The License Manager Daemon

The license manager daemon starts and restarts the vendor daemons, which grant or deny licenses to the licensed software. When a user starts an application, the application looks at the elementary license file for the name of the license server and contacts the license manager daemon (lmgrd.ste) on that server. If a license token is available, the user is granted the use of the application. If a license token exists but is not currently available (for example, if other users have checked out all the license tokens), the user will be put into a queue.

Sun uses the lmgrd.ste license manager daemon, which is identical to FLEXlm's lmgrd license manager daemon.