HP Scalable Visualization Array Version 1.1 System Administration Guide

Tag Names
Tag names represent general characteristics of the SVA that are needed or useful for allocating resources,
launching jobs, and managing the way jobs execute. Tags names have the following characteristics:
• Tag names are case sensitive.
• Tag names must begin in column one.
• Tag names cannot include spaces or special characters.
• The tag name and equal sign cannot have any space between them. Tag names equate with tag values.
See “Section and Tag Contents” (pg. 12) for examples.
Tag Values
Tag values specify a tag value or option. Tag values have the following characteristics:
• Values must be enclosed in quotation marks (“ “).
• Values returned by the API do not return quotation marks.
• The tag value and the equal sign cannot have space between them.
• You can include a quotation mark (") in a value by immediately preceding it with a backslash (\).
• Boolean values are yes or no (case sensitive).
See “Section and Tag Contents” (pg. 12) for examples.
INCLUDE Statement
You can use INCLUDE statements to give the Configuration Data Files a more modular organization and to
customize the Configuration Data Files in site-specific ways; for example, for Chromium and CAVElib. In
this way, the customized sections can be stored in separate files and included in the Site and User
Configuration Data Files.
You can also use INCLUDE statements is to capture site-specific changes to the Site Configuration File. Any
changes made to the Site Configuration File itself are lost if the file is regenerated using the svaconfigure
Utility.
• INCLUDE statements must begin in column one.
• The file name following an INCLUDE statement must be inside quotation marks (").
• INCLUDE statements are only valid in the Site Configuration File.
• If the name is not fully qualified, then the relative path is assumed to be /opt/sva/etc/.
The following code example illustrates the use of the INCLUDE statement within a Configuration Data
File:
# Comment
[SVA_SECTION]
TAG="data with spaces"
INCLUDE "file_name"
Section and Tag Contents
There are three Configuration Data Files that interact to provide input to a job whenever you start a
visualization session:
• Site Configuration File.
• User Configuration File.
• Job Settings File.
Because the three files overlap in several (but not all) of their settings, a hierarchy exists for the use of values
specified from the command line or existing in more than one file. This hierarchy is as follows:
12 SVA System Administration Tasks