Components

The SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP consists of the following components:
SAP servers
collect performance data the standard way. Additional Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) functions are installed on the SAP servers to support the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP and to allow indirect calls of standard SAP ABAP functions.
SAS Management Console client
defines the SAP servers that are accessed by the SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP.
SAS IT Resource Management client
provides technology that the SAS IT Resource Management Adapter for SAP uses to generate and submit code to the SAS Application Server.
SAS Metadata Server
SAS IT Resource Management and SAS Management Console do not store data locally. They communicate with the SAS Metadata Server, which stores and retrieves metadata from the jobs and tables in SAS IT Resource Management and SAS Data Integration Studio.
SAS ITRM application server
executes the code generated by SAS IT Resource Management. The following software must be installed on the SAS application server:
  • Base SAS software
  • SAS IT Resource Management server-side software
  • SAS Solutions Adapter software (includes the server component of the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP: SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3 software)
  • Web server to deploy reports for common access
SAS IT Resource Management transformation (new)
In this release of SAS IT Resource Management Adapter, a new transformation named Libref Collector transformation is defined in the initialization job 0010 Step 1 Select Single SAP Server.
SAS code files
installed on the SAS Application Server. These open-source files are automatically copied to a location where they can be modified if necessary.
SAS macros
include simple macros that are provided as open-source code as well as complex macros that are provided without source code so that SAS can maintain them easily.
SAS libraries
provide storage for administration and data tables.