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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.
Current Tab
A summary of features with active checkouts.
Current Utilization
The Current Utilization Overview page is a summary of the features that have active checkouts at the moment that page is loaded.

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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.
    - Current Utilization
      The Current Utilization Overview page is a summary of the features that have active checkouts at the moment that page is loaded.
    - Servers Page
      The License Server page shows a list of all license servers that are configured to be monitored, along with the status and basic availability and utilization statistics.
    - Features Page
      The Current Feature Status page shows the availability and utilization details of the features.
    - Checkouts Page
      The Current Checkouts page shows all checkouts for all tags and features at the time the page was loaded. The checkouts are sorted by their age in descending order by default. This order helps to identify problematic checkouts that may require attention.
    - My Checkouts Page
      The My Checkouts page is a pop-up page that displays active checkout information for a user. You can export the table to CVS format.
    - Expirations
      The Expirations page provides an overview of upcoming license feature expirations that have been detected in the licensing environment.
    - Raw Data
      The Raw Data page can be used to view the raw output of the status command for its most recent execution.
  - 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

Current Utilization

The Current Utilization Overview page is a summary of the features that have active checkouts at the moment that page is loaded.

By hiding the features that have no usage, this page can easily show where the license activity is. The simple metric shown is in the format of "in use" or "available". The features that are saturated (100% utilized) are highlighted in red text.