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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.
Network Tab
Displays information on hosts and file systems on which agents are running.
Machine Load Monitoring
The Machine Load page provides historical reporting capability for viewing the utilization of the machines being monitored over a specified time period.

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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.
    - Host Monitoring
      The Hosts List page shows information about each host on which an agent is running:
    - File System Monitoring
      Similar to the Hosts List page, the File System page shows information about the various file systems that are present across all of the hosts that are being monitored.
    - Process Monitoring
      Monitor can be configured to monitor processes on remote machines, provided that an agent program is installed and running on the hosts to be monitored.
    - Machine Load Monitoring
      The Machine Load page provides historical reporting capability for viewing the utilization of the machines being monitored over a specified time period.
  - 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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Machine Load Monitoring

The Machine Load page provides historical reporting capability for viewing the utilization of the machines being monitored over a specified time period.

The plots shown on this page display the CPU capacity (number of processors or cores) and the 1, 5, and 15-minute load averages for the machine.

Figure 1.

To adjust machine load plots, you adjust the following parameters:

Time Range: The machine selected time period.
Select Waves: These are flow waves for 1, 5, 15 minutes or capacity for that machine load.
Size: The size of the graph – the options are huge, large, normal and small.
Ymax: The maximum value along the y access, which is the maximum machine load displayed.
Columns: The number of columns to displayed.
Sort By: You can sort by Host, Peak Load, Average Load, Capacity or Jobs
Aggregations: NA - This not currently a working option.
Host List: The current host, the database host, or the aggregation grouped the data together (aggregated is not currently a working option).

The calendar-based report period selector on the left hand side of the page can be used to specify how far back in history to look at for the load metrics.