When you initialize
extended monitoring , two main categories of actions are performed:
-
initialization of predefined alerts,
groups, and configurations to enable you to start using SAS Environment
Manager without having to go through a manual setup process
-
initialization of the SAS Environment
Manager Data Mart
The initialization process performs both sets of actions.
If you are not planning to use the data mart, initializing its infrastructure
does not impact performance of SAS Environment Manager.
The following setup
tasks are performed during the initialization of SAS Environment Manager:
configuration of discovered resources
Resources such as platforms
and servers that were added to the SAS Environment Manager inventory
during installation are configured so that they can begin collecting
metric data.
creation of compatible groups and mixed groups
A set of standard resource
groups is created and then populated by resources that were discovered
in your environment. After the groups are created, the groups are
automatically updated as part of ETL processing.
adjustment of monitoring metrics
The metrics provided
by SAS Environment Manager are optimized for monitoring of a SAS environment.
The optimization process includes turning data collection on or off
for certain metrics and changing sampling intervals for others.
creation of HTTP checks of SAS web applications
These HTTP checks are
services that check SAS web applications such as the stored process
server to make sure they are operational. The check also generates
data such as the length of time the query took.
creation of alerts
The process creates
a collection of alerts that signal common operational problems in
a SAS environment, such as hardware problems, server issues, and storage
issues.
The following tasks
are performed for the data mart:
preparation of the data mart
The initialization
process creates infrastructure data sets for the data mart.
loading of the Report Center
The initialization
process loads the stored processes for the Report Center reports.
However, unless one or more of the ETL packages are enabled and initialized,
the data required to produce the reports is not present and the Report
Center is not available from SAS Environment Manager.
creation of associated metadata objects
The initialization
process imports SAS package files to the SAS Metadata Server that
contain ACTs and user groups to support the data mart.