Overview of SAS Management Console

SAS Management Console is a Java application that provides a single point of control for managing multiple SAS application resources. Rather than using a separate administrative interface for each application in your enterprise intelligence environment, you can use the SAS Management Console interface to perform the administrative tasks required to create and maintain an integrated environment.
SAS Management Console manages resources and controls by creating and maintaining metadata definitions for entities such as the following:
  • server definitions
  • library definitions
  • user definitions
  • resource access controls
  • metadata repositories
  • job schedules
Metadata definitions that are created through SAS Management Console are stored in a repository on a SAS Metadata Server where they are available for other applications to use. For example, you can use SAS Management Console to create a metadata definition for a SAS library that specifies information such as the libref, path, and engine type (such as SASSPDS). After SAS Management Console stores the metadata definition for the library in the repository on the SAS Metadata Server, any other application can access the definition to access the specified library.
The SAS Management Console application is a framework. The metadata definitions are created using Java plug-ins, which are application modules that create metadata for a specific type of resource.
For example, administrators can use SAS Management Console to configure SPD Server user and group passwords and ACLs instead of using the traditional SPD Server psmgr utility and SPDO procedure statements.
CAUTION:
ACLs created with SAS Management Console cannot be recovered with the console if the ACLs are damaged or somehow lost.
The SPDO procedure enables you to save your ACL code, so that if a problem occurs, your ACLs can be reapplied. You might want to use PROC SPDO to create your ACLs instead of SAS Management Console.
Last updated: February 3, 2017