The SAS
Management Console is a Java application that provides a single point
of control for managing multiple SAS application resources. Rather
than using a separate administrative interface for each application
in your enterprise intelligence environment, you can use SAS Management
Console's single interface to perform the administrative tasks required
to create and maintain an integrated environment.
SAS Management
Console manages resources and controls by creating and maintaining
metadata definitions for entities such as:
Metadata
definitions that are created through SAS Management Console are stored
in a repository or on a SAS Metadata Server where they are available
for other applications to use. For example, you can use SAS Management
Console to create a metadata definition for a SAS library that specifies
information such as the libref, path, and engine type (such as sasspds).
After SAS Management Console stores the metadata definition for the
library in the repository on the SAS Metadata Server, any other application
can access the definition to access the specified library.
The SAS
Management Console application is a framework. The metadata definitions
are created using Java plug-ins, application modules that are designed
to create metadata for a specific type of resource.
For example,
administrators can use the SAS Management Console to configure SPD
Server user and group passwords and ACLs instead of using the traditional
SPD Server
psmgr utility and PROC SPDO statements.
The SAS
Management Console for SPD Server 4.5 is installed with the SAS 9.2
Management Console.