Clients in the SAS Intelligence Platform

SAS Management Console

SAS Management Console is a Java application that provides a single point of control for administering your SAS servers and for managing metadata objects that are used throughout the SAS Intelligence Platform. You can use SAS Management Console to connect to the SAS Metadata Server and view and manage the metadata objects that are stored in the server's metadata repositories.

SAS Management Console uses an extensible plug-in architecture, enabling you to customize the console to support a wide range of administrative capabilities. The plug-ins that are provided with the application enable you to manage the following resources:

server definitions
library definitions
user, group, and definitions
resource access controls
metadata repositories
job schedules

The plug-ins also enable you to monitor server activity, back up the metadata server, and stop, pause, and resume servers. Only certain users can view and use plug-ins. A user's access to plug-ins depends on the which roles the user is assigned to and which capabilities are assigned to those roles.

In SAS Management Console, you can also view the folders that store metadata for business intelligence content such as libraries, tables, jobs, cubes, information maps, and reports. The folders include a personal folder for each individual user. For shared data, you can create a customized folder structure and assign appropriate permissions at each level in the folder hierarchy. Import and export wizards enable you to easily move or promote content from one part of the folder tree to another, or from one metadata server to another.

Note: Other client applications also display folders if they contain content that is relevant to the application and that the user has permission to view. [cautionend]

For more information, see the SAS Management Console Help, which is available from within the product. For detailed information about specific tasks that you can perform in SAS Management Console, see the administration guides for the SAS Intelligence Platform at http://support.sas.com/92administration.

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