CLI Commands
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.
CLI commands are case insensitive. For example, timetolerance and
timeTolerance represent the same command. The keyword
expressions AND, OR and NOT are also case insensitive.
Note: Resource expressions can
be entered as lists in place of OR.
For example:
% nc run -r License:foo,User:abc -- sleep 10 Common CLI Commands
- vovproject
- Create, start, enable, stop a project.
- vovconsole
- Start the Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- vovcheck
- Run many checks on the setup of VOV.
- vls
- List the status of the files with respect to the dependency graph.
- vsc
- Show the consequences of changing one node.
- vsh
- Report the history of a file or a job.
- vsi
- Report basic the information about the graph.
- vsm
- Monitor taskers, jobs, resources.
- vsr
- Issue a retrace request.
- vst
- Show tools executed in the current directory.
- vsx
- Show inputs and outputs of nodes.
- vsy
- Show why (Y) a node is not VALID.
- vsz
- Zap away bad nodes.
Main User Commands
- vovblast
- Simultaneously remove and forget files
- vovbrowser
- Help start the browser interface by computing the port number for a project.
- vovbuild
- Build complex flows.
- vovcleandir
- Eliminate old log files that are no longer part of the flow.
- vovcleanup
- Eliminate old log files from a host, a project.
- vovfind
- Find file nodes in the graph.
- vovfire
- Execute a job "here and now".
- vovforget
- Forget objects in the in-memory database: nodes, sets, users, etc.
- vovkill
- Kill a process and all of its children.
- vovjobqueue
- Show all jobs in the queue.
- vovrename
- Rename nodes in the graph.
- vovset
- Create, edit, forget sets.
- vovsh
- The main Altair Accelerator client, with extended Tcl interpreter.
- vovshow
- Show things: users, buckets, nodes, sets, etc.
- vovstop
- Stop things: jobs, projects, retraces, ...
- vovtouch
- Toggle status of nodes.
- vovversion
- Show the version of the current installation.
Administration Commands
- vovarch
- Print architecture of current host.
- vovenv
- Useful to build environments.
- vovequiv
- Check equivalence rules for file names.
- vovinit.bat
- Setup the Windows NT shell.
- vovremove
- Remove files intelligently.
- vovresourced
- Read the resources.tcl file.
- vovserver
- The main vovserver.
- vovserverdir
- Show the working directory of the server.
- vovservermgr
- Modify settings in the running vovserver.
- vovsetupuser
- Setup the user account (UNIX only).
- vovtasker
- The main executable for a vovtaskers.
- vovtaskermgr
- Start and stop taskers.
- vovtaskerroot
- A tasker that can switch user ID (UNIX only).
Other Commands
- vovshowconnection
- Show connection path between two nodes in the graph.
- vovcheckfiles
- Force a check of all timestamps.
- vovflowcompiler
- Compile a flow to be included into the Flow Library.
- vovprop
- Add, modify and delete properties on files and jobs.
- vovrestoretrace
- Restore a corrupted graph either from a backup or from a saved copy.
- vovwait4server
- Wait for the server to be operative.
- vovxrsh
- Open a new
xtermwith the DISPLAY variable properly set (UNIX only).