Database Schema
The SQL schema used by this version of Monitor is visualized in the following entity-relationship diagram.
View new features for Monitor 2024.1.0.
A real time software license monitoring and management tool.
Currently there are no Monitor tutorials available.
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 document describes how to configure and manage Altair Monitor.
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.
Monitor documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
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.
The command line utility vovdb_util can be used to configure most aspects of the Monitor database. You must have ADMIN privileges on the Monitor server to configure and control the database.
Monitor includes version 14.4 of the PostgreSQL database engine that is used by the VOV database daemon vovdb. This section describes how to determine if a database upgrade will be needed when upgrading the Accelerator product software.
This section details the methods that Monitor uses to load data into the database, and the configuration options available to control which data is loaded.
One function of the utility vovdb_util
is to export the database into jobs data files. The exported files are saved in the vnc.swd/data/dump directory.
There are two ways to do direct backups of the database: automatic and manual. In addition, the original source data files may be saved.
The Tag Administration page, found in the Admin tab, provides an interface to managing tags. A tag is defined as a unique identifier for a license server being monitored. Tags are chosen by the Monitor administrator. The actions that are available in the tag administration page are listed below.
In FlexNet Publisher monitoring, checkout data can be obtained from two different data sources.
Monitor requires a license in order to store and report on historical license utilization information. If at any point a license is not available while the server is running, the server enters a licensing "grace period" of five days and the system will continue to operate as normal.
The SQL schema used by this version of Monitor is visualized in the following entity-relationship diagram.
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.
The SQL schema used by this version of Monitor is visualized in the following entity-relationship diagram.
The SQL schema used by this version of Monitor is visualized in the following entity-relationship diagram.
Copyright (c) 1994-2023. Altair Engineering, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Contains trade secrets of Altair Engineering, Inc. Copyright notice does not imply publication.
Intellectual Property Rights Notice | Technical Support | Cookie Consent