typically before 2 minutes after a checkout). In such case, you can try to run vovlmremove again a bit later.