The Platform Process Manager server, which is part of
Platform Suite for SAS, provides full-featured enterprise scheduling
capabilities, including features such as workload prioritization and
policy-based scheduling. The server enables you to schedule jobs using
a variety of recurrence criteria and dependencies on other jobs, time
events, or file events. You can use the Flow Manager application (also
part of Platform Suite for SAS) to manage scheduled jobs, including
deleting and stopping previously scheduled jobs.
Because
Platform Suite for SAS is a separate application, it requires an additional
license fee. It also requires you to perform additional tasks to install,
configure, and maintain all components of the application. However,
the components included with the application also provide functions
such as load balancing and submission of jobs to a grid.
The metadata
for a Process Manager Server includes the following information:
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the network address or host name
of a machine
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the port number for the server