Hello,
We are testing Draft for our dailies but it seems that when Draft checks the license against our license server, there is a delay of ~1min
our license server is located in an Amazon EC2 instance
How can we speed up the license check?
Thanks!
Hmmm, I’m not sure if there’s much we could do about that; I believe our license checking in Draft is just a simple call to a server, which should return basically as soon as the server is contacted.
Do you have multiple license servers configured? I’m wondering if internally the Flex library is trying to contact them one at a time, and it needs to wait for a timeout (usually ~30-60 secs) before moving on and trying the next server. Is there anything printed to stdout or stderr when Draft is doing a checkout?
Either way, I’ll point our Draft developer to this thread in case she has any additional insight 
Hi there,
Can you also tell us which version of Draft you are using? You can find the version in any Draft job report right after the line: “Checking for a license…”.
Thanks!
Julie
Hi!
Our Draft version is 1.6.0.5
This is the log of the slave with one of our Draft Jobs
2016-07-06 17:24:22: 0: INFO: Process is now running
2016-07-06 17:24:22: 0: STDOUT: Checking for a license…
2016-07-06 17:25:44: 0: STDOUT: Draft 1.6.0.5
2016-07-06 17:25:44: 0: STDOUT: Command line args:
2016-07-06 17:25:44: 0: STDOUT: username=kimda
…
We don’t have any other License Server running, just one in a EC2 instance in Amazon.
Hi Kim,
Actually, the issue might be related to the fact that Draft is making a call (internally) to deadlinecommand when it’s checking out a license. So this can be related to your other forum post forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/vie … 10&t=14523.
If the new Deadline build does not reduce the delay when checking out a Draft license, then we’ll dig into this further.
Thanks!
Julie