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Security Analysis
Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the administrator in further locking down the various pieces of data that may contain sensitive information.

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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.
Altair Monitor Administrator Guide
- Altair Monitor Overview
  This document describes how to configure and manage Altair Monitor.
- Enable CLI Access on UNIX
  This section explains how to set up a UNIX user's shell environment to have a proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
- Enable CLI Access on Windows
  This section explains how to set up a Window user's command prompt environment to have the proper context for the user to run installed Altair Accelerator programs from the command line. The programs that are run from the command line are called the CLI commands.
- Use Monitor Help
  Monitor documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- Server Operation
- Failover Server Candidates
  If a server crashes suddenly, VOV has the capability to start a replacement server on a pre-selected host. This capability requires that the pre-selected host is configured as a failover server.
- Daemon Operation
  Although the Monitor daemons are started automatically upon startup, there may be times where a daemon should be restarted. This section describes how to control the Monitor daemons.
- Daemon Manager Utility
  Although the Monitor daemons are started automatically upon startup, there may be times where a daemon should be restarted. This section describes how to control the daemons from the command line (CLI).
- Database
  Monitor stores historical information about jobs in a relational database. As of version 2015.09, the database is fully integrated and managed as part of Monitor. This section provides an overview of the components that run and manage the database.
- Configuring Monitoring
- License Server Management
- Other Configurations
  - Notification
    Monitor includes a facility for e-mailing notifications of events that require attention, such as notifications of license daemons that are down or licenses that are checked out for long periods of time. The vovnotifyd daemon is responsible for sending out notifications.
  - Security
    - User Management
      Monitor manages users, but not passwords. Instead, the server can authenticate users against an LDAP system, or it can use the operating system as an authentication proxy.
    - Security Principles
      Every user possesses a security principle.
    - Control Access to Tag Data
      There may be situations where company policy may not allow all data to be visible to all users that have access Monitor. This section describes how Monitor can be locked down so that users only have visibility to the data for which he or she is authorized to view. This is made possible by the subsystem access control list (ACL) functionality.
    - Security Analysis
      Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the administrator in further locking down the various pieces of data that may contain sensitive information.
  - Web Server Configuration
  - Web Interface
  - LDAP Integration
    Monitor includes an interface to LDAP that can provide authentication services, extract user and display user attributes throughout the various pages in the web interface, and drive custom groups of users for reporting purposes.
  - Workweek Definition
- Command Line Operations
- Reference

Security Analysis

Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the administrator in further locking down the various pieces of data that may contain sensitive information.

This report is available via Admin > System > Security Information. The report highlights items that are not secure and provides instructions for securing them. This functionality is only available if the Monitor server is running on UNIX.

View and Edit ACLs

As previously mentioned, the underlying mechanism that provides these security measures is provided by the subsystem ACL functionality. To view and/or manually edit ACLs for a license daemon object, visit the Security Information page and click on one of the license daemon object IDs at the bottom of the page. The resulting ACL control page is meant for advanced users who are familiar with the Access Control List system.