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SAS IT Resource Management: Administration and Batch Reporting

Duration: 2.0 days
CEUs: 1.2
Available for on-site training or can be scheduled at any SAS training facility if demand warrants.

This outline is provisional and subject to change.

This course teaches you how to build or maintain a performance data warehouse (PDB) and produce a Web gallery of production reports using SAS IT Resource Management software.

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Who should attend

IT administrators as well as analysts who want to gain a deeper understanding of the product architecture and capabilities

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Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should identify the IT services that your enterprise wants to analyze as well as your enterprise's sources of data (such as logs) about these services. You should also have knowledge of your native operating system environment and data sources. In addition, you should have completed No prior knowledge of data warehousing is required.
Course Contents
Overview
  • understanding the components of SAS IT Resource Management
  • understanding the data and data flow
Creating a PDB and Adding Supplied Table Definitions
  • understanding performance data warehouses (PDBs)
  • working with other SAS IT Resource Management libraries
  • working with tables
  • creating a PDB, adding tables, and customizing
Processing Data into the Detail Level
  • working with the table’s main properties at detail level
  • working with the variables' main properties at detail level
  • understanding the main operations of the process step
  • processing data into a PDB
  • touring the GUI for OS/390
Reducing Data into the Day, Week, Month, and Year Levels
  • working with a table’s main properties that affect summary levels
  • working with a variable’s main properties that affect summary levels
  • customizing tables and variables at summary levels
  • understanding the main operations of the reduce step
  • reducing data in a PDB
  • working with large data volumes
Running in Batch with Macros
  • creating a PDB
  • adding tables
  • processing and reducing data
Reporting in Batch with Macros
  • generating reports related to Manage Report Definitions
  • generating reports related to Perform Exception Analysis
  • building a Web gallery
  • using additional reporting macros
  • retrieving archived data
Setup Cases and Using the QuickStart Wizard
  • understanding the setup cases
  • running the QuickStart Wizard
Using a Custom Data Source
  • creating the PDB
  • staging the data
  • generating a draft of the table definitions
  • creating and editing tables
  • customizing the PDB, tables, and site library
  • processing and reducing data
  • installing collector support
Working with a Character-delimited Data Source
  • creating the PDB
  • generating a draft of the table definitions
  • creating and editing tables
  • customizing the PDB, tables, and site library
  • processing and reducing data
Additional Functionality
  • installing a new release
  • deciding where to keep your programs, reports, and so on
  • checking for duplicate data
  • using process exits
  • creating tables for a new mib, object, class, model type, or schema file
Where Do You Go from Here
  • SAS IT Resource Management software
  • SAS Institute resources
Software
This course addresses SAS IT Management Solutions.
Course Materials
Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
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Not currently scheduled. Available for on-site training or can be scheduled at any SAS training facility if demand warrants.


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