Edit and Execute a Performance Definition

To create the monitoring reports, you specify a performance definition to generate SAS code. You then execute the generated code or create a schedule to execute the generated code on a specific day and time. Execution of the generated code creates the SAS data sets that are used to display reports: either the monitoring reports from the version Performance page, or the Monitoring report or Champion and Challenger Performance report that you create from the New Report window.
To edit the performance definition:
  1. Click Edit definition and select a champion or challenger model. Click Next.
    Edit Performance Model - Select Model
  2. Select a SAS Application Server.
  3. Select one or more output variables for stability analysis. To select all output variables, click All.
  4. Select one or more input variables for characteristic analysis. To select all input variables, click All. Click Next.
    Edit Performance Model - Select Server and Variables
  5. Choose the data processing method:
    • To run a standard environment, select Standard configuration.
      To run the score code in the performance monitor job, select the Run model score code check box.
    • To run the performance monitoring definition in a High-Performance Analytics environment, select High-performance configuration.
      Note: The score code is not run when High-performance configuration is selected.
  6. Decide to use either the static or dynamic data sources, and then specify the data source information.
    Note: Ensure that the data source information is complete before saving the definition. If you start adding information for static data sources and then decide to use dynamic data sources instead, be sure to delete the information added for static data sources before adding the dynamic data source information, and vice versa.
    To use static data sources:
    1. Click Add.
      Note: If you are adding multiple tables in the first performance definition, the data table whose collection date is the earliest is set as the baseline performance data table.
    2. Click the empty cell in the Data Source column.
    3. Click Browse and select a performance data source. Click OK.
    4. Click the empty cell in the Collection Date column and click Date Calendar. Select a date. The date can be any date in the time period when the performance data was collected.
    5. To add a label for the date, enter the label name in the Report Label column. The report label represents the time point of the performance data source. Because the report label appears in the performance charts, use a label that has not been used for another time period, is short, and is understandable (for example, Q1).
      Note: Duplicate report labels result in previous performance results being overwritten.
    6. (Optional) Select a data source and click Validate data source to verify that the selected input variables and target variable are included in the performance data source.
    7. (Optional) Repeat the above steps to add multiple performance data sources to the performance definition.
    8. (Optional) To delete a data source from the performance definition, select the data source and click Delete.
    To use dynamic data sources:
    1. Click folder to select a data source library.
    2. (Optional) Specify the prefix to remove from the data source names in the selected library. The data source name is used for the report label. You can remove the prefix so that it does not show as part of a report label on the charts.
  7. (Optional) Select Generate dashboard reports after the performance monitoring has completed. The dashboard definition must already exist for this option to work.
    Edit Performance Model - Set Processing and Performance Options
  8. Click Next.
  9. (Optional) Either specify values for the alert and warning conditions or accept the defaults.
  10. (Optional) To send the results by email, click Add. A new row is added to the table.
    1. Enter an email address.
    2. Select either Yes or No if you want an alert or warning to be sent by email when alert or warning thresholds have been exceeded.
    3. Select either Yes or No if you want a completion notice with the job status to be sent by email every time the report runs.
    Set Alerts and Notifications
  11. Click Save.
To execute a performance definition:
  1. Select the Performance page for the project.
  2. Click Execute.
  3. After the performance monitoring has been completed, a confirmation message appears. Click Close.
  4. Click the Results tab to view the performance results.
    Note: You can check the status of a job by clicking Refresh and then selecting the Results tab or the Job History tab.
Note: You can overwrite or delete previously created performance data sets.
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Last updated: February 22, 2017