For more details, consult the git history. For releases prior to 2009, the CVS version number is given in brackets.

Release 2011-08-01

Improvement handling of license trias

  • support the “from” mapping for license triads

    • uses the name of the first triad server only
    • the “from” name should be consistently in using long or short names

  • avoid re-shuffling server order when a triad is present

Minor output tweaks

  • Also emit note attribute for derived elements

More stringent option handling.

  • Emit usage instead of silently ignoring unknown command-line options.

SGE_CLUSTER_NAME parameter

  • Use config file parameter SGE_CLUSTER_NAME if it exists.

BUGFIX: qlicserver -C

  • qlicserver -C emitted complex=job instead of complex=0 for JOB complexes (reported on mailing list)

Release 2009-10-12

improved handling of timeouts

  • a command timeout will now also kill off the truant child process. This seems to work well in non-threaded mode, but still triggers an Alarm bug in threaded mode.

Inject processing instructions in the xml output

Eg, Inject <?qstat date="2009-10-13T09:20:54"?> and <?qstat args="-u * -xml -r -s prs"?> processing instructions in the xml output.

  • This allows tracking of the creation time without affecting the xml content and without relying on the file system.
  • It is also easily accessible in xslt.

Release 2009-10-02

bugfix for triads

  • Fixed problem with uninitialized lookup name when using server triads.
  • Fixed accidentally changing server string in parser.

misc cleanup

  • suppress dir prefix for cache files starting with “./”
  • don’t load Data::Dumper or File::Basename
  • add type=”overwrite” in example config file

supplementary script(s)

  • filter-accounting

Release 2009-05-26

fixed regression occurring with derived resources

  • derived resources were being summed too many times

Release 2009-04-28

fixed regression occurring with derived resources

  • missed one level of indirection when combining derived resources

Release 2009-04-21

GridEngine ‘JOB’ complex

  • Complexes with the type ‘job’ are not scaled by the number of slots.

bugfix for derived resource

  • Derived resources should now correctly respect the limits imposes on their subelements.

initial support for license server triads

  • Elements in the LM_LICENSE_FILE surrounded by brace brackets are taken literally and not threaded. This helps prevent querying a license triad three times and getting the wrong answer. Using brace brackets to group and identify triads is probably only meaningful within a config file and should not be attempted on the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable itself.

license remapping

  • With the from attribute, it is possible to map FlexLM licenses to different GridEngine resource names depending on the license server. This can be used, for example, to distinguish between identically named license features that have different qualities (eg, an old purchase license vs. a new lease license).

atomic write operation

  • Output files are written to a temporary file and unlink() is used to move them to the correct location. This avoids race conditions when the file is already being read by another process.

Release 2008-02-29 (version 1.44)

The command-line options and the configuration of the qlicserver have changed. The goal of the changes is to improve the ease of deployment and to increase the flexibility of the program in general. Editing the source code should no longer be required, but can be done if you either wish to operate without a configuration file, or would like to have some failsafe values hard-coded in. Although upgrading from a previous version should be straightforward, please do check if there is now a different way of doing things or if a particular option has been eliminated. The -h option usually provides a good starting point.

XML configuration file

  • A configuration file can be used for most of the license configuration and operation parameters – qlicserver.config

Resource limit files

  • Resource limits controllable from a file or a directory of files – qlicserver.limits

XML output format

  • With supplementary XSLT sheets it allows web-based monitoring of the resources.

Optional qhost/qstat output

  • These results of these queries can be used by processed by appropriate XSLT sheets (eg, within xmlqstat) to monitor the status of jobs and hosts.

Silent operation by default

  • The previous -q (quiet) option has been dropped in favour of explicitly requesting output with the output parameter.

Command-line parameters

  • Many program parameters can also be set in the configuration file or via the command-line.

More flexible daemon modes

  • It is now possible to operate like a true daemon (without a parent) or to monitor a particular process or process id.

Release 2007-05-07 (version 1.26)

Adjust for new qstat behaviour

  • now need qstat -u * to list all jobs

Added threaded server queries

  • Each server will be queried in parallel in a separate thread. If multiple ports are used on a particular server, they will be bundled together within a thread. The parallel query allows better response and stability when a slow or wonky server is in the system. Instead of relying on the FlexLM timeout parameter, ‘alarm’ is used to pull the plug on queries that are taking too long.

    NOTE: on some older systems (eg, perl 5.8.5 and SuSE 9.2) killing a thread within Perl appears to kill all threads. On these systems, the robustness will not be better (or worse) than before, but the query speed will still be improved. If only a single server is being used, no threads are used. If threads are a general problem on your system, the comments containing “UNTHREADED PERL” should help find the editing points in the code.

output tracked complexes

  • The tracked complexes are added into the qlicserver output for external access via the qlic utility. The “trackonly” entry of the config table controls this feature.

Release 2006-04-13 (version 1.16)

bugfix

  • handle unqualified hostnames in queue instances
  • catch fork failure in daemon mode

new feature

  • added -i option – to generate lookup table text based on license features queried from the license server

Release 2005-11-15 (version 1.14)

  • First official public release