2025.1.0
Utility to show and manage user project and custom group definitions.
Manages feature capacity information in the Monitor database.
Perform validation of the Monitor database. User tests are for PostgreSQL and MySQL only and cannot be combined with other options.
Utility to deobfuscate and load checkouts that have been obfuscated by Monitor during situations where the product license was either unavailable, exceeded, or expired.
This utility supports a table used to capture the forecast requirement based on a feature, account, or monthly basis. The forecast, if available, can be plotted together with usage and capacity.
Extract information from a supported vendor's license file to create a product/feature map.
Initialize the licmgr/current directory for Monitor. This is the directory where copies of the active licenses are stored. This script is normally called automatically by ftlm_licmgr.cgi.
A utility to capture the value of LM_PROJECT on the current host, for the current user.
Parses and loads checkouts found in a Code Meter debug log.
Parses and loads denials, and optionally checkouts, found in a FlexNet debug log.
Parses and loads denials, and optionally checkouts, found in a Dassault DSLS debug log.
Executes the Elan license status command and parses its output to discover capacity and utilization information so that it can be recorded into server memory.
A parser to track the change of FlexNet Publisher License option files.
A script to parse the output of Fujitsu's ICAD license manager. This license manager is known to output unsupported 2-byte characters (namely, Japanese characters). If parsing such an instance, a wrapper script will need to be used that converts these characters to ASCII characters.
Parse a LUM report for denial events.
A parser to track the usage of VOV Key Licenses.
A parser to track the usage of slots in Accelerator. Assumes that vovslotconsumptiond is running. This parser read the property SLOTS_CONSUMPTION.
Compute summary tables.
Manage tags in the Monitor database.
Create a reservation on an emulator.
Altair Allocator Manager.
Utility that will obtain and load data from a remote Monitor instance into a local instance.
Altair Monitor management script. Execute on the server. Some commands require enablement by first typing "vovproject enable licmon". If a project name other than licmon is used, use that name instead.
Submit, query, and stop jobs. This command can also be invoked as vnc.
This command cleans up obsolete log files and environment files that have been generated by jobs submitted to the scheduler.
Debug a problem.
Forget jobs from the trace.
Get one or all fields of one or more NC jobs. Specify the jobID or use '!' for the most recent job in the current working directory.
Show a grid view of the jobs in a specified set.
Show hosts in the farm. The hosts are also called taskers or vovtaskers.
Get information about a specific job or list of jobs.
List classes defined for job submission
List jobs currently in the system.
Modify scheduled jobs
Preempt the specified running jobs.
Rerun jobs already in the system.
Support tasker lists. Tasker lists are named, ordered lists of taskers.
Stop jobs.
Get a summary report for all of my jobs.
Wait for a specific job or list of jobs to complete, fail, or be forgotten.
Show why a job is in the state it is.
This program manages the vovserver for Accelerator.
ncmgr cm is a utility for performing configuration management actions.
Shut down an Accelerator queue.
Display information about the files. By default, all files in the current working directory are listed.
Execute the scripts in the *.swd/autostart directory.
Execute the scripts in the *.swd/autostop directory.
Store a VOV or Windows password for one or more projects.
Forget files from the trace AND DELETE THEM from the disk. The files must be specified by name. Each file argument is interpreted as a regular expression. All dependent nodes are invalidated.
Basic check of configuration of VOV installation, configuration, and project setup.
Check the timestamp of all files in a project. This is an expensive operation, so this script implements a semaphore to avoid concurrent checks.
Clean up directories of all UNKNOWN files.
Cleanup log files in host and project directory.
Apply a set of up-cone and down-cone operations starting from one or more jobs or files.
Interface to the UNIX utility crontab.
This is the command to show the status of daemons. You can also use this command to start/stop the daemons.
Utilities for use with the VOV database.
Capture the SNAPSHOT environment into a file or add it as a property to an object.
A utility to show the event stream.
Generates a file in FDL (i.e. Tcl), C-Shell, or Makefile syntax from a subset of the trace.
A utility to manage storage configuration items.
A daemon to monitor filers and control Filer:XXX Resources
Generate a .pp file from a flow description in Tcl.
Forget objects from the project's vovserver. The objects are typically nodes (files or jobs) and are passed by VovId or by file name. The objects may also be users, sets, or selected by option.
Create, show, and modify attributes of FairShare groups. The script also controls Access Control Lists (ACL) for FairShare groups.
Probe to calculate latency and free space in a file system.
In some situations, using other methods to set the LM_VAR_NAME variable on the fly may be preferred. The utility vovgetflexlmdaemons can be used to locate the daemons that need to be used based on the resources grabbed by Accelerator at dispatch time.
The program vovgetnetinfo is used with Accelerator and Monitor to fill in information about the hosts. vovgetnetinfo is to be run periodically from the scripts created by the vovcrontab command.
