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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.
Troubleshooting
Answers to common questions when using Monitor.
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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.
- 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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The images are retrieved from the readonly port (5556 by default) of the licmon server via HTTP.

Check that readonly port is enabled.
Check DNS/NIS setup and /etc/nsswitch.conf to be sure that the licmon hostname resolves.
Set env-var VOV_HOST_NAME in licmon.swd/setup.tcl to a value that resolves to the Monitor server machine.
If an IP address is the only way to access the machine from other hosts, add VOV_HOST_HTTP_NAME with the desired IP address to the setup.tcl file and perform a reread.
To make the change effective immediately, also enter the following commands at the shell. This sets the env-var in the running vovserver.
```
% vovproject enable licmon
% vovsh -x "vtk_server_setenv VOV_HOST_HTTP_NAME <VALUE>
```
If you are viewing Monitor over a port-forwarded tunnel through ssh, for example -L 5555:jaguar:5555, the host names differ on each end of the connection. The only way we know to deal with this is to make the Monitor host an alternate name for localhost. For the example, where the remote host is jaguar, your line in the hosts file would be similar to:
```
% 127.0.0.1 localhost jaguar
```