The SAS IT Resource Management client includes an
Adapter Setup wizard. This wizard enables you to define
and create staging jobs, aggregation jobs, information map jobs, and
reporting jobs that process the raw data for an IT resource. These
jobs include predefined configurations that are based on industry
intelligence that represents a best estimate about the types of aggregations
and reports that most sites need for analysis.
The
Adapter
Setup wizard creates reporting jobs that produce reports
that are good choices for many users. To examine the reports that
SAS IT Resource Management provides, you can use the
Adapter
Setup wizard to process a sample set of data and then
create and run the resulting report jobs. You can then use Gallery
Manager to view the reports that are generated.
If the supplied reports
do not meet all of the specific reporting needs for your environment,
then you can identify the modifications that you want to make to the
reporting jobs. You can then work with the corresponding supplied
SAS Enterprise Guide projects and reporting architecture to implement
your modifications.
For more information,
see How to Create or Modify Your Own Batch Reports.Note: If your site does not process
data from any of the data sources for which SAS IT Resource Management
provides an adapter, then you can use an alternate data source to
process a sample set of data to run the
Adapter Setup wizard and view the reports that it generates. For example, some
data sources that are commonly available in IT enterprises are SAR
for UNIX systems, SNMP for IP networks, or a trial license of Demand
Technology Performance Sentry for Windows systems.
After the wizard creates
the appropriate jobs, you can schedule and run each as needed. The
jobs process the raw data in a manner that is specified by or based
on a selected adapter and domain category.