Monitoring Resources

A central capability of SAS Environment Manager is the ability to monitor resources. Monitoring enables you to track a resource’s availability and overall health. A variety of metric data is displayed, both in numeric and graphic format, to enable you to examine detailed information about the resource’s operation.

To view the monitoring information for a resource, select a resource from the table on the Resources page.

The fastest way to check the status of the selected resource is to use the availability bar, which is above the indicator charts. The availability bar displays a color-coded dot that represents the availability during a time slice. The length of each time slice depends on the display range that you select (for example, if you display the past eight hours of data, each dot corresponds to approximately eight minutes). The percentage of time that the resource was available is displayed at the end of the availability bar.

The dots are color-coded using the following format:

An availability bar such as the one in the following figure shows that the resource fluctuated between being available, partially available, and unavailable over the most recent time slices.

To help determine the cause of availability problems, click on the dot for a particular time slice. The selected time slice is highlighted on the indicator charts below the availability bar. This function helps you quickly check the charts for data that might correspond to the availability problem.

To change the metrics that are displayed in the metric charts, use the menu on the left side of the page to select either All Metrics or Problem Metrics, and then click View Metrics to display a list of available metrics. Click the arrow beside a metric to add the chart to those displayed on the page.

The events bar is displayed below the indicator charts. It is similar to the availability bar, with dots representing time slices. The bar displays only a purple dot if an event occurs during a time slice. If no event occurs, the bar remains black.