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.
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.
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 unlicensed tools. The primary user interface for accessing Monitor is a web interface.
Standalone Configuration for Parsing Debug Logs (Web Based)
To set up Monitor for standalone configurations, perform the
following steps:
Go to the Admin tab and select
Monitors.
Figure 1. Standalone Configuration
Enter the full path to the status command, if needed
Select the Monitor Type.
Specify a unique tag name.
Enter the license file location.
Enter the full path to the status command, if needed.
Enter path to debug log (use the @DATE@.nameoflog) note that
for either key word to work the date must be in the format
yyyyMMDD.
Enter the Time zone, if different from that of the Monitor server.
Optional: From Options, you can click If parsing a debug log, load checkouts
in additional to denials. Click this ONLY if you don’t have live
sampling. We don’t recommend this.
Select periods. Default periods can be changed, but we recommend you keep the
defaults.