The ITRM Gallery task
enables you to use SAS Enterprise Guide to specify and create report
definitions. These report definitions include all of the metadata
and SAS code from a given branch of your SAS Enterprise Guide project.
After the ITRM Gallery task creates the report definition, you can
use the Gallery transformation that is available in the SAS IT Resource
Management client to include the report definition in your report
jobs.
Report definitions provide
greater flexibility when executing and specifying your report jobs
and output. For example, report definitions perform the following
actions:
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run in a report job that can execute
on any SAS application server such as Windows, UNIX variants, and
z/OS. This provides the flexibility of using the batch capabilities
of enterprise class systems instead of a Windows client when running
the large number of reports that are necessary for IT performance
management and capacity planning activities.
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attach metadata to each report
so that the Gallery Manager can locate, subset, and filter all of
the reports individually. This metadata includes values that you specify
as filters when using the Gallery Manager to view and sort only a
portion of the available reports.
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create separate pages, metadata,
and filters for each report so that every report can be easily searched
within the Gallery Manager.
After you use the ITRM
Gallery task to define and create a report definition, the report
definition is stored on the SAS Metadata Server. You can use the SAS
IT Resource Management client to access the report definition later
and include it in a Gallery transformation that is part of a report
job. When the report job executes, the report definition generates
reports and report metadata that are written to the SAS Content Server.
You can then use the Gallery Manager to view these reports or subsets
of these reports.
In addition to enabling
you to create your own report definitions, SAS IT Resource Management
supplies report definitions that were generated from the supplied
projects in SAS Enterprise Guide. The supplied report definitions
provide extensive domain intelligence about IT resources for the supported
adapters. The
Adapter Setup wizard uses these
report definitions in the report jobs that it creates. You can use
these supplied report definitions instead of or in addition to the
report definitions that you create with the ITRM Gallery task. The
supplied report definitions are loaded into a predefined folder for
supplied report definitions on the SAS Metadata Server after SAS IT
Resource Management is installed.
For more information about supplied projects in SAS Enterprise
Guide, see SAS Enterprise Guide Projects Supplied by SAS IT Resource Management.