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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.
Historical Reports
Generate and view three types of reports.
Feature Efficiency Statistics
A table showing the metrics associated with efficient licenses usage.

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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.
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.
- Navigation
- Current Reports
- Views Tab
  Create tables and reports that show the items you’re interested in viewing and tracking.
- Historical Reports
  Generate and view three types of reports.
  - Daily Feature Statistics
    The Usage tab displays the Feature Daily Statistics table. This page serves as a high-level overview of availability and utilization statistics for a given 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.
  - Feature Heatmap
    Monitor provides a unique report type for visualizing license activity, which is called a heatmap. A heatmap shows the time period specified, represented as a 24x7 clock view.
  - Checkout Statistics and Details
    The Checkout Statistics page is a powerful data mining tool that can be used to find pin-pointed answers about license utilization.
  - Checkout Duration Histogram
    The Checkout Duration Histogram page shows the distribution of checkouts based on their durations.
  - 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.
- Project Tracking
- Network Tab
  Displays information on hosts and file systems on which agents are running.
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Feature Efficiency Statistics

A table showing the metrics associated with efficient licenses usage.

This table shows you the licenses that have been idle too long – and provides a breakdown of recommended license numbers based on historical data. The percentages provide valuable insight into their usage over time. This table shows the metrics associated with efficient license usage.

Figure 1. Feature Efficiency Statistics

Information in this report includes:

Tag: Name of the tag.
Feature: Name of the feature.
Product: Name of the product, if the administrator has configured product view.
Capacity: The total number of licenses available for the feature for the specified time range.
Requests: The total number of requests for the feature for the specified time range.
PeakUse: The peak number of concurrent checkouts detected for the feature for the specified time range.
AvgUse: The average number of concurrent checkouts for the feature for the specified time.
Idle Time%: The percentage of overall time that the license had no usage.
Denials: The total number of denials for the feature for the specified time range.
Denial%: The percentage of requests that result in denials for the feature for the specified time range.
Use 95.0% #: The number and percentage of capacity that is required to meet demand 95.0% of the time.
Use 95.0% %: The percentage of capacity that is required to meet demand 95% of the time.
Use 99.0% #: The number and percentage of capacity that is required to meet demand 99.0% of the time.
Use 99.0% %: The percentage of capacity that is required to meet demand 99% of the time.