6.3.1.1 EXPRESS License Pools

RLM has the concept of an EXPRESS License Pool. If a license pool is marked as EXPRESS (the default), then queued requests which can be satisfied immediately are granted independent of whether other requests are ahead in the queue. If EXPRESS is turned off, then a queued request will always be placed at the end of the queue if there is a waiting request. For more information on how to set up license pools as EXPRESS, see the EXPRESS option in The ISV Options File.

Since RLM applications queue at all license servers, a request for, say, 5 licenses, might take a long time to grant. In the meantime, up to 4 licenses could be available which could be granted to other applications which need only one license each. By setting some license queues to EXPRESS and turning off EXPRESS on others, you can bias the operation of different license servers to handle single or multiple license requests more favorably.