About the Predefined Reports :: SAS® Visual Analytics 7.4: Administration Guide

Location

Predefined reports are in the folder

/Products/SAS
                     Visual Analytics Administrator/Reports/Usage

. In the administrator, you can access the predefined reports by selecting View

Usage Reports from the main menu.

Administrator overview	Provides usage information by application, user, and object. Uses data from the middle-tier audit service.
Relationship report	Provides lineage and dependency information for selected object types. Uses data from the middle-tier relationship service.
Midtier performance report	Provides system metrics for participating SAS server machines. Uses agent collected metric (ACM) data.

Note: Each predefined report is populated with data only after its data feed is fully enabled and operational. Not all predefined reports are supported in all deployments. See How to Provide Administrative Data.

Access

Initial Configuration

In the standard configuration, only administrators and unrestricted users can access predefined reports and their underlying data. Details are as follows:

The Visual Analytics Data Administrators and Visual Data Builder Administrators groups have ReadMetadata and Read access to the data.
The Visual Analytics Data Administrators and Visual Data Builder Administrators groups have ReadMetadata access to the reports.
The Visual Analytics Data Administrators and SAS Administrators groups have WriteMemberMetadata access to the /Products/SAS Visual Analytics Administrator/Reports/Usage folder.
An explicit denial of the WriteMetadata permission on each predefined report prevents modification or deletion by anyone other than an unrestricted user.

How to Modify Access

Here is one way to make predefined reports more widely available:

Grant the ReadMetadata permission on the folder that contains the reports (/Products/SAS Visual Analytics Administrator/Reports/Usage).
Grant the ReadMetadata and Read permissions on the folder that contains the data (/Shared Data/SAS Visual Analytics/Autoload/EVDMLA).
Grant the ReadMetadata permission on the library Environment Manager Data Mart LASR.

Tip

If your site does not use the reports and underlying data, you can hide them from all restricted users by adding denials of the ReadMetadata permission.

Data Currency

Data currency is affected by the following factors:

frequency of data collection or generation by the source system
frequency of data extraction from the source system to a drop zone
frequency of data loading from the drop zone to a SAS LASR Analytic Server

For example, in the standard configuration, the SAS Visual Analytics key actions audit data is usually less than 30 minutes old. Audit records are continuously generated, audit data is extracted every 15 minutes, and the extracted data is loaded every 15 minutes.

Note: For data extraction and loading, a new run begins only after the preceding run is completed. This can cause occasional exceptions to the timing that is described here.

Interacting with Reports

For information about viewing and interacting with reports, see the SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide.

About Custom Reports

Do not modify the predefined reports. Instead, use the designer to create custom reports.

Before you create a custom report that uses data structures that SAS provides, or data that SAS generates, review the following considerations:

Data structures, data generation, and available tables are subject to change in future releases (of SAS Visual Analytics or of any underlying component). Any custom reports that you create might require revision before they can be used in a future release.
Before you perform any software upgrades, migrations, or new installations, you should you save a backup copy of any custom reports.