Understanding the State of Your System

Overview of SAS Management Console

As you administer the SAS Intelligence Platform, your primary tool will be 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.

Whenever the SAS Metadata Server is running, 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. The SAS Management Console user interface includes a Plug-ins tab and a Folders tab that you can use to access metadata, as described in the following topics.

About SAS Management Console Plug-ins

SAS Management Console is a framework in which a variety of plug-ins are installed. A plug-in is an application module that is designed to create and maintain metadata for a specific type of resource. For example, the Server Manager plug-in is used to create and update metadata to define SAS servers. Some plug-ins include additional functionality. For example, the Server Manager plug-in enables you to stop, pause, and resume servers and to monitor server activity.

Only certain users can view and use plug-ins. A user's access to plug-ins depends on which roles the user is assigned to and which capabilities are assigned to those roles (see Overview of Initial Roles, Groups, and Users).

If you are authorized to use plug-ins, then the Plug-ins tab appears in the left pane when you open SAS Management Console and connect to a metadata server, as shown in this example:

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The following table provides the name and purpose of each of the most frequently used SAS Management Console plug-ins. References to related documentation are also provided.

SAS Management Console Plug-ins
Plug-in Name	Plug-in Description
Authorization Manager	Define and maintain access rules to control how users and groups can access metadata definitions. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.
BI Lineage	Identify connections between BI objects in the SAS Folders tree. For details, see Using the BI Lineage Plug-in and the SAS Management Console Help. This plug-in is new with the November 2010 release of SAS Management Console.
Configuration Manager	View and modify configuration attributes for SAS applications including SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Financial Management, and SAS Strategic Performance Management. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
Data Library Manager	Create and maintain definitions for SAS libraries and database schemas. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Data Administration Guide.
Foundation Services Manager	View and modify deployment configurations for infrastructure and extension services that are used by applications such as SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
Map Service Manager	Create and maintain map service definitions that link cubes to ESRI ArcGIS map services so that ESRI Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial map information can be accessed and returned by an OLAP server when the cubes are queried. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
Metadata Manager	Perform administration tasks related to the SAS Metadata Server, including the following: stop, pause, resume, or reset the metadata server check the status of the metadata server and the metadata repositories create and manage metadata repositories create and execute jobs to back up or restore your metadata repositories
Publishing Framework	Create and maintain definitions for channels, package subscribers, group subscribers, and event subscribers. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
Schedule Manager	Create and maintain schedules for running jobs that are created in SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Web Report Studio. For details, see Scheduling in SAS.
Server Manager	Perform administration tasks related to SAS servers, including the following: check the status of servers and validate them to ensure that they are configured correctly stop, pause, quiesce, resume, or refresh the SAS object spawner or the SAS Table Server; and stop, pause, resume, or quiesce a process on a SAS OLAP Server, SAS Workspace Server, or SAS Stored Process Server connect to the metadata server, to components of SAS Application Servers, to the SAS object spawner, or to a SAS Table Server to perform monitoring activities Details about the preceding tasks are provided in this guide. You can also use the Server Manager plug-in to create and maintain definitions for servers. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide.
User Manager	Create and maintain definitions for users, groups, and roles. For details, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

Using the SAS Management Console Plug-ins

To use the plug-ins, follow these general steps:

To display the metadata objects and folders that are associated with a plug-in, click the plus sign next to the plug-in icon. The objects and folders are displayed in a navigation tree.
To expand a folder or object in the navigation tree, click the plus sign next to it.
To determine the actions that you can take with an item in the navigation tree (for example, a plug-in, a folder, or an object), right-click the item and select an action from the menu that appears.
To view the metadata definition for an object in the navigation tree, right-click the object and select Properties.
To obtain help for a plug-in, select the plug-in (or any object associated with the plug-in) in the navigation tree, and select Help Help on <plug-in name>.

Some of the plug-ins have wizards that assist you in creating new metadata objects. For example, Data Library Manager has a New Library Wizard that helps you create a new SAS library. To access the wizard, you expand the Data Library Manager node, right-click the SAS Libraries folder, and select New Library.

For detailed information about using SAS Management Console and its plug-ins, see the product Help and the applicable administration guides.

About the SAS Management Console Folders Tab

The Folders tab in SAS Management Console displays the hierarchy of SAS folders. These folders are used to store metadata for business intelligence content such as libraries, tables, jobs, cubes, information maps, and reports. The folders also store SAS system content that is not directly accessed by business users.

As a system administrator, you will use this view for tasks such as the following:

setting up a folder structure for your users
setting permissions on folders and objects
importing and exporting metadata and associated files (for example, when promoting content to production)

For a newly installed system, the folder organization is similar to the following:

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For details, see About the SAS Folder Structure.

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