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Altair FlowTracer Administrator Guide
This manual is aimed at the person who will be the administrator for FlowTracer. This person will be responsible for configuring the network resources, setting up the licensing, and establishing security and access rules for the system.
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Project Archive
In case there are many projects that are obsolete but can be used later, those projects can be compressed and stored in a separate directory with vovproject archive.

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Altair FlowTracer Administrator Guide
This manual is aimed at the person who will be the administrator for FlowTracer. This person will be responsible for configuring the network resources, setting up the licensing, and establishing security and access rules for the system.
- FlowTracer Roles
  When using FlowTracer in large deployments, three main roles emerge: Administrator, Developer and User. In smaller organizations, a given person may have multiple roles, but the duties of each role still exist.
- Enable CLI Access on UNIX
  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.
- Enable CLI Access on Windows
  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.
- User Interfaces
- Use FlowTracer Help
  FlowTracer documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- Projects
  - Project Registry
    The Registry contains the list of all project known to an installation of Altair Accelerator software.
  - Project Archive
    In case there are many projects that are obsolete but can be used later, those projects can be compressed and stored in a separate directory with vovproject archive.
  - Manage the Shell Prompt
- Server Working Directory
  When a project is created, a server working directory (.swd directory) is created to hold configuration and state information about the project.
- Alerts
  VOV issues an "alert" when an event requires attention. An alert can range from information that does not require action to an urgent fault that requires immediate action.
- Manage the Server for a Project
- Security
  The VOV security model consists of assigning a Security Code to each client or client group (VovUser Group) and granting the permission to execute critical tasks only to clients with the appropriate security level.
- Taskers
  A tasker is a VOV client that provides computing resources, specifically CPU cycles, to the vovserver.
- Interfaces to Accelerator, SGE, LSF, and Others
  FlowTracer can be used also as a front end to an existing batch processing system (BPS), for example, Accelerator, LSF, SGE, SGEEE, etc.
- Configuration for Elastic Computing
- Configuration for Altair Accelerator
- Configure a Failover Server Replacement
  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.
- Advanced Information
- Multi-User Altair FlowTracer
  FlowTracer now supports a "multi-user" mode of operation, as a Beta feature. In the multi-user mode, many different users can share the same project, in terms of modifying a flow as well as running different compoments of the flow.
- IT Administrator Topics
- Special Issues
- Miscellaneous
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Project Archive

In case there are many projects that are obsolete but can be used later, those projects can be compressed and stored in a separate directory with vovproject archive.

Each project has a registry and a Server Working Directory. Multiple projects can be created using a FlowTracer installation. When a large number of projects exist, vovproject list operation may become slow to complete. This is a good time to archive some projects.

A project can be archived as follows:

% vovproject archive chip1
vovproject 08/29/2016 23:52:23: message: Archiving chip1.swd ...
vovproject 08/29/2016 23:52:24: message: SUCCESS: archived project chip1: archived swd size=14 KB

To list projects in the archived directory, use -archive option. In vovproject list, the archived project is no longer listed.

% vovproject list -archive
    PROJECT                     OWNER  HOST       PORT  STATUS
1   chip1                       johnak linux33    6425  stopped

% vovproject list 
    PROJECT                     OWNER  HOST       PORT  STATUS
1   chiptest                    johnak mac05      6442  obsolete

To revive an archived project, vovproject unarchive as in:

% vovproject unarchive chip1
vovproject 08/29/2016 23:56:46: message: Unarchiving chip1.swd ...
vovproject 08/29/2016 23:56:46: message: SUCCESS: unarchived project chip1
% vovproject list 
    PROJECT                     OWNER  HOST       PORT  STATUS
1   chiptest                    johnak mac05      6442  obsolete
2   chip1                       johnak linux33    6425  stopped

You can see the unarchived project from vovproject list.

The archive directory is located vovserverdir/.archive by default. Customized directory can be set as the environment variable VOV_ARCHIVE_DIR.