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 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.
The Usage tab displays the Feature Daily Statistics table. This page serves as a high-level overview of availability
and utilization statistics for a given time frame.
Monitor provides a unique report type for visualizing license activity, which is called a heatmap. A heatmap shows the time period specified, represented as a 24x7 clock view.
The Usage Trends page provides the ability to report on one or more features over a specified time frame while breaking
the time frame into smaller segments, each with their own average and peak usage statistics.
Batch reporting is available through the ftlm_batch_report command. Batch reporting is useful when the report period is long or there is a desire to have more than
one report shown on the web page.
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.
Batch reporting is available through the ftlm_batch_report command. Batch reporting is useful when the report period is long or there is a desire to have more than
one report shown on the web page.
Note: Only system administrators can create a report.
To create a batch report, go to the History Batch Reports
page. There are report options to choose from when creating a report.
Complete the required fields:
Option
Description
Time Interval
Specify the time interval of the report.
Filters
Select types of filters you wish applied to the report. Current tag,
feature, host, user, project, and version filters are available. User
groups will also show up as filters.
User-Specific Batch Reports
If this option is selected, a list of known user-specific scripts
will be listed, and various input form elements will be hidden since
they are no longer applicable. The directories
$VOVDIR/etc/lm/reports and
$VOVDIR/local/lm/reports will be searched for
user scripts.
Output Format
Choose between outputting report to HTML or to CSV. If CSV is
selected, only tabular report components will be available.
Specify the max number of table rows to display for statistics
report components.
Features Options
Specify whether to breakdown results by feature.
Data Source
Specify whether data comes from lmstats samples, from debug logs, or
from both.
Report File Options
Specify whether report output should be placed into a single file,
or whether it should be split up by tags and placed in multiple files
(per tag).
Report File Name
Specify name of report output file.
Click Create Reports.
This redirects the input criteria to the CLI utility
ftlm_batch_report in the form of a job, and the page will
be redirected to a page that will display information similar to what is shown
below:
This table contains all report jobs for the given time interval
directory path, along with the size, the age, and the current status of the
each report. Clicking the report name brings up the report contents.
Clicking the report status displays the detailed batch report job page. The
actions column provides a means of invalidating, executing, and deleting the
report. If a report is new, it will be invalid (an empty stub) and will need
to be executed. Each report will output either an HTML file or a CSV file.
An available reports tree listing will be shown when the directory path does not
contain actual report files. In this case, visual information similar to the
following will be displayed:
This shows that the directory 2023/ exist in the
licmon.swd/html/reports directory, containing the
Q3/m07/ subdirectories. The time intervals (directories)
with links indicate that there are actual reports for these time intervals. The
trash icons allow the user to delete all reports contained at that level and in all
subdirectories.