Use Monitor Help
Monitor documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
Access the Help when Monitor is Running
When Monitor is running, it displays the documentation through
its browser interface. To access it from browser, you need to know which host and
port Monitor is running on. Ask your administrator, or find the
URL for Monitor with the following
command:
% Monitor cmd vovbrowser
http://comet:6271/project
In the example below, assume Monitor is running on host comet,
port 6271. The URL for Monitor
is:
http://comet:6271
To get the entire suite of Altair Accelerator documents, including
FlowTracer™, Accelerator™, Monitor™ and the VOV subsystem, use the following
URL:
http://comet:6271/doc/html/bookshelf/index.htm
Access the Help when Monitor is not Running
All the documentation files are in the Altair Accelerator install
directory, so you can access them even if vovserver is not
running. To do this, open /installation_directory/common/doc/html/bookshelf/index.htm in your browser.
Tip: Bookmark the above URL for future reference.
Access the Help PDF Files
Altair Accelerator also provides PDF files for each of the guides. All the PDF files are in the directory /installation_directory/common/doc/pdf
Access the Help via the Command Line
The main commands of Accelerator are nc
and ncmgr, with some subcommands and options. You can get
usage help, descriptions and examples of the commands by running the command without
any options, or with the -h option. For
example,
% nc info -h
nc:
nc: NC INFO:
nc: Get information about a specific job or list of jobs.
nc: USAGE:
nc: % nc info <jobId> [options]...
nc: -h -- Show this message
nc: -l -- Show the log file
nc:
Access the Help via the vovshow Command
Another source of live information is using the command vovshow.
The following options are often useful:
- vovshow -env RX
- Displays the environment variables that match the regular expression RX provided.
- vovshow -fields
- Shows the fields known to the version of VOV in use.
- vovshow -failcodes
- Shows the table of known failure codes.
For example, to find a variable that controls the name of the stdout/stderr files,
without knowing the exact name of that variable, the following command can be used:
% vovshow -env STD
VOV_STDOUT_SPEC Control the names of file used to save stdout and
stderr. The value is computed by substituting
the substrings @OUT@ and @UNIQUE@ and @ID@.
Examples: % setenv VOV_STDOUT_SPEC
.std@OUT@.@UNIQUE@ % setenv VOV_STDOUT_SPEC
.std@OUT@.@ID@
The output provides a description of all the variables used by the FlowTracer system that include the substring "STD". In this example, the output resultVOV_STDOUT_SPEC.