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Monitor Overview
A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
Monitor Tutorials
Currently there are no Monitor tutorials available.
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
  - 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

Workweek Definition

Monitor includes support for workweek filtering for certain reports. The workweek defaults to 08:00-18:00 (8am to 6pm) Monday - Friday.

Using the browser interface, visit the Workweek administration page. On this page one will find the current workweek definition. Users logged in with 'admin' privileges will be able to redefine the workweek definition by clicking Edit Workweek Definition.