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- Command Line Interface
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    The Altair Accelerator products have a rich set of programs that can be run the shell command line. Each program performs a specific task and is controlled by a set of command line parameters. The programs provide a usage command when run with an -h parameter as a quick way to understand what each does and what parameters it takes.
  - VOV Properties
    Properties can be attached to any object in the vovserver. Properties are managed from the command line via the vovprop command. This command can get, set, delete, and show properties on objects.
  - Customization of Node.cgi
  - vovshowconnection
    Show connection between two nodes in the trace.
  - vovwavepp
    The utility vovwavepp is used to convert the verbose logs generated by the vovserver into efficient "wave" files.
  - vovmemtime
    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.
  - vovtestsocket
    Test vovserver socket connectivity.
- Fields, Selection Rules and Formatting Strings
- VOV Metrics
  The Altair Accelerator allows users to collect arbitrary metrics, where a metric is defined as a "named time series" of values, where each value is either a floating point number or a string.
- Miscellaneous
- VOV Security Infrastructure
- REST Application Programming Interface
  Altair Accelerator supports a RESTful API that enables a developer to submit, monitor, and control batch jobs as well as query the batch scheduler queues, jobs, and hosts in useful ways.
- All About Tcl
- VTK Procedures
EDA Tool Integration Guide
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vovtestsocket

Test vovserver socket connectivity.

The command vovtestsocket attempts to connect to the specified port on a host. It must be called from a vov-project enabled shell. It prints the result and also places it in a property on the trace (object 1) in vovserver.

Important: The vovserver for the project must be running.

The result is printed and a time-stamped property of the form SOCKET_<HOST>_<PORT> is attached. See example below.


vovtestsocket: Usage Message
  
  DESCRIPTION:
      This utility tests the connectivity to a socket
      and leaves the status in a property of the trace.
      The property is called SOCKET_$HOST_$PORT.
  
  USAGE:
      % vovtestsocket HOST PORT

Examples

myproject@server DEFAULT ~ > vovtestsocket tiger 110
vovtestsocket 04/24/2017 10:21:55: message: Status: 'ok'
myproject@server BASE+SVN1 ~ > vovprop list 1 | grep SOCK
SOCKET_tiger_110 = '1493054515 ok'

This example attempts to connect to a host 'tiger' on port 110 (the one usually used by POP3 protocol). This command returns 0 exit status irrespective of the result.