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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.
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.
Historical Reports
Generate and view three types of reports.
Batch Reporting
Batch reporting is available through the ftlm_batch_report command. Batch reporting is useful when the report period is long or there is a desire to have more than one report shown on the web page.

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A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
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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.
  - Home Page
    Primary page for viewing the status of your licenses and views.
  - Current Tab
    A summary of features with active checkouts.
  - Historical Reports
    Generate and view three types of reports.
    - Usage Reports
      License utilization report.
    - Denial Reports
      Monitor tracks denials, as reported by the license manager. A denial is essentially a license request, which is denied.
    - Batch Reporting
      Batch reporting is available through the ftlm_batch_report command. Batch reporting is useful when the report period is long or there is a desire to have more than one report shown on the web page.
  - Views Tab
    Create tables and reports that show the items you’re interested in viewing and tracking.
  - Network Tab
    Displays information on hosts and file systems on which agents are running.
  - Admin Tab (Admin Only)
    Manage and monitor agents and users, and configure reports.
  - Control Center
    Manage licenses on remote servers.
- 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

Batch Reporting

Batch reporting is available through the ftlm_batch_report command. Batch reporting is useful when the report period is long or there is a desire to have more than one report shown on the web page.

Batch reports are persistent and static: the data they display is accurate as of the time they are built, and remain available until the report files are deleted from the disk.

You can create a batch report by either specifying a custom report or by specifying the types of tables, charts, and plots you wish to enable.

Figure 1. Create a Batch Report - Admin View

You may use batch reporting to configure a complex report with HTML format which includes the corresponding ftlm_batch_report commands, then incorporate such command (with proper modification) in a cron job (UNIX) to automate and schedule the report generation.

Note: For ftlm_batch_report to be able to extract static images, the machine that runs the utility must have access to Node v14 or higher.