Metric Chart Examples :: SAS(R) Environment Manager 2.5: User's Guide, Second Edition

Creating a Free Memory Chart

To create a chart of the free memory on a server and save the chart to be displayed by the Saved Chart portlet on your dashboard, follow these steps.

On the SAS Environment Manager menu bar, select ResourcesBrowse.
On the Resources page, select Platforms.
In the table of resources, click on the name of your server to display the resource detail page.
On the resource detail page, one of the displayed metric charts is Free Memory. Click on the name of the chart to display the Metric Chart page.
On the Metric Chart page, select Save Chart to Dashboards.
The Save Chart to Dashboards dialog box appears. Select the dashboards on which the saved chart should appear. Click Add to save the chart.

Note: The chart will not appear on your dashboard until you create a Saved Chart portlet. See Adding a Saved Charts Portlet for instructions on creating the portlet.

Creating a Number of Spawned Servers Chart

To create a chart of the current number of spawned servers and save the chart to be displayed by the Saved Chart portlet on your dashboard, follow these steps.

On the SAS Environment Manager menu bar, select ResourcesBrowseServers.
On the Resources page, in the All Server Types field, select SAS Object Spawner 9.4 and then click on the arrow at the right of the filter fields.
In the table of resources, click on the name of the object spawner to display the resource detail page.
On the resource detail page, one of the displayed metric charts is Current Servers. Click on the name of the chart to display the Metric Chart page.
On the Metric Chart page, select Save Chart to Dashboards.
The Save Chart to Dashboards dialog box appears. Select the dashboards on which the saved chart should appear. Click Add to save the chart.

Note: The chart will not appear on your dashboard until you create a Saved Chart portlet. See Adding a Saved Charts Portlet for instructions on creating the portlet.

Creating a Metadata Users Chart

To create a chart of the current number of users per minute of the SAS Metadata Server and save the chart to be displayed by the Saved Chart portlet on your dashboard, follow these steps.

On the SAS Environment Manager menu bar, select ResourcesBrowseServers.
On the Resources page, in the All Server Types field, select SAS Metadata Server 9.4 and then click on the arrow at the right of the filter fields.
In the table of resources, click on the name of the metadata server to display the resource detail page.
On the left side of the resource detail page, select All Metrics from the menu.
In the table of metrics, find Total Clients per Minute and position your mouse pointer over the information icon . The metric information tooltip appears.
On the tooltip, select View Full Chart. The Metric Chart page appears.
On the Metric Chart page, select Save Chart to Dashboards.
The Save Chart to Dashboards dialog box appears. Select the dashboards on which the saved chart should appear. Click Add to save the chart.

Note: The chart will not appear on your dashboard until you create a Saved Chart portlet. See Adding a Saved Charts Portlet for instructions on creating the portlet.

Adding a Saved Charts Portlet

The Saved Charts portlet displays a rotation of all of the resource metric charts that you have saved. You can create this portlet before or after you save charts. If you create the portlet before saving charts, the saved charts will automatically appear in the portlet as you save them. If you create the portlet after saving charts, the saved charts will not appear on your dashboard until you create the portlet.

Follow these steps to add a Save Charts portlet.

Click Dashboard on the menu bar.
On the left side of the Dashboard page, select Saved Charts in the Add Content to this column field and click the Add icon .

A Saved Charts portlet is added to your Dashboard and automatically displays a slideshow of the charts that you previously saved.
To change how long each chart is displayed or the time period displayed on the chart, click the Configuration icon .