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.
FlowTracer is derived from the system "VOV" originally developed at UC-Berkeley. The word "VOV" is not an acronym, but can be
thought of as a contraction of the word "evolve".
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.
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.
Time Specifications
Some VOV procedures and commands accept as input a time specification, which is a string that contains a mixture of digits and the letters s m h d w.