How Gallery Manager Works

Gallery Manager is a Web-based application that enables you to organize, view, and share SAS IT Resource Management reports that are stored on the SAS Content Server.

Organizing Reports

You can organize SAS IT Resource Management reports with the following two components:

Galleries

A gallery is a group of reports that share common filter values. You can organize SAS IT Resource Management reports by creating a gallery that includes all of the reports that meet a specific criterion. For example, you might create a gallery to include all available reports for a particular machine, adapter data source, or keyword.

Gallery Manager also enables you to further subset or filter the reports in a gallery for viewing. Thus, you can quickly view a smaller set of reports in a gallery to measure and analyze the utilization, availability, performance, and statistical trends of IT resources for your enterprise.
Gallery Folders

A gallery folder is a container for galleries and other gallery folders. These folders function like typical folders in a tree. You can use these folders to group related galleries and gallery folders. For example, you might create a single gallery folder to include all of your galleries for DT Perf Sentry reports.

Viewing Reports

Gallery Manager provides three gallery views that enable you to view and sort the reports in different ways:

The Table view displays the reports and their associated metadata in a grid. You can quickly scan these reports for similarities and double-click an individual report to view a large image of it in a separate browser window.

A Gallery in the Table View
The Thumbnail view displays a thumbnail of each report and enables you to minimize, expand, and arrange the reports in the gallery.

A Gallery in the Thumbnail View
The Flow view displays the reports as moveable pages so you can navigate through a sequence of reports that are stacked together.

A Gallery in the Flow View

Copying and E-mailing Reports

Gallery Manager enables you to copy reports of particular interest into Favorites folders. Until deleted manually, report copies in the Favorites folders are saved on the SAS Content Server in a physical folder that is unique to each Gallery Manager user. The report copies in the Favorites folders are not purged, expired, or updated as part of any subsequent executions of their associated report jobs. You can e-mail the reports that are in Favorites folders.