Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Welcome
Administering Platform LSF
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New and improved license optimization features
◆ FLEXnet Manager data collection—Integration with Macrovision®
FLEXnet Manager™ provides more detailed and accurate historical license usage
information for greater resource usage visibility across an entire organization.
◆ License usage reporting—New license usage cubes and reports that combine
workload and license usage information providing visibility about resource
utilization across an entire organization.
◆ Platform LSF License Scheduler integration—Track and report on job license
reservations allowing administrators to analyze the effectiveness of scheduling
policies and make the necessary adjustments if needed.
Improved
infrastructure
◆ Data collection reliability—Improved infrastructure reliability for data collection
to ensure no data is lost.
◆ Database reliability—Ease administration with the automatic requeuing and
recovery of scheduled tasks from database failures.
◆ Datamart builds—Schedule and build datamarts independent of cubes allowing
for greater flexibility to access data with third party tools.
◆ Database awareness—Scheduled tasks are now queued during detected database
maintenance periods to reduce unnecessary error returns.
New LSF Analytics
cubes
New Database ETL
flows
◆ WI_FLEXNET_DATA
◆ WI_JobDetailRes
◆ WI_HostStatus
◆ WI_JobDetailPendingReasons
◆ WI_LSBEvent
New feature New cube/dimension/measure
Analysis of LSF host batch status trends
◆ Hourly/Daily Host Status cube
Analysis of hourly BLD license usage
◆ Hourly BLD License Usage cube
Analysis of job slot utilization by host and
job slot usage by user/user group
◆ Hourly/Daily Job Slot Usage cube
Comparison of LSF job resource usage to
system resource usage
◆ Job CPU, mem, and swap measures
(added to Hardware cubes)
Analysis of workload data by LSF user
group, and hardware data by LSF host
group
◆ Hourly/Daily Hardware by Host Group
cube
◆ User group dimension
(added to Workload cube)
Analysis of FLEX license usage and other
events contained in the Macrovision
FLEXnet Manager server
◆ Hourly/Daily FLEX License cube
Analysis of workload license data obtained
from your LSF cluster and the Macrovision
FLEXnet Manager server
◆ Hourly/Daily Workload License cube
Collection of detailed pending reason data
by queue and host type
◆ N/A