Administrator Tasks Using SAS Management Console :: SAS(R) IT Resource Management 3.5: Reporting Guide

Reset the Maximum Number of Reports to Be Returned from the Create Gallery Filters

When you create a gallery in ITRM Report Center, you use primary and secondary filters to subset the reports that are on the SAS Content Server. By default, primary filters must reduce the number of reports to no more than 100,000 before you can continue. (The next step enables you to subset the reports further with secondary filters.)

Secondary filters must reduce the number of reports to no more than 3,000. In some cases, when galleries are created, the total number of reports returned from the primary and secondary filters might exceed 3,000 (or the SecondaryReportCount value). If so, then the reports that exceed the 3,000 limit are omitted from the gallery.

Note: The default SecondaryReportCount of 3,000 reports can be changed by a SAS administrator. Regardless of the value specified for this parameter, however, an absolute maximum of 5,000 reports, enforced by ITRM Report Center, can be displayed for a single gallery.

The default limits are specified to help manage the size of galleries to avoid unnecessarily large report sets that make it difficult to locate specific reports. However, you can specify the default limits to meet the needs of your organization if you need larger or smaller galleries.

To specify your own default limits, perform the following steps:

Open SAS Management Console with administrator sign-in credentials. (To update the default report limits for the primary and secondary filters, use the SAS Administrative ID.)
On the Plug-ins tab, select Application ManagementConfiguration ManagerSAS Application Infrastructure.

Note: The Configuration Manager is installed as part of the SAS web infrastructure client. If you do not see this plug-in in SAS Management Console, then you can install it with the Software Deployment wizard. To do so, select Install Additional SoftwareSAS Configuration Manager.
Expand SAS Application Infrastructure.
Right-click ITRM Report Center 3.5 and select Properties.
On the Advanced tab, the following window appears:

Advanced Tab of ITRM Report Center Properties
Then specify the following parameters:
- itrmrc.PrimaryReportCount specifies the limit for primary filters.
- itrmrc.SecondaryReportCount specifies the limit for secondary filters.
  
  Note: The value for these parameters can be any positive integer.
Click OK. Restart ITRM Report Center.

Reset the Number of Items to Be Included in the Watch List

By default, the number of items that can appear on the watch list of the Home workspace is 25. To reset that number, perform the following steps:

Open SAS Management Console with administrator credentials. (To update the default report limits for the primary and secondary filters, use the SAS Administrative ID.)
On the Plug-ins tab, select Application ManagementConfiguration ManagerSAS Application Infrastructure.

Note: The Configuration Manager is installed as part of the SAS web infrastructure client. If you do not see this plug-in in SAS Management Console, then you can install it with the Software Deployment wizard. To do so, select Install Additional SoftwareSAS Configuration Manager.
Expand SAS Application Infrastructure.
Right-click ITRM Report Center 3.5 and select Properties.
On the Advanced tab, the following window appears:

Advanced Tab of ITRM Report Center Properties
Specify the following parameter:
- WatchListItemCount specifies the limit for watch list items.
Click OK. The change takes effect immediately.

Note: You can use this method to increase or decrease the number of items in the watch list.

Update the List of Available Alerts

At installation, SAS IT Resource Management supplies a list of notification types. This list is accessible to a SAS administrator. You can change the list of available alerts that are presented in this window.

CAUTION:

Exercise caution with this procedure.

Removing alerts might adversely affect users who depend on receiving existing alerts.

To update the list of available alerts, perform the following steps:

Sign in to SAS Management Console as the SAS administrator.
In the left pane, navigate to the Application Management section. Click Configuration Manager to open it. Right-click IT Resource Management 3.5 and select Properties.
Select the Advanced tab. The IT Resource Management 3.5 Properties dialog box appears.

Application Management Properties Dialog Box

The list of available alerts is shown on the itrm.AlertEvents line of this dialog box. As the SAS administrator, you can edit the ITRM AlertEvents and AlertPriority items in the Property Value column shown in the previous display.
Click the Lock icon () on the itrm.AlertEvents line to unlock that property.

Unlocking the itrm.Alert.Event Property
Double-click the Property Value field for the itrm.Alert.Event property.
Position your cursor at the beginning of the field and enter your new alert. Alerts must be separated by semicolons.

Note: Alerts must begin with this text: ITRM.EXCEPTION.. For example, your new alert might be coded as this: ITRM.EXCEPTION.NEWALERT.
Click the Unlock icon () to lock the property. Click OK.

Add a User-Defined Report Occurrence to ITRM Report Center

To add a user-defined report occurrence such as StartofQtr or StartofYear as filter options to use in ITRM Report Center, perform the following steps:

Open SAS Management Console with SAS administrator login credentials.
On the Plug-ins tab, select Application ManagementConfiguration ManagerSAS Application Infrastructure.

Note: The Configuration Manager is installed as part of the SAS web infrastructure client. If you do not see this plug-in in SAS Management Console, then you can install it with the Software Deployment wizard. To do so, select Install Additional SoftwareSAS Configuration Manager.

Adding the columns in SAS Management Console makes them available in ITRM Report Center. However, you can only select from them if there are reports in SAS Content Server that contain these values. Therefore, you can add any label if you also use it in your reports.
Expand SAS Application Infrastructure.
Right-click ITRM Report Center 3.5 and select Properties.
On the Advanced tab, add the user-defined report occurrence to the itrmrc.DateByVariables parameter. As shown in the following example, you can add StartOfQtr and StartOfYear to the Property value field.

Note: SAS IT Resource Management is installed with these BY variables in place on this tab: Date, StartOfWeek, and StartOfMonth.

Advanced Tab of the Properties Window
Restart the ITRM Report Center web application.
In the Create Gallery and Edit Gallery wizards, you can select these additional date-based periods to use as filters for the gallery that you are working with. Therefore, you can display the corresponding date-based BY variable in that gallery.

Note: To do so, you must have reports in the SAS Content Server that contains these date-related BY variables.

Select More Time Periods in the ITRM Report Center Wizards

The new report occurrence options filter reports that contain the corresponding value in their BY variables list. Scroll down to see the other date-related BY variables.