What Are the SAS ARM Interface Features?

The SAS ARM interface uses the following features to measure and log application availability, performance, usage, and transaction response time:

• ARM agent, which is an executable program that contains an implementation of the ARM API

• ARM appender, which processes ARM transaction events and sends the events to a specified output destination

• ARM macros, which you strategically place in your SAS programs to define, start, and stop ARM data collection

• ARM system options:

  • ARMAGENT=, which specifies an executable module or keyword

  • ARMLOC=, which specifies the location of an ARM log

  • ARMSUBSYS=, which specifies whether to initialize the ARM subsystems

• default correlators, which are used to track parent and child transactions

• default user metrics, which are used to measure start, update, and stop times

• performance macros, which contain default user metrics

• SAS logging facility, which enables more flexibility and control of the ARM log destinations and message formats

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