ARM Appender Configuration Parameters

The ARM appender includes unique configuration parameters to modify the appender execution behavior. These parameters are configured within the SAS logging facility configuration file. The location of the file is specified using the LOGCONFIGLOC= SAS system option. The syntax within the configuration file is:

<param name="<config.param>" value="<config_value>"

The following table lists the SAS logging facility ARM appender configuration parameters, values, and descriptions:

SAS 9.3 ARM Appender Configuration Parameters

Configuration Parameter	Value	Description
Agent	value="" value="libarm4"	The value represents the name of an external ARM 4.0 agent library that receives ARM events. See your vendor documentation.
Encoding	value=""	The value represents the character set encoding to be used for strings passed to and calls received by the ARM agent library. The default is the native Unicode character set for the host or UTF-8 as required by the ARM standards.
GetTimes	value="TRUE" value="FALSE"	The TRUE value enables the appender to compute transaction response times. The default value is FALSE.
ManageCorrelators	value="TRUE" value="FALSE"	The default value is TRUE. This option specifies whether the ARM appender manages transaction correlation. Setting the value to TRUE enables automatic transaction correlation. Setting this value to TRUE might affect existing benchmarks for ARM 2.0 records. Setting the value to FALSE enables the application to manage transaction correlation.
AppName	value="SAS"	The value represents the name of the application. The maximum length of the value is 127 characters. This value is passed to the ARM_REGISTER_APPLICATION() function call. To override this value, specify the SAS start-up option LOGAPPLNAME=value. The default value is SAS.
GroupName	value="user ID"	The value represents the name of a group of application instances, if any. Application instances that are started with a common run-time purpose are good candidates for using the same group name. The maximum length of the value is 256 characters. This value is passed to the ARM_START_APPLICATION() function call. The default value is the current user ID if available, otherwise NULL.