Process Profiler

Click the Process Profiler folder in the SAS Management Console window to view server resources that are monitored by the Performance Server.

The Performance Server gathers SPD Server process performance information and distributes it across the SPD Management section of SAS Management Console. This information consists of memory and resource allocations that are attributable to users and SPD Server processes that are spawned by an SPD Server name server. All SPD Server users must connect to an SPD Server name server before their SPD Server session can be spawned. Each SPD Server name server owns a dynamic family of subordinate SPD Server processes. SPD Server users and jobs create and terminate these processes.

To access a server's process performance information, the Performance Server application spdsperf must be running for the targeted SPD Server name server. SAS Management Console must be able to connect to the listening port of the SPD Server Performance Server.

You must first connect the Process Profiler to the Performance Server. Click Connect in the Process Profiler panel to open the Connect to SPD Profile Server dialog box.

Enter your host name or server name, and the Performance Server's listening port, and then click Connect. (You specify the Performance Server's listening port number when you start the Performance Server application.)

After SAS Management Console is connected to the Performance Server, the information that the Performance Server captures is displayed.

The host performance profile information is automatically updated whenever the Performance Server performs another capture. You specify the frequency with which the Performance Server captures information using the -c option when you start the Performance Server. For more information about Performance Server start-up settings, see Setting Up the Performance Server.

If the SAS Management Console user also connects to the same SPD Server name server through ACL Manager, Password Manager, or Server Manager, the user information that is displayed is the SPD Server user name that was used to connect with the LIBNAME statement. Otherwise, the user name of the user that started SPD Server and the component SPD Server processes is displayed.