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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.
Usage Reports
License utilization report.
Heatmaps
A report that shows the time period specified, represented as a 24x7 clock view.

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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.
      - Daily Feature Statistics
        An overview of availability and utilization statistics for a time frame.
      - Feature Daily Plots
        A graph of the metrics shown on the Feature Statistics page for a specific tag/feature combination.
      - Feature Efficiency Statistics
        A table showing the metrics associated with efficient licenses usage.
      - Feature Efficiency Histogram
        A graph that shows license availability. It can show both licensing bottlenecks and waste.
      - Feature Detailed Plots
        A group of graphs, which shows availability and utilization statistics.
      - Heatmaps
        A report that shows the time period specified, represented as a 24x7 clock view.
      - Checkout Statistics
        A report that can show pin-pointed data about license utilization.
      - Checkout Details
        A report that shows the actual checkouts shown in the Statistics view.
      - Duration Histogram
        A graph that shows the distribution of checkouts based on duration.
      - Usage Comparison Plot
        The Usage Comparison Plot page is a graphical accompaniment to the checkout statistics page, which allows for complex report-by and filter options.
      - Usage Trends
        The Usage Trends page provides the ability to report on one or more features over a specified time frame while breaking the time frame into smaller segments, each with their own average and peak usage statistics.
    - 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

Heatmaps

A report that shows the time period specified, represented as a 24x7 clock view.

The table provides a 24-hour colored clock view of license activity for each day. A heatmap is a unique report for visualizing license activity.

For each hour in the view, a color-coded box represents the amount of activity for the license feature. The heatmap report page contains four heatmaps: one for peak concurrent usage, one for checkouts, one for check-ins and one for denials.

Dark Blue: No activity
Green: Medium activity
Orange: Medium high
Red: High activity