Deciding Which Components to Initialize

After you have used the SAS Deployment Wizard to install SAS Environment Manager, you must perform additional steps to configure resources (either automatically or manually), create the dashboard, and enable SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture. The following steps outline the process.

After the installation process has completed, sign on to SAS Environment Manager. The application autodiscovers the resources in your environment.
Decide whether you want to enable SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring. If you enable extended monitoring, SAS Environment Manager is automatically set up by using tuned resource configurations, alert definitions, and metrics. The SAS Environment Manager Data Mart infrastructure is also configured, so if you plan to use the data mart, you must enable extended monitoring. If you choose to not enable extended monitoring, you must configure resources and define alerts manually.
If you choose to use extended monitoring, run the command to enable extended monitoring. See Initializing SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring for more information..
If you choose not to use extended monitoring, you must manually configure the resources in SAS Environment Manager and manually define alerts. See Manual Setup Examples for examples.
Set up your dashboard. See Using the Dashboard.
If you decided to use SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture, you must decide what type of data you want to populate the data mart with. APM ETL provides forensic data from SAS logs, ACM ETL provides real-time data from the computing resources in your environment, and solution kits ETL provide data specific to individual SAS solutions. If you initialize and enable extended monitoring and all three ETL components, you will obtain the most complete and comprehensive view of your system. However, initializing all of these components does consume more resources and impact performance.
If you are populating the data mart with forensic data from SAS logs, initialize and enable APM ETL. See Enabling and Initializing the APM ETL. You can perform this step at any time, not just during the initial setup.
If you are populating the data mart with current data from the computing resources in your SAS environment, enable ACM ETL. See Enabling ACM ETL. You can perform this step at any time, not just during the initial setup.