What’s New in SAS Environment Manager 2.4
Overview
SAS Environment Manager
has the following new features and enhancements:
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SAS Environment Manager Service
Management Architecture has been added
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services that enable you to import
and export events have been added
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the ability to view and store a
snapshot of detailed system information has been added
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a facility for managing user definitions
in SAS metadata has been added
SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture
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 Extended Monitoring
implements best practices
for SAS Environment Manager by creating a predefined set of alerts,
resource groups, and best-practice metric configurations. This component
also provides the framework needed for SAS Environment Manager Service
Management Architecture by configuring the infrastructure of the SAS
Environment Manager Data Mart.
Audit, Performance, and Measurement (APM) ETL
collects information
from SAS logs, standardizes it, and stores it in the SAS Environment
Manager Data Mart, where it is used to populate stored process reports.
Agent-Collected Metric (ACM) ETL
uses information collected
about the computing resources (such as servers and disk storage),
standardizes it, and stores it in the SAS Environment Manager Data
Mart. The information is then used to populate stored process reports.
Solution kit framework
extends the capabilities
of SAS Environment Manager to support specific solutions or applications
by providing support for collecting and storing operational information
about the solution in the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart and for
using the associated reporting capabilities.
SAS Visual Analytics data feed
copies selected data
tables from the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart to a specified drop
zone directory. SAS Visual Analytics then automatically loads the
tables into the SAS Visual Analytics application.
Importing and Exporting Events
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
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.
Metadata for User Administration
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.
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Last updated: February 22, 2018