monitord Daemon

Purpose

Communicates with the License Use Management server and requests a concurrent-use license for each countable login.

Syntax

monitord [ -t Minutes ] [ -v Version.Release]

Description

The operating system has multiple ways to access the system, and each of them has a different behavior upon exit. The monitord daemon provides a common interface to the License Use Management netlsd. monitord communicates with the License Use Management server and requests a concurrent-use license for each countable login.

Note: The License Use Management licensing mechanism is used only if the system has the floating license mode enabled.

After user logout, monitord requests netlsd to release the specific license the user was using, in order to make it available for further logins.

monitord is started when the chlicense -f on command is used to enable the floating license mode. When the floating license mode is enabled, monitord is started upon system startup via an entry in /etc/inittab. The default (invoked without -t option) is an interval of fifteen minutes.

The entry in /etc/inittab looks like the following:

monitord:2:once:/usr/sbin/monitord >/dev/console 2>&1

Flags

Item	Description
-t Minutes	Sets the value in minutes of the heartbeat interval. A value of 0 sets an infinite interval. The default is fifteen minutes.
-v Version.Release	Enables the floating license mode for a license of the specified Version and Release.

Security

Attention RBAC users and Trusted AIX users: This command can perform privileged operations. Only privileged users can run privileged operations. For more information about authorizations and privileges, see Privileged Command Database in Security. For a list of privileges and the authorizations associated with this command, see the lssecattr command or the getcmdattr subcommand.