Apparatus for setting used license of executing job into unused license state and allocating the set unused license to a to be executed job based on priority

• US 7,979,864 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2005
• Issued: 07/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Meguro, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): To; Jennifer N
• Application Number:
  US11/285,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20070039003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,058 Days
• Field of Search: 718/102, 718/103, 718/104, 705/59, 709223-226, 717/163
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/105 Arrangements for software license management or administration, e.g. for managing licenses at corporate level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request

Abstract

A job management apparatus includes a detection section that detects the number of unused licenses, a determination section that determines whether or not the number of unused licenses is sufficient to cover the number of licenses necessary for execution of a first job to be executed, and a job control section that sets a used license that is used by a second job into an unused state, in which a priority rank assigned to the second job is lower than a priority rank assigned to the first job, when the determination section determines that the number of unused licenses is not sufficient to cover the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job, and allocates the used license set into the unused state to the first job.

Claims

1. A job management apparatus comprising:

a computer processor,

wherein the computer processor is programmed to function as;

a detection section that detects a number of unused licenses;

a determination section that determines whether or not the number of unused licenses detected by the detection section is sufficient to cover a number of licenses necessary for execution of a first job to be executed, wherein the first job includes a number of central processing units (CPUs) to execute the first job, a priority rank assigned to the first job, and a type of job assigned to the first job, the type of the first job includes any one of a static analysis job and a dynamic analysis job, wherein the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job being determined based on the number of CPUs to execute the first job and the type of the first job;

a job control section that sets a used license that is used by a second job into an unused state, in which a priority rank assigned to the second job is lower than the priority rank assigned to the first job, when the determination section determines that the number of unused licenses is not sufficient to cover the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job to be executed, said job control section allocates the used license being set into the unused state from the second job to the first job; and

wherein, when the first job is kept executed continuously for a predetermined time period or more, the job control section suspends execution of the first job, changes the predetermined priority rank assigned to the first job to a lower priority rank, sets the first job into an execution waiting state, and allows another job to execute.

2. The job management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the job control section suspends execution of the second job to set the used license into the unused state.

3. The job management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the job control section restarts execution of the second job after execution of the first job is completed.

4. The job management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when number of CPUs to execute the second job is assigned to the second job and the number of CPUs to execute the second job is plural, the job control section sets the used license into the unused state by reducing the number of CPUs to execute the second job.

5. The job management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the job control section sets at least one additional used license used by the second job into the unused state so that a number of used licenses set into the unused state is equal to the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job.

6. A job management method comprising:

detecting a number of unused licenses;

determining whether or not the number of unused licenses detected by the detecting is sufficient to cover a number of licenses necessary for execution of a first job to be executed, wherein the first job includes a number of central processing units (CPUs) to execute the first job, a priority rank assigned to the first job, and a type of job being assigned to the first job, the type of the first job includes any one of a static analysis job and a dynamic analysis job, wherein the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job being determined based on the number of CPUs to execute the first job and the type of the first job;

setting a used license that is used by a second job into an unused state, in which a priority rank assigned to the second job is lower than the priority rank assigned to the first job, when the determining determines that the number of unused licenses is not sufficient to cover the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job, allocating the used license being set into the unused state from the second job to the first job; and

wherein, when the first job is kept executed continuously for a predetermined time period or more, suspending execution of the first job, changing the predetermined priority rank assigned to the first job to a lower priority rank, setting the first job into an execution waiting state, and allowing another job to execute.

7. The job management method according to claim 6, wherein the setting suspends execution of the second job to set the used license into the unused state.

8. The job management method according to claim 7, wherein the setting restarts execution of the second job after execution of the first job is completed.

9. The job management method according to claim 6, wherein when a number of CPUs of to execute the second job is assigned to the second job and the number of CPUs to execute the second job is plural, the setting sets the used license into the unused state by reducing the number of CPUs to execute the second job.

10. The job management method according to claim 6, wherein the setting sets at least one additional used license used by the second job into the unused state so that a number of used licenses set into the unused state is equal to the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job.

11. A non-transitory storage medium that has stored therein, readable by a computer, a job management program that causes the computer to execute a process comprising:

detecting a number of unused licenses;

determining whether or not the number of unused licenses detected by the detecting is sufficient to cover a number of licenses necessary for execution of a first job to be executed, wherein the first job includes a number of central processing units (CPUs) to execute the first job, a priority rank assigned to the first job, and a type of job being assigned to the first job, the type of the first job includes any one of a static analysis job and a dynamic analysis job, wherein the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job being determined based on the number of CPUs to execute the first job and the type of the first job;

setting a used license that is used by a second job into an unused state, in which a priority rank assigned to the second job is lower than the priority rank assigned to the first job, when the determining determines that the number of unused licenses is not sufficient to cover the number of licenses necessary for execution of the first job, allocating the used license being set into the unused state from the second job to the first job; and

wherein, when the first job is kept executed continuously for a predetermined time period or more, suspending execution of the first job, changing the predetermined priority rank assigned to the first job to a lower priority rank, setting the first job into an execution waiting state, and allowing another job to execute.

12. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the setting suspends execution of the second job to set the used license into the unused state.

13. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 12, wherein the setting restarts execution of the second job after execution of the first job is completed.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 11, wherein when a number of CPUs to execute the second job is assigned to the second job and the number of CPUs to execute the second job is plural, the setting sets the used license into the unused state by reducing the number of CPUs to execute the second job.