About the Add Domain Category Wizard :: SAS(R) IT Resource Management 3.7: Administrator's Guide

What Is the Add Domain Category Wizard?

The Add Domain Category wizard enables you to add domain categories to an existing staging transformation that has been generated by the Adapter Setup wizard. For each new domain category, the wizard creates aggregation jobs, information map jobs, reporting jobs, and exception jobs that process the raw data for an IT resource. These jobs are based on industry intelligence that represents a best estimate about the types of aggregations and reports that most sites need for analysis. If exception definitions are set up for the adapter and domain category combination, an exception job is also created. For more information about domain categories, see Domain Categories.

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The Add Domain Category wizard creates jobs and metadata (for tables, libraries, folders, and so on), in the same way that the Adapter Setup wizard does. Therefore, knowledge of how the Adapter Setup wizard works is necessary in order to understand the Add Domain Category wizard. This chapter explains how the Add Domain Category wizard works. For more information about processing details that are not discussed in this chapter, see About the Adapter Setup Wizard.

After the wizard creates the appropriate jobs, you can deploy, schedule, and run each as needed.

For more information about using the Add Domain Category wizard, see Accessing and Navigating the Add Domain Category Wizard.

Note: You might want to process one or more sets of raw data into the staged tables that were added with the Add Domain Category wizard. In addition, you want to include that backloaded data in the appropriate aggregation tables and, ultimately, the reports. For information about how to do this, see How to Backload Raw Data.

Advantages of the Add Domain Category Wizard

The Add Domain Category wizard enables you to add more domain categories to an existing adapter instance under the following circumstances:

The Adapter Setup wizard created the staging transformation to which you want to add another domain category.
The domain category that you are adding was not previously specified for this adapter.

If you already added all available domains using the Adapter Setup wizard or the Add Domain Category wizard, then the Add Domain Category wizard does not allow you to add anything else.

Note: The Add Domain Category wizard cannot be used for staging transformations that were created by means other than the Adapter Setup wizard. It cannot be used for the RRD or CSV adapters because each of these adapters has only one domain category. In addition, it cannot be used for the following adapters that enable only staging transformations:

ASG TMON2CIC
ASG TMONDB2
ASG TMONDB2 V5
BMC Mainview IMS
CA TMS
DT Perf Sentry with MXG
IBM DCOLLECT
IBM EREP
IBM TPF
IBM VMMON

Naming Conventions That the Add Domain Category Wizard Uses

The Add Domain Category wizard uses the same naming conventions that the Adapter Setup wizard uses when naming and saving the various folders, jobs, transformations, and tables that it creates. These standards simplify the management and maintenance of the various objects that are interrelated. For best results, if you edit the IT data mart folders, subfolders, jobs, transformations, or tables that the wizard creates, then use the same naming conventions that the Adapter Setup wizard uses for consistency and efficiency.

For a comprehensive list of the naming conventions and location standards that SAS IT Resource Management uses, see About Naming Standards for SAS IT Resource Management Objects.