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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.
Home Page
Primary page for viewing the status of your licenses and views.

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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.
    - Alerts
      Monitor includes an alert system that provides visibility to anomalies that occur within the licensing environment or the Monitor product itself.
    - Links
      By default, no links will show until you have configured them. You can add links to your Home tab to more efficiently manage your system, and we recommend you do that once you have configured the system.
  - 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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Home Page

Primary page for viewing the status of your licenses and views.

The Monitor home page is intended to provide a current, high-level overview of the license environment being monitored. This includes a section for some basic utilization and wait time statistics, a customized view section, and a section that shows the status of the most active license servers. Clicking on the headers takes you to each header's respective page.

Current Status

The first section on the home page shows some high-level utilization and wait time statistics for the moment of time at which the home page was loaded. The statistics are divided into two categories: "Current Utilization" and "Current Wait":

Figure 1. Home Page: Statistics Section

Each category is further broken down into a collection of top metrics. This allows you to see the most used features, the most active users, and the features that are the largest bottlenecks. The features and users that show up in these sections are links, which can be clicked on to obtain details about the statistic.

My View Section

The My View section shows the configured default view for the current authenticated user. A view is a pre-configured collection of tag and/or feature filters that are presented in a table for convenience. Views can be created and/or edited in the Views tab. Clicking on My View navigates to this page.

License Server Section

The final section shown on the home page is the license servers section. This section shows the most active license servers, their status, and some basic statistics about the server such as the number of features served by the server, the number of checkouts that are currently active on the server, and the last time the server was sampled by Monitor for data collection.

Figure 2. License Servers