The ITRM
Report Definition 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 Report Definition task creates the performance
report definition, you can use the Performance Report 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 ITRM Report Center can locate, subset, and filter all of
the reports individually. This metadata includes values that you specify
as filters when using ITRM Report Center 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 ITRM Report Center.
After you use the ITRM
Report Definition task to define and create a report definition, it
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 Performance Report 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 ITRM Report Center 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 and
Add
Domain Category wizards use these report definitions
in the report jobs that they create. You can use these supplied report
definitions instead of, or in addition to, the report definitions
that you create with the ITRM Report Definition 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.