What’s New in SAS Environment Manager 2.4

SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture provides functions and capabilities that enable SAS Environment Manager to fit into a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In operation, SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture uses extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes to obtain metric data, convert it to a standard format, and load it into the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart. You can then leverage the data by using the supplied stored process reports and reporting tools or by using your own preferred reporting tools. SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture includes components that are delivered within these packages:

SAS Environment Manager provides services that enable you to import and export event data. Event importing provides a specified location and format for external applications or SAS code to write events to. When data is written to the specified location, SAS Environment Manager creates an event, which can then be handled just like any other event in the application. Event exporting operates in a similar manner. Every time an event occurs in SAS Environment Manager, the application creates an entry in a specified location, using a specified format. You can then configure third-party monitoring tools to monitor the location for new entries and handle the exported events.

Environment Snapshot contains a comprehensive listing of the system information in the SAS Environment Manager database. Environment Snapshot provides you with valuable information about your system. Environment Snapshot collects and displays the most current performance measures and configuration parameters from the SAS Environment Manager database, and also executes and gathers real-time usage information.

In addition, you can take a snapshot of the information, which saves all of the data in a text file. This file provides an easy way to communicate the status and configuration of your system when you are working with SAS Technical Support.

To make access distinctions and to track user activity, security systems must know who is making each request. User administration provides information that helps these systems make this determination. The SAS environment requires one external account ID for each user. The SAS environment uses its copy of this ID to establish a unique SAS identity for each user. All of a user's group memberships, role memberships, and permission assignments are associated with this SAS identity.

To access user administration features in SAS Environment Manager, select the Users module on the Administration tab. Your roles and permissions determine which user administration tasks you can perform.