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Altair Monitor Administrator Guide
Daemon Operation
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.

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Altair Monitor Administrator Guide
- Altair Monitor Overview
  This document describes how to configure and manage Altair Monitor.
- Enable CLI Access on UNIX
  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.
- Enable CLI Access on Windows
  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.
- Use Monitor Help
  Monitor documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- Server Operation
- Failover Server Candidates
  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.
- Daemon Operation
  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.
- Daemon Manager Utility
  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).
- Database
  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.
- Configuring Monitoring
- License Server Management
- Other Configurations
- Command Line Operations
- Reference

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Daemon Operation

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.

Web-based Operation

Daemons can be controlled from the web interface by visiting the Daemons administration page:

Figure 1. Daemons

Control daemons by clicking the desired action icon (start or stop). The configuration files for each daemon can also be viewed from this page.

The vovtriggerd Daemon

This particular daemon should not be running under normal circumstances. When running, Monitor enters a debugging mode in which the output of each sampling job run is archived in the licmon.swd/logs/parser directory so that the history can be "played back" by Altair support if needed. Such cases would be when there is an intermittent issue that is difficult to reproduce but happens over time. Monitor can potentially use large amounts of disk space when running in this mode, so make sure that the vovtriggerd daemon is running only when needed.