Summary

Using the RESERVE keyword with multiple licensing pools in the license file.

Synopsis

When there is more than one licensing pool for a given feature, such as having multiple INCREMENT lines, some confusion can occur when customers make use of the RESERVATION keyword within their options file. It is often reported that they are granted double the available reservations, and this is reported in the lmstat output.

Discussion

If a license file similar to the one below...

INCREMENT group_lic flexera 1.0 28-mar-2011 12 SIGN=...
INCREMENT group_lic flexera 2.9 28-jun-2011 5 SIGN=...

Two license pools will be created for the licensed feature, group_lic. One for version 1.0 and one for version 2.9. If an options file is used with this license file and the RESERVATION option is set, as follows:

GROUP FLEXERA_USERS user1 user2 user3
RESERVE 2 group_lic GROUP FLEXERA-USERS

Then this will effectively reserve 2 licenses from the first license pool (v1.0) and 2 licenses from the second license pool (v2.9)