System Configuration

This graphical client provides access to the SAS Visual Process Orchestration Web Client and other available clients such as the SAS Job Monitor.

This web client provides a graphical user interface for the creation, modification, and execution of orchestration jobs.

The SAS Job Monitor displays status information for orchestration job runs. The SAS Job Monitor is provided as part of the SAS Environment Manager. The SAS Job Monitor collects information from specialized log files and processes that information into displays and alerts.

This critical mid-tier server performs a variety of services that enable authentication, authorization, and data source locks on behalf of the SAS Visual Process Orchestration Design Server, Runtime Server, and Web Client.

To create, modify, or delete an orchestration job, the SAS web client sends a request to the Design Server port. Listening at that port is a SAS Object Spawner. The Object Spawner assigns an available instance of the Design Server to the SAS web client. If the orchestration job already exists, then the orchestration job is copied from the SAS Content Server. The Design Servers are maintained in a pool. When the SAS web client breaks its connection, the SAS Object Spawner returns the Design Server to the pool for eventual reassignment to another SAS web client.

The Runtime Server listens for SOAP requests from SAS web clients. When a client requests the execution of an orchestration job, the job is copied from the SAS Content Server. The Runtime Server then passes the job to an available execution process, along with any input variables. The execution process is part of a pool of available execution processes. When the job run is complete, the execution process sends any output variables to the Runtime Server, and the execution service returns to the pool. The Runtime Server sends any output variables to the requesting SAS web client.

The SAS Metadata Server maintains the SAS Metadata Repository and communicates with SAS clients and servers. The repository contains metadata definitions for all of the users, groups, servers, jobs, and data objects that surround the process of job orchestration. The SAS Metadata Server also works with the SAS Web Application Server to authenticate and authorize users, in coordination with network authentication providers.

The SAS Content Server stores all orchestration jobs. The jobs are retrieved for execution on the host of the Runtime Server.

The DataFlux Data Management Server is one type of server that can execute the component jobs and real-time services that are called during the execution of orchestration jobs.

This rich client builds component jobs and real-time services, which are generally stored and executed on DataFlux Data Management Servers.

This rich client can provide component jobs and real-time services for orchestration jobs.

This administrative client provides access to the metadata definitions in the SAS Metadata Repository and enables the control of SAS servers. Administrators can stop and start certain SAS servers and edit server properties that are stored on the SAS Metadata Server.