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A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
Currently there are no Monitor tutorials available.
This manual describes the web user interface and provides instructions on common uses and best practices for users. It also provides the basic setup, installation and management practices for administrators. For both administrators and users, it functions as a getting started guide.
Altair Monitor is a software license tracking tool that reports current and historical license utilization. The license managers that Monitor supports includes FlexNet Publisher, Reprise, LUM, and many others. The primary user interface for accessing Monitor is a web interface.
This document describes how to configure and manage Altair Monitor.
This section explains how to set up a UNIX user's shell environment to have a proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
This section explains how to set up a Window user's command prompt environment to have the proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
Monitor documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
If a server crashes suddenly, VOV has the capability to start a replacement server on a pre-selected host. This capability requires that the pre-selected host is configured as a failover server.
Although the Monitor daemons are started automatically upon startup, there may be times where a daemon should be restarted. This section describes how to control the Monitor daemons.
Although the Monitor daemons are started automatically upon startup, there may be times where a daemon should be restarted. This section describes how to control the daemons from the command line (CLI).
Monitor stores historical information about jobs in a relational database. As of version 2015.09, the database is fully integrated and managed as part of Monitor. This section provides an overview of the components that run and manage the database.
Before troubleshooting Monitor, it is recommended that you make yourself familiar with its theory of operation.
Monitor is designed to be a highly efficient and scalable application. However, in larger enterprises, certain factors may affect the performance of the system as a whole.
With the command vovautostart, on vovserver startup, scripts can be specified to execute automatically.
Maintenance tasks are managed via the Configuration Information page. Jobs for these tasks are displayed in the periodic job list page.
This section describes the accuracy of the Monitor sampling methodology with respect to monitoring live servers for checkout and checkin information.
An Access Control List (ACL) is a list of permissions that are attached to an object. The list defines who can access the object (an agent) and what actions the agent can perform on the object.
A Monitor "widget" is a web page that generates various reports, but with no interface or visual aids. Widgets are called by other pages that provide these items, as well as details about the content provided by the widget, such as a title and description of the content.
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For a full list of supported license managers, see License Server Monitoring.