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.
If the Monitor administrator has configured the LDAP interface, information about users can be looked up from an LDAP server anywhere
a user name is displayed in the various reports that are provided.
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.
Note: To use the Monitor web interface, the web browser used
must support CSS and JavaScript.
At the top of each page in the Monitor web interface is an
informational banner that displays some important details about the running instance
and the current web session: Figure 1. Monitor Banner
The information provided in the banner includes:
Product name
Product version
Highest level of alert currently present (linked to alerts page)
Current user
Security level for current user
Logout link
Help link (context sensitive)
Links
In addition to using the tabs to manually navigate to pages, many reports turn the
data into cross-links that can be used. For example, clicking on a feature name in
the current features report will link to the current checkouts report, pre-filtered
to the feature that was clicked: Figure 2. Current Feature Status Figure 3. Current Checkouts
Table-based Reports
Many reports in Monitor are displayed in a table format. The
tables are sortable by clicking on the column headers, filterable with the filters
on the bottom, and exportable in CSV format using the csv
button.
Alerts Monitor includes an alert system that provides visibility to anomalies that occur within the licensing environment or the Monitor product itself.
Home Page
The Monitor home page is intended to provide a current, high-level overview of the license environment being monitored.
LDAP Viewer
If the Monitor administrator has configured the LDAP interface, information about users can be looked up from an LDAP server anywhere a user name is displayed in the various reports that are provided.