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What's New in SAS Management Console 9.1.2 and 9.1.3
Overview
SAS Management Console is a Java application that provides a single point of control for managing resources that are used throughout the SAS Intelligence Platform. Instead of using a separate administrative interface for each application in your computing environment, you can use the single interface in SAS Management Console to perform the administrative tasks that are required for creating and maintaining an integrated environment across multiple platforms. SAS Management Console enables you to manage the following resources:
- server definitions
- library definitions
- user definitions
- resource access controls
- metadata repositories
- SAS licenses
- job schedules
- XML maps
SAS Management Console works by creating and maintaining metadata definitions for each computing resource or control. These metadata definitions are stored in a repository on a SAS Metadata Server, which makes them available for use by other applications. For more information, see the SAS 9.1.3 Management Console: User's Guide.
The 9.1.3 release of SAS Management Console provides support for the SAS Scalable Performance Data (SPD) Server, enables you to import data tables into a library, places new libraries and imported tables into folders, enables you to schedule flows using operating system scheduling servers, provides support for grid computing, updates resource templates, and changes the source for metadata import and export bridges.
General Enhancements
SAS Management Console now contains the following enhancements:
- Support is added for the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server by enabling you to define SAS SPD Server libraries, servers, and schemas. You must run the Upgrade Metadata function to add support for the SAS SPD Server.
- You can import data tables to SAS Management Console libraries by using the Import Tables wizard. The wizard lets you register existing SAS data sets in the metadata repository.
- When you create a new library, it is now automatically placed in a folder with the same name as the library. Imported data tables are stored in the folder for the library to which they were imported.
- Resource templates for server, library, and schema definitions have been changed. Use the Upgrade Metadata function to apply the new resource templates to your metadata server. If you are upgrading a metadata server from SAS 9.1 to SAS 9.1.3, the resource template changes in SAS 9.1.2 are applied before the SAS 9.1.3 changes are applied.
- Flows can be scheduled using operating system scheduling services. You define an operating system scheduling server in SAS Management Console, then use the Schedule Manager plug-in to submit flows to the server. The server uses operating system commands to schedule and run the flows.
- Support is added for a grid computing configuration. Resource templates have been added for the SAS Grid Server and the Grid Monitoring Server to enable you to create a grid computing environment. A resource template has been added for the Process Manager server, which is used to schedule jobs in a grid computing environment. The SAS Grid Manager plug-in has been added to enable you to monitor the performance of a grid and to cancel jobs.
- Metadata bridges, which are used when importing or exporting metadata, are now obtained from your SAS Account Executive or from support.sas.com. Metadata bridges provide the ability to import from or export to a variety of metadata formats.