Overview of Exception Analysis Processing

SAS IT Resource Management provides the ability to define, detect, evaluate, and report on conditions in the data that are statistically exceptional. Exception analysis systems notify users about potential conditions of concern in a proactive way.
SAS IT Resource Management exception analysis processing enables users to accomplish the following objectives:
  • organize data sources for the detection of exceptional conditions
  • describe the statistical behaviors that are indicative of IT anomalies
  • prescribe recommended actions to correct the anomaly
  • distribute information about the anomaly to responsible parties
Exception condition might include indicators of anomalies such as the following:
  • free memory below a designated threshold more than 15 times in a row
  • disk queues that are 2 standard deviations or more greater than those observed over the past 2 months
  • instances where a machine's CPU is greater than 85% busy for more than 50% of the observations evaluated for a particular machine
The SAS IT Resource Management exception analysis process examines columns of source data. Typically, the source data is a staged table. However, it can be any table (including an aggregation table) that users need to examine for exceptional conditions.
Note: The source data cannot be an information map.
The exceptional conditions that you define for your site can be evaluated for groupings of data that you specify.