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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.
Control Center
Manage licenses on remote servers.

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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.
  - 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

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Control Center

Manage licenses on remote servers.

The Control Center tab is only available to administrators. It requires an agent program to run on each license server host to be managed. The agent is responsible for running supported administration commands, such as starting and stopping a license daemon, and transmitting files to the server.

License files can be fetched from a license server, edited within the web interface and then published back to the license server. New license files can be uploaded and distributed to remote license manager directories. New license server directories can also be created from scratch.

The Control Center tab has four different options for making these adjustments:

Server Overview: This shows a list of the license server tags that have been configured for license management tasks. This enables you to start, stop and reread agents.
Server & File Control: This enables you to configure license management, work with licensing files, and control license servers. Only the Monitor owner-user has permission to add additional managers.
Agent Status: This shows the running remote agents, which are required for management tasks and provides more details on the connected agents.
Setup: This enables you to setup the Control Center for use. Use this page when new license servers are added or to create a new license server from scratch.

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