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The relevant entry point to fresh Intel Advisor tutorials is Getting Started, where you can pick and choose appropriate sub-tutorials. Vectorization Advisor sub-tutorial for Linux can be found here. It precisely says that:

-qopt-report=5 : necessary for version 15.0 of the Intel compiler; unnecessary for version 16.0 and higher

With regards to -vec, -simd, -openmp, the tutorial slightly confuses flags needed for proper Advisor functioning (-g, -O2, optionally -opt-report) vs. flags needed for "proper" Compiler functioning ( -vec, -simd and -openmp). The later ones are just flags controlling compiler's vector code generation, they have nothing to do with Advisor profiling capabilities so you may or may not use them.

To give you deeper understanding: there is an important feature in Advisor, which is called Intel Advisor Survey "Compiler Integration". This feature leverages the data relatively similar but not identical to opt-report. In order to make this feature working you need

1. Using Intel Coimpiler 14.x beta, 15.x, 16.x or 17.x
2. -g (enable debug info) and -O2 or higher (enable some optimization)
3. Optional (for Intel Compiler 15.x only) -qopt-report5

All other features in Intel Advisor work equally well regardless of Compiler version (item 1 above) or opt-report and versions (item 3 above) , but they all still require -g (part of option 2 above). -O2 is not needed for some features, but it is typically useless to deal with -O0 or -O1 compiled binaries when analyzing performance aspects.