Integration with Monarch

This function allows users to automatically load documents from the Content Manager OnDemand client into Monarch.

This section provides information about how to integrate Monarch with the Content Manager OnDemand Windows client. Monarch is a software program that is available from Altair Engineering. The user can then do complex data manipulation from Monarch, such as creating derived columns and generating charts and reports.

This section is of primary interest to administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and distributing software products. This section shows the steps that you typically need to take to integrate Monarch with Content Manager OnDemand. This section describes how to do some of the tasks, but you will need other Content Manager OnDemand information and your Monarch information to do others.

A reference workstation contains an installed copy of the Content Manager OnDemand client with the Monarch DLL defined to Content Manager OnDemand. An administrator uses configuration information from the reference workstation to distribute software to other users. A distribution server is a network file server that contains a copy of the Content Manager OnDemand client installation software in a shared location. Other users on the network use the copy to run the Content Manager OnDemand installation program and install the client from the distribution server to their workstations.

An administrator can use the Content Manager OnDemand Windows client installation program to distribute Monarch files with the Content Manager OnDemand client and configure workstations to run Monarch from the Content Manager OnDemand client. IBM recommends that an administrator configure a copy of the Content Manager OnDemand client software on a reference workstation and configure the installation program on a distribution server. Each user planning to run Monarch from Content Manager OnDemand must have the Monarch software installed on their workstation before they install or upgrade the Content Manager OnDemand client with this function.

An administrator can store the Monarch files in the Content Manager OnDemand Windows client installation directory tree on a distribution server. The installation program copies the Monarch files along with the standard Content Manager OnDemand client files when the user installs the client from the server to the workstation. You can distribute several types of files, including:
  • Registry files. The installation program imports these files into the Registry on the user's workstation. A Registry file named ODMonarch.Reg that contains information about the Monarch DLL for the Content Manager OnDemand client must be present for the installation program to integrate Content Manager OnDemand and Monarch on the user's workstation.
    Important: It is easy to accidentally destroy important data and render a system completely unusable by importing Registry files. Plan to back up the Registry on the user's workstation before they run the Setup program.
  • Monarch model files. The installation program copies these files to the Monarch\Models directory on the user's workstation.