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.
By default, no links will show until you have configured them. You can add links to your Home tab to more efficiently
manage your system, and we recommend you do that once you have configured the system.
The Current tab shows a summary of features with active checkouts the moment the page is loaded. By hiding the features
that have no usage, this page shows the location of the license activity.
The Views functionality of Altair Monitor allows an authenticated user to create a high-level table-based status report that shows only the items desired
by the user.
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.
The Monitor home page is intended to provide a current,
high-level overview of the license environment being monitored.
This includes a section for some basic utilization and wait time statistics, a
customized view section, and a section that shows the status of the most active
license servers. Clicking on the headers takes you to each header's respective page.
Current Status
The first section on the home page shows some high-level utilization and wait time
statistics for the moment of time at which the home page was loaded. The statistics
are divided into two categories: "Current Utilization" and "Current Wait": Figure 1. Home Page: Statistics Section
Each category is further broken down into a collection of top-five metrics. This
allows the user to see the most used features, the most active users, and the
features that are the largest bottlenecks. The features and users that show up in
these sections are links, which can be clicked on to obtain details about the
statistic.
My View Section
The My View section shows the configured default view for the current authenticated
user. A view is a pre-configured collection of tag and/or feature
filters that are presented in a table for convenience. Views can be created and/or
edited in the Views tab. Clicking on My View navigates to
this page. Figure 2. Home Page: My View Section
License Server Section
The final section shown on the home page is the license servers section. This section
shows the most active license servers, their status, and some basic statistics about
the server such as the number of features served by the server, the number of
checkouts that are currently active on the server, and the last time the server was
sampled by Monitor for data collection. Figure 3. Home Page: License Servers Section
Alerts Monitor includes an alert system that provides visibility to anomalies that occur within the licensing environment or the Monitor product itself.
Links
By default, no links will show until you have configured them. You can add links to your Home tab to more efficiently manage your system, and we recommend you do that once you have configured the system.