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VOV Subsystem Administrator Guide
This manual provides information about managing a VOV project, including starting the server and connecting computing resources such as computers and licenses.
Start and Configure the Server
Change the Project Name, Server Host, or User
Change the Server Host

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VOV Subsystem Administrator Guide
This manual provides information about managing a VOV project, including starting the server and connecting computing resources such as computers and licenses.
- Client/Server Architecture
  All of Altair Accelerator's products are based on a client/server architecture to support concurrent activities, team coordination, distributed data management, and distributed processing. The program vovserver runs in the background as a service to implement the main product features. It is the server.
- VOV Projects
  A "project" is a named collection of jobs, together with all the files that are used and produced by those jobs. The contents of VOV projects can be custom organized.
- VOV Registry
  The VOV Registry contains the list of all projects known to an installation of Altair Accelerator software. The registry is used by the vovproject command, and stores metadata such as the host machine and port number of a project.
- Get Started
- Start and Configure the Server
  - Start the vovserver
  - 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.
  - Port Number
    The project name is normally used to compute the number of the TCP port on which the vovserver listens for connections. This is done by hashing the project name into the port range 6200-6455, using the function vtk_port_number.
  - Advanced Control of the Product Ports
  - vovservermgr
    The vovservermgr command is added for system administrators. The vovservermgr command is the easiest way to modify configuration parameter settings, environment variable settings, and certain other features in the running vovserver. This command acts relative to the VOV-project enabled in the shell where it is issued.
  - Server Configuration
    vovserver configuration parameter values may be changed in a running vovserver using the CLI, or prior to the starting the server via the policy.tcl file. An administator can configure the parameters in the running vovserver using the vovservermgr command or the vtk_server_config procedure.
  - Web Server Configuration
  - VOV Protocol Summary
  - Time Tolerance
  - Client Limitation and Tuning
    The maximum number of clients - the combination of vovtaskers, user interfaces and proxies, that can be concurrently connected to a vovserver is limited by the number of file descriptors available.
  - Safe Server Threads
    As the server farm becomes larger and larger, it becomes useful to allow the vovserver to use multiple threads to handle the costly read-only services, such as listing sets of jobs or retrieving the complete list of taskers.
  - Set the Range for VovId
    A VovId is a nine-digit string assigned by VOV to each object in the trace.
  - Server Configuration Parameters
  - Troubleshooting the Server
  - Change the Project Name, Server Host, or User
  - Journals
    The vovserver records all events in a journal file that resides in a the subdirectory journals/ of the server configuration directory.
  - Log Files
  - Start and Configure the Server
    Although the Monitor daemons are started automatically upon startup, there may be times where a daemon should be restarted. This section describes how to control the daemons from the command line (CLI).
  - Autostart Directory
    With the command vovautostart, on vovserver startup, scripts can be specified to execute automatically.
  - Run Periodic Tasks with vovliveness
    If the directory "tasks" exist in the Server Working Directory, the server calls the vovliveness script once per minute.
  - Run Periodic Tasks with vovcrontab
    The UNIX utility crontab is used to perform regularly scheduled tasks such as retracing an entire project each night or storing a back-up of the trace every Saturday. vovcrontab is a VOV utility that simplifies the creation of cron rules for a project. Directions are provided in this section.
  - Job Status Triggers
    The daemon vovtriggerd taps the event stream and executes commands that are based on selected events.
  - Sanity Check for vovserver
    The command sanity is used to perform checks on the consistency of the trace and of other internal data structures.
- Connect to a Project
- Stop the Server
- Recovery and Redundancy
- Files, Equivalences, Exclusions
  The files used in a project reside in one or more directories spread all around your filesystems. Each logical name defined in the equiv.tcl file implicitly declares the root of a workspace. You can browse the workspaces using the browser interface.
- Taskers
  A tasker is a VOV client that provides computing resources, specifically CPU cycles, to the vovserver.
- Tasker Policies
- 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.
- Advanced Tasker Topics
- Resource Management
  Altair Accelerator includes a subsystem for managing computing resources. This allows the design team to factor in various constraints regarding hardware and software resources, as well as site policy constraints.
- IT Administrator Topics
VOV Subsystem Reference Guide
EDA Tool Integration Guide
This document is a collection of techniques that have proven to be useful when applying FlowTracer in Electronic Design Automation.

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Change the Server Host

To change the host of a project, the vovserver must be stopped and the host references fixed in the following files:

The setup.tcl file in the server working directory
The registry entry (normally located in $VOVDIR/local/registry/user/)
For Accelerator only, the queue-specific configuration file in the NC_CONFIG_DIR directory (usually $VOVDIR/local/vncConfig)

Change to the server working directory.
1. If the server is still running:
```
% cd `vovserverdir`
```
2. If the server is not running, find the directory:
```
% vovproject list -l | grep projectName
```
If necessary, shut down the server as shown below.
```
% vovproject stop projectName
```
In the server working directory, edit the setup.tcl file and change the value on the line that sets the environment variable VOV_HOST_NAME.
Log onto the new host.
Restart the project on the new host:
```
% vovproject start projectName
```
Clean up the registry. In the directory $VOVDIR/local/registry/user/, locate the file projectName@oldHostName which can be safely removed. There is another registry entry projectName@newHostName which can be kept.

For more information about the registry, refer to VOV Registry.