SAS Environment Manager
Service Management Architecture provides functions and capabilities
that enable SAS Environment Manager to fit into a service-oriented
architecture (SOA). The package implements best practices for resource
monitoring, automates and extends the application’s auditing
and user monitoring capabilities, and follows industry standards to
enable servers to use Application Response Measurement (ARM). These
functions enable SAS Environment Manager to function as a key component
in providing service-level management in a strategy that is based on the IT Infrastructure
Library (ITIL).
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 Service
Management Architecture consists of the following components:
SAS Environment Manager Data Mart
This is the heart of
the Service Management Architecture. The
SAS Environment Manager Data Mart consists of preconfigured tables
that are used to store monitored data. The collected data is processed
so that it is stored in a standard format, making it easy to run reports
and perform analysis. The infrastructure for the SAS Environment Manager
Data Mart is provided in the SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring
package.
Audit, Performance and Measurement (APM) ETL
When this component is initialized, it collects information
from SAS logs, standardizes it, and stores it in the SAS Environment
Manager Data Mart. The collected data is used to populate stored process
reports that are provided as part of SAS Environment Manager Service
Management Architecture. The data is also available for custom reporting
and analysis.
Agent-Collected Metrics (ACM) ETL
When this component is initialized, it uses information that was collected about
the computing resources (such as servers and disk storage), standardizes
it, and stores it in the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart. The collected
data is used to populate stored process reports that are provided
as part of SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture.
The data is also available for custom reporting and analysis.
Report Center
The Report Center provides
a convenient access point for the reports that are provided as part
of SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture. Once one
or more of the ETL components have been initialized and enabled, data
is available in the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart. This data is
then used to produce the predefined reports in the Report Center.
The Report Center is not available until the data mart contains data.
solution kit framework
The solution kit framework
can extend the capabilities of SAS Environment Manager to support
specific solutions or applications. The framework includes support
for collecting and storing operation information about the solution
in the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart and for using the associated
reporting capabilities.
SAS Visual Analytics data feed
Data from the SAS Environment
Manager Data Mart can be easily loaded into SAS Visual Analytics.
If the data feed option is enabled in SAS Environment Manager, selected
data tables from the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart are copied
to a specified drop zone directory. SAS Visual Analytics can then
automatically load the tables from the drop zone into the application.