Introduction

SAS SPD Server 4.5 provides a performance monitoring server called spdsperf. The SPD Server Performance Server is an optional component and is not required for normal operation of SPD Server.

The purpose of the SPD Server Performance Server is to gather SPD Server process performance information and to post it to the SPD Server Management section of the SAS Management Console application. The SPD Server performance information consists of memory and resource allocations by users, and SPD Server processes spawned by an SPD Server Name Server. All SPD Server users must connect to an SPD Server Name Server before their SPD Server session is spawned. Each SPD Server Name Server owns a dynamic family of subordinate SPD Server processes that are created and terminated by SPD Server users and jobs.

The SPD Server Performance server information is stored in the SAS Management Console. The SAS Management Console has a folder that is reserved for SPD Server management. The SPD Management folder is a child to the Environmental Management folder in SAS Management Console. When you expand the SPD Management folder, the bottom-most utility is the SPD Process Profiler. When you highlight the SPD Process Profiler utility, the process information table that is located in the right panel displays performance summary statistics. Each row in the performance summary statistics table provides information about a single SPD Server process that was spawned on the SPD Server Name Server residing at the specified PID, or port ID.

Note: SPD Server Performance Server is currently not available for the Windows or Linux X64 platforms.

The display of memory and resource allocations in the SPD Process Profiler allows SPD Server Administrators to use the SAS Management Console as a handy view point to review which SPD Server processes are occupying host computing resources, how the resources are distributed across users and processes at a given point in time, and whether the resource uses and distributions are appropriate for your computing environment.

The SPD Server Performance Server is not limited to displaying its performance summary statistics in the SAS Management Console application. You can also configure the SPD Server Performance Server, when you launch it, to create text log files that can be saved locally on the SPD Server host machine. SPD Server ships with a PERL utility called process_perf_log that can parse the log that was created by the SPD Server Performance Server.