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Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. 2.5-P2:evug Contents What’s New in SAS Environment Manager 2.5 . vii PART 1 Understanding SAS Environment Manager 1 Chapter 1 • Introduction to SAS Environment Manager . 3 Starting SAS Environment Manager . 3 What is SAS Environment Manager? . 3 Resource Inventory Model . 6 Deciding Which Components to Initialize . 8 Chapter 2 • Finding Your Way Around . 11 Finding Your Way Around . 11 Viewing Important Information at a Glance: the Dashboard . 12 Monitoring Platforms, Servers, and Services: the Resources Pages . 13 Monitoring Resources: the Analyze Pages . 14 Performing SAS Tasks: the Administration Page . 18 Configuring SAS Environment Manager: the Manage Page . 19 Chapter 3 • Viewing Information at a Glance: Using the Dashboard . 21 Using the Dashboard . 21 Customizing Your Dashboard . 23 Summary Portlet Examples . 24 Metric Viewer Portlet Examples . 27 Metric Chart Examples . 32 Chapter 4 • Finding Resources in Your System . 37 Automatically Discovering and Adding SAS Resources . 37 Using the Auto-Discovery Portlet . 37 Performing an Auto-Discovery Scan . 38 Rediscovering Resources . 38 Manually Adding a Server . 39 Manually Configuring a Service . 39 Manually Specifying Hostnames and IP Addresses . 40 Chapter 5 • Monitoring and Controlling Resources . 41 Monitoring Resources . 41 Managing SAS Resources . 43 Making Resources Easier to Locate . 45 Controlling Resources Using Control Actions . 47 Chapter 6 • Working with Events and Alerts . 49 Creating Resource Events . 49 Importing and Exporting Events . 51 Working with Resource Alerts . 54 Chapter 7 • Controlling Access to SAS Environment Manager . 61 Controlling Access to SAS Environment Manager . 61 iv Contents Creating SAS Middle-Tier Administrator IDs . 65 PART 2 Operations Integration, Audits, and Performance Analysis 67 Chapter 8 • Understanding SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture . 69 Understanding SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture . 69 Working with SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring . 71 Working with the APM ETL . 73 Working with ACM ETL . 75 Creating a Federated Data Mart . 76 Working with the Solution Kits Infrastructure . 77 Feeding Data from the Data Mart into SAS Visual Analytics . 77 Chapter 9 • Initializing and Enabling the Service Architecture . 81 Overview and Prerequisites . 81 Initializing SAS Environment Manager Extended Monitoring . 83 Enabling and Initializing the APM ETL . 84 Enabling ACM ETL . 88 Configure Data Collection for SAS Jobs Reports . 88 Updating the Service Architecture in SAS Environment Manager 2.5 . 89 Changing ETL Configuration Settings . 90 Chapter 10 • Using the Report Center . 91 What is the Report Center? . 91 Use the Report Center . 92 Change Report Parameters . 93 Finding the Reports You Need . 93 Adding Reports to the Report Center . 96 Running Reports in Batch . 97 Deprecated Reports . 98 Chapter 11 • Using Service Architecture to Perform Common AdministrationTasks . 99 Usage Tasks . 99 Resource Health and Status Tasks . 102 System Configuration Tasks . 103 Chapter 12 • Working with Commands . 105 Performing Functions By Using a Command Line . 105 PART 3 Appendixes 115 Appendix 1 • Installing SAS Environment Manager in a Shared Directory Environment . 117 Appendix 2 • Troubleshooting . 123 Appendix 3 • Manual Setup Examples . 135 Alert Definition Examples . 135 Manually Configuring HTTP Components and Applications . ..