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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.
Installation
There are four different types of installations available for Monitor.
Recommended Monitor Hardware Setup

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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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Recommended Monitor Hardware Setup

Depending on your system and the number of expected checkouts, your hardware setup will vary. There are many factors; please review the following information and if you have further questions, contact customer support for a comprehensive explanation.


Resource	Checkouts
Resource	100,000	1,000,000	>1,000,000
CPU (x86, e.g. Intel Xeon)	Dual Core Server Class	Quad Core Server Class	Quad Core Server Class
Memory	1 GB	8 GB	16 GB
Disk	5 GB	50 GB	200 GB
Server Working Directory	NFS or Local	NFS or Local	NFS or Local
Database	Local Disk	Local Disk	Local Disk

Expected System Environment

The Altair Accelerator products are built to run on a well-conditioned network. This outline gives an overview of what is expected to be in place.

All participating hosts are networked.
The host clocks are well-synchronized (e.g. via NTP).
Naming services are functional and fast
- User/Group account names and UIDs are uniform on all machines
- Resolution of hostname works (DNS or NIS).
- Reverse DNS lookup works (get host name from IP address).
There is a remote-shell capability for at least the product administrator's account to all participating machines. If not available, use the example .bat files as a guide to create a script, and place it in the appropriate directory. Example startup files are provided in $VOVDIR/etc/boot. Choose the one that best fits your scenario.
There are networked file systems on which to place shared files, so that they can be accessed from each machine, using a local path enabled by the NFS. The shared files include:
- Installed Altair Accelerator software, including at least one branch that must be writable (the local directory).
- The Server Working Directory (.swd)
- The users' home directories.
- Work area for each project.
Standard directories, binaries and libraries are available.
- /bin/sh, or /bin/bash on Linux
- /bin/csh, or /bin/tcsh
- /tmp exists
- /usr/tmp exists (not on Ubuntu by default)
- gcc libs are installed (libstdc++, libfcc_s)
If installing on a bare machine/VM the following dependencies need to installed:
- libXft-devel
- csh