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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.
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.
Create a Custom Report

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Monitor Overview
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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Create a Custom Report

The batch reporting capability in Monitor requires writing a Tcl script to describe the elements of the report and some work with the command line. The Tcl script generates HTML code that can be displayed in the browser, provided that the report is stored in a subdirectory of licmon.swd/html/reports. Example scripts are available in $VOVDIR/training/lm. The reporting script is processed by the ftlm_batch_report utility.

Make a local copy of the standard report script, which is provided as an example:

% mkdir -p $VOVDIR/local/lm/reports
% cp $VOVDIR/etc/lm/reports/report_tag.tcl $VOVDIR/local/lm/reports/.

Go to the directory where the report output is generated:
```
% cd `vovserverdir -p html/reports`
```
Choose a tag and run the report for that tag.
In this example, assume the tag name is "EDA":
```
% ftlm_batch_report -script report_tag.tcl -tag EDA -interval 201006 > EDA_2010_06.html
```
Note: Depending on the size of your database, the report may take several minutes.

If the report contains images, such as plots or pie charts, the generated HTML must refer to the image with an appropriate URL. The URL depends on whether or not the read-only port in the vovserver is enabled.

If the readonly port is open, the URL is complete and includes http://HOST:READ_ONLY_PORT/gif/file.gif. For example, http://lmsrv:5556/gif/plot12345.gif. The host is the value of VOV_HOST_HTTP_NAME, if defined, or of VOV_HOST_NAME. These settings are defined in the licmon.swd/setup.tcl configuration file. The port number is the read-only port. The reason for using a complete URL is to allow the report to be embedded into external web pages.

If the readonly port is not open, then the URL is relative to the current vovserver, as in the following example: /gif/plot12345.gif