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:
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.