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SAS 9.2 Integration with IBM ITM 6 New
SAS 9.2 integration package with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6, using Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) and Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS).

SAS 9.2 Audit and Performance Measurement
Sample suite of SAS programs and utilties that customers may deploy which provides a rich set of reports for regulatory audit requirements, performance assessment and status reporting for SAS 9.2 Enterprise BI.

SAS 9.2 Deployment Tester, AIX System Tuning
Sample set of SAS 9.2 Deployment Tester programs to query the AIX operating system and report on configuration parameters, for optimizing SAS Enterprise BI servers.

SAS 9.2 Grid Manager® High Availability (pdf,0.8Mb)
Paper on SAS 9.2 Grid Manager support for High Availability (HA) environments. Use the capabilities of SAS Grid Manager to provide HA for critical analytic services such as the SAS Metadata Server in a grid enabled environment.

SAS 9.1.3 Enterprise BI Migration to SAS 9.2 for AIX (pdf,1.1Mb)
This paper demonstrates how to migrate a SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.2. The SAS 9.2 virtual environment may then be fully tested in a non-production state, while fully protecting the availability of the 9.1.3 production framework.

SAS 9.1.3 Usage Measurement: Request Package (tar,055 Mb)
Sample package to create usage reports for SAS 9.1.3 SP4 EBI Server environments, using ARM 2.0 metrics. Adopted from the SAS Global Forum Presentation, Session 311-2008

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Enterprise Management Integration

The Enterprise Management Integration focus area is organized to provide customers and partners with tips, techniques and tools that allow SAS®9 BI applications to integrate and interface with vendor enterprise IT system management facilities. The key areas of focus and goals for Enterprise Management Integration include:

• Availability Management: Optimize the SAS®9 BI environment to assure a sustained level availability to meet the business objectives. This includes areas such as availability of the service, reliability, maintainability, administration and serviceability.
• High-Availability: A characteristic of availability management which focuses specifically on minimizing or masking the effects of a component failure within the IT infrastructure.
• Capacity Management: Encompasses performance monitoring, performance measurement and optimizing the IT environment to ensure the SAS®9 BI environment meets current and future capacity requirements while providing a cost effective infrastructure.
• Incident Management: The ability to detect, classify and report on incidents in the SAS®9 BI enviroment, such that services may be restored as quickly as possible with minimal interuption to the business.

The SAS®9 BI architecture is transitioning into a fundamental element of the IT environment and thereby must operate and integrate seamlessly into existing IT enterprise system management facilities. Therefore, the goals for these integration elements include:

• Design, develop and implement integration elements that enable SAS®9 BI applications to interoperate with IT system management tools
• Performance Managment and Assessment: Understanding end-to-end transaction performance and how to measure this performance using vendor system management facilities
• Event Management: Assessing the status of SAS applications via logging and monitoring and implementing methods to correlate events, errors and warnings across SAS®9 BI environments
• Problem Determination and Source Identification: Using correlation and logs isolate failing components and initiate recovery as necessary
• System Administration: Automation of start, stop and restart semantics using features or facilities of vendor system management facilities

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Questions or Feedback

The Enterprise Management Integration team is very interested in establishing a close and cooperative relationship with our customers. If you have recommendations, comments, or questions about the features and facilities which are described on this site, please email us your pithy comments at: EMI Feedback.

Your comments, recommendations and feedback are gratefully appreciated.

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Your EMI Team!