Manual Reporting

Manual reporting requires the administrator to gather logs and deliver them via web upload to Altair on a monthly basis.

The current, open log file is in the processing directory. All closed, finished logs are stored in pending. The directory bin contains the file that is used to start the Usage Reporting Tool or URT (urt.bat or urt.sh). All log files are plain text and digitally signed to prevent tampering.

The current URT utilizes a Java program (lib/altairURT.jar) to send the data from the host to Altair. The configuration file for the program is alus.conf. This is where things such as proxy settings and HTTP vs. HTTPS are configured.

Manual Processing and upload of Data

All that is required to implement this method is to copy/backup the urt.sh or urt.bat file to another name, such as urt_original.bat or urt_original.sh and change the original file to be empty. The file resides in bin/urt.bat

For Linux/Unix:

cp urt.sh urt_original.sh

For Windows:

copy urt.bat urt_original.bat

Then, edit the urt.bat or urt.sh and remove all lines, leaving the file completely empty. When the license server ÒstartsÓ the URT, nothing happens and the log file creation continues normally.

Assuming you copied the original file to urt_original.bat you will need to edit that file. Simply invoke the old script with the ÐM option. This option prepares the files to be sent and places the final file in the directory pointed to in the alus.conf file (ALUS_MANUAL_DIRECTORY, by default alus/data/manual) Running ./urt_original.bat ÐM creates a file(s) in the manual directory with a name like YYYYMMDD######_#.zip Find the correctly dated file and use the web upload at https://urtx.altair.com. An automated reminder email will be sent to you monthly containing a link to the report upload site.

If you have an issue with the web upload, you can alternatively send the logs to Altair via email (as an attachment) to usagereporting@altair.com.