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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Monitor manages users, but not passwords. Instead, the server can authenticate users against an LDAP system, or it can use
the operating system as an authentication proxy.
There may be situations where company policy may not allow all data to be visible to all users that have access Monitor. This section describes how Monitor can be locked down so that users only have visibility to the data for which he or she is authorized to view. This
is made possible by the subsystem access control list (ACL) functionality.
Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the administrator in further locking down the various pieces of
data that may contain sensitive information.
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.
Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the administrator in further locking down the various pieces of
data that may contain sensitive information.
Monitor also provides a security analysis report that aids the
administrator in further locking down the various pieces of data that may contain sensitive
information.
This report is available via Admin > System > Security Information. The report highlights items that are not secure and provides
instructions for securing them. This functionality is only available if the Monitor server is running on UNIX.
View and Edit ACLs
As previously mentioned, the underlying mechanism that provides these security
measures is provided by the subsystem ACL functionality. To view and/or manually
edit ACLs for a license daemon object, visit the Security
Information page and click on one of the license daemon object IDs at
the bottom of the page. The resulting ACL control page is meant for advanced users
who are familiar with the Access Control List system.