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Getting Started Guide
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.
Basic Operations and Setup (Admin Only)
This section is organized into a series of instructions designed to guide you through the beginning steps of setting up your Monitor system.
Add and Configure an Agent

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Getting Started Guide
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.
- Document Organization
  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.
- Theory of Operation
  Monitor monitors tools with licenses using live sampling and debug logs for denials, and it monitors tools with no licenses using wrapper scrips and a monitoring agent.
- Components
  All Altair Accelerator software products are based on a client/server architecture and have three main components: a server, daemons and taskers.
- Installation
  There are four different types of installations available for Monitor.
- First Steps
  We suggest as first steps that you check Monitor to be sure it’s running properly and then perform a few basic tasks to get a feel for the system.
- Common Questions and Basic Uses
  This section explains how to use Monitor to answer common questions. In most cases, there isn’t one answer to a question. Some investigation is required.
- Using the Graphical User Interface
  Monitor has many views and reports, and this section details all of them. It is designed as a reference, so when you generate a report, you will understand all its parameters.
- Basic Operations and Setup (Admin Only)
  This section is organized into a series of instructions designed to guide you through the beginning steps of setting up your Monitor system.
- Troubleshooting
  Answers to common questions when using Monitor.
Altair Monitor User 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.
Altair Monitor Administrator Guide

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Add and Configure an Agent

Monitor can be configured to monitor hardware and process information if agents are configured on the machines you wish to monitor. These agents will send the following machine information to Monitor:

CPU utilization
File system utilization
Process listing
Network traffic levels (Linux only)
Machine load (UNIX only)

Agents can be configured and controlled remotely from the Monitor server if certain conditions are met. Otherwise, agents can be configured locally on each machine monitored. In most cases, you will configure an agent to run remotely.

Agent Configuration Requirements

To remotely create and control of agents, the following must be true:

An Altair Accelerator installation must be available on the machine monitored (either network-based or local).
An RSH, SSH, or vovtsd connection must be allowed between the Monitor server and the host to be monitored without a password prompt appearing. The vovtsd daemon is provided by Altair Accelerator and provides secure connection capabilities on any configurable port for starting and stopping agents remotely. This daemon is especially useful for Windows, which do not provide built-in remote connectivity capabilities.

For networks where home directories are stored remotely and available to all machines via NFS, Monitor provides a utility called vovsshsetup to setup SSH keys. The keys allow SSH to connect to a remote machine without prompting for a password. After running the utility, one manual connection will need to be performed for each of the hosts so that its host key is added to the known_hosts file. Each host also must be able to mount the filesystem containing the Monitor software installation.