A utility related to vovgetnetinfo is vovinfo, which performs the same function as vovsh -s netinfo, but with a smaller binary. This binary can only get host and process information, and does not have Tcl/TK or the VTK API.
vovsh -s netinfo
Invalidate nodes in the dependency graph. The objects are typically files or jobs, which are passed by VovId or by file name, and sets, which are passed by name.
A daemon to monitor Isilon filers and control Accelerator resources.
This utility is used to kill processes.
The main Allocator daemon used as part of the Allocator product to allocate licenses across multiple Accelerator sites and multiple LSF clusters.
Utility to perfom LDAP lookups.
A utility to manage certain LDAP integration configuration items.
This utility queries an LDAP server to look up configured user attributes that are used to define group memberships in the Monitor database.
This script is called by vovserver about once a minute. It can be used to perform maintenance tasks.
This utility removes all the license features associated with the given job.
This script is normally call by the wrapper da_job which refers to the property SCRIPT_POST.
This is a script used to convert makefiles into FlowTracer flows.
vovmemtime is a utility to create simulated workloads. When this program runs, it occupies a specified amount of memory and creates high CPU utilization for the requested amount of time, to simulate the activity of real design programs running.
Manipulate VOV metrics. Metrics are organized by family. Available families are design (1), server (2), and FairShare (4).
A daemon to monitor NetApp filers and control Accelerator resources.
This utility queries NIS to look up group members that are used to define group memberships in the Monitor database.
Main preemption daemon, based on the C++ implementation of preemption.
Specify which method to use for each resource this is used by the preempted job.
Get information about and manage processes on hosts where an Altair Engineering vovtasker is running, for example, in Accelerator.
The vovproject tool is used to manage a VOV project.
Get, set, delete, and show properties on objects.
vovps lists all processes, similar to the UNIX command ps. It is useful to understand the process hierarchy of Accelerator jobs, and sometimes to find which PIDs to kill in a shell.
vovreconciled is a daemon that detects "requested/not_used" resources for running jobs and removes them from the "grabbed resources" list after a certain amount of time, called "RevocationDelay"
Remove files intelligently, considering the role of the file in the design flow, the size of the file, and the time it takes to generate the file. This operation works only for data in the FILE database.
vovresgrab is used in conjunction with vovresreq to request resources on the fly. This utility is not meant to be invoked by the user, but only by vovresreq.
vovresourcemgr is a utility for managing VOV resource maps. It may be used to create, modify, forget, and reserve resource maps.
This utility creates a job for tool vovresgrab.
Search log files.
This program provides security key pair management functions for VOV.
Utility to query vovserver data.
Perform basic operations on sets of nodes.
The common use of vovsh is to execute a Tcl script which contains the Tcl extensions provided by Altair Accelerator.
Show various types of objects in a VOV project, as well as documentation.
Utility to obtain a security signature for files.
Output a snapshot of an Accelerator's SW configuration to STDOUT.
Output a snapshot of an Accelerator's HW configuration to STDOUT.
From the database of all jobs (e.g. sq3/jobs.sq3), get a summary report with statistics on wait times, duration, etc. The time interval defined by the -start and -end options restrict the statistics to the jobs that have been SUBMITTED in the given interval.
Make a copy of a SQlite database and modify its contents by duplicating and eliminating jobs based on timestamp, duration, user, and project.
Creates Monitor database schema using the database settings specified in licmon.swd/db/config.tcl. Settings can be overridden with options.
Load job-logs into the SQL database. Useful also to merge the data from multiple sites (or multiple clusters). The name of the site should preferably be short.
Records prediction information on one job into the FlowTracer sql database as it is running.
Stop a list of objects. The jobs are normally descheduled, but if the -f (-force) option is used, then also running jobs are stopped.
Manipulate tasker lists.
Test vovserver socket connectivity.
Toggles the status of the given nodes twice, so that each node passes through a state of being INVALID.
This utility listens for requests to launch taskers for various projects, but always for the same user. The requests typically come from vovtaskermgr.
Utility to show, create and maintain "vovusergroup" structures based on user lists, UNIX groups and LDAP groups.
Print the VOV version. Optionally show more details.
Wait for VOVserver port numbers to be determined and ready for connections.
Utility to setup a connector for Accelerator Plus to a primary queue.
This scripts performs "Impact Analysis" with VOV.
Show history of files in the dependency graph.
Print basic information about a project. Also useful to test whether a vovserver is running or not.
Monitor activity in VOV.
Retrace a list of files and directories. Use option -set to retrace sets of nodes.
Show the jobs that have been executed in one or more directories. By default, vst looks at the current directory and shows only the jobs with same environment as the current one.
Show the inputs and outputs of nodes in the trace.
Analyze job status reasons.
Zap away problematic nodes.
If a job appears to behave differently when executed by WX than when it runs without using WX, you can use this command to debug the problem.
Get one or all fields of one or more WX jobs.
Enables modifying fields in the scheduled jobs.
This program manages the vovserver for Accelerator Plus.
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