Monitoring Resources: the Analyze Pages

The Analyze pages contain the Alert Center, the Event Center, the Operations Center and the Environment Snapshot. If you have enabled SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture, the Report Center is also included. These pages enable you to quickly view and work with alerts, events, system status, and performance and usage reporting throughout your system.

An event is any sort of activity in a resource that you are monitoring. Alerts are a user-defined type of event that acknowledges a critical condition in a selected resource. You can configure SAS Environment Manager to also log events for log messages and resource configuration changes.

The Alert Center page provides a deployment-wide view of alerts and alert definitions.

The default view of the Alert Center is the Alerts tab, which displays a table with information about currently active alerts. You can use the filter controls to filter by criteria such as status, type, and priority. Clicking on an entry in the Alert Definition column in the table displays detailed information about the alert.

To access the Alert Center, select AnalyzeAlert Center.

You can select the check box next to an alert and click Fixed to identify the problem as having been corrected. A window appears that enables you to enter information about the how the alert was resolved.

You can also click an entry in the Alert Definition column in the table to display the Detail page for the alert. From the Detail page, you can mark the alert as fixed and specify information about the resolution of the alert.

The Definition tab in the Alert Center contains a table listing all of the defined alerts. Clicking on an alert takes you to the definition page for the alert, where you can view more detailed information or edit the alert.

The Event Center page provides a deployment-wide view of all events that have been logged for resources. Alerts are automatically logged as events. You can configure SAS Environment Manager to also log events for log messages, resource configuration changes, and resource metric triggers.

To access the Event Center, select AnalyzeEvent Center.

The Operations Center lists resources that are down or have active alerts. You can use filters to find resources and problem types of interest. This concise view displays the current number of unavailable resources and active alerts, and a one line problem summary for each resource.

To access the Operations Center, select AnalyzeOperations Center.

Environment Snapshot contains a comprehensive listing of the system information in the SAS Environment Manager database. Although Environment Snapshot was originally designed to provide SAS Technical Support with a method for quickly diagnosing system issues, it also provides you with valuable information about your system. Environment Snapshot collects and displays the most current performance measures and configuration parameters from the SAS Environment Manager database, and also executes and gathers real-time usage information.

In addition, you can take a snapshot of the information, which saves all of the data in a text file. This file is useful when working with SAS Technical Support, because it provides an easy way to communicate the status and configuration of your system.

To access the Environment Snapshot, select AnalyzeEnvironment Snapshot.

The Report Center is collection of SAS Stored Processes that use data in the SAS Environment Manager Data Mart. These reports are created to provide a comprehensive view of the performance and status of your SAS environment and its resources.

The reports in the Report Center are created when you initialize SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring. However, the reports operate only on data stored in the data mart by APM or ACM ETL processes. Unless you initialize and enable one of those packages, no reports will be produced. Solution kits, which provide monitoring and reporting for specific applications or SAS solutions, can also add solution-specific reports to the Report Center.