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A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
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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.
Each license server to be monitored must be identified in the Monitor configuration. This can be accomplished by using the Admin web page or by editing the vovlmd configuration file (licmon.swd/vovlmd/config.tcl). The web page maintains a separate configuration, so when using both methods, be careful to configure only one monitor for each tag to avoid configuration conflicts.
License utilization data that Monitor gathers primarily comes from license management tool's status command (e.g. the FlexNet Publisher lmstat command).
If denial monitoring has been enabled, historical denial reports will be available. Denials are obtained from the debug log of the license daemon and are filtered when parsed so that false denials are not loaded into the Monitor database and included in reports.
Companies with multiple sites may decide to implement Monitor at each site instead of monitoring remote license servers across the WAN. Monitor supports two methods of aggregating remote data to a "main" site.
For reporting purposes, users can be grouped to keep track of projects, departments, or other organizational units.
Monitor can also be configured to monitor hardware and process information. These functions are enabled by launching a monitoring agent on each of the hosts to be monitored.
For tools that are not licensed, usage tracking can still be achieved.
The wrapping technique for monitoring unlicensed tools uses Monitor's built-in license management capability. This basic capability is activated by first creating a served license, then instructing the tool to either count its run as a checkout, or to request a license before being checked out, via a script or binary wrapper. Monitoring occurs automatically.
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