Administrative Reporting of SAS Visual Analytics 7.1 and Integration with Environment Manager 2.4 Service Architecture Framework

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Administrative Reporting of SAS Visual Analytics 7.1
and Integration with
Environment Manager 2.4 Service Architecture Framework
22nd April 2015
Keinavo SAGL - Corso Elvezia, 25 - 6900 Lugano – Switzerland
Keinavo srl - Strada 6 A13, 20090 Assago Milanofiori (MI) - Italy
Francesco Marelli - CTO

Agenda
 Keinavo
 Keinavo Cloud Services
 Instance of a distributed SAS HP Analytics Infrastructure in the Keinavo Cloud
 SAS Visual Analytics 7.1 built-in administration reporting
 SAS Environment Manager 2.4
 SAS EM 2.4 Service Management Architecture Enablement
 SAS EM 2.4 SMA Integration with SAS Visual Analytics
 Implementation in Keinavo Cloud Services
Agenda
Keinavo SAGL - Corso Elvezia, 25 - 6900 Lugano – Switzerland /// Keinavo srl - Strada 6 A13, 20090 Assago Milanofiori (MI) - Italy

Keinavo
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Instance of a Distributed SAS HPA Architecture
Instance of a Distributed SAS HPA Architecture

SAS VA 7.1 Built In Administration Reporting 1
SAS VA 7.1 Built In Administration Reporting
 SAS VA 7.1 provides a predefined audit report for administrators
 The collection and loading of the data for the report must be manually enabled
 Set property va.AuditingEnabled = true for Visual Analytics Configuration
 Schedule autoload for scheduling user.
 Data is refreshed in memory every 15 minutes by default

SAS VA 7.1 Built In Administration Reporting 2
SAS VA 7.1 Built In Administration Reporting
 Top Usage (Users, Tables, Reports, Mobile Report Subscriptions)
 Visual Analytics (Usage by Time, Users Activity, Component Usage)
 LASR Server (LASR Server Usage, Data Usage by Component, Data accessed)
 Components (Component Usage, Users and Actions)
 Data Sources (Data Sources usage by user and time)
 Top Data Sources (By user and component)
 Administrative Detail (Tables loaded log, User activity log, Failure log)

SAS Environment Manager 2.4
 SAS Environment Manager was introduced with SAS 9.4
 Based on VMwares’s vFabric Hyperic monitoring framework complemented with
technology provided by SAS
 It is a complete, SAS-aware, out-of-the-box monitoring solution

SAS Environment Manager 2.4 – Logical
Architecture
 SAS Environment Manager
 Monitoring and Management of SAS Resources
 Collection and Reporting of metrics for SAS Resources
 Monitoring of Events
 Customisable Alerts
 Escalation processes for alerts
 SAS EM Data Mart for low level analysis and forensics analysis (BI on BI)
 SAS Environment Manager is installed and configured during installation

SAS Environment Manager 2.4 - Resources
 SAS EM works on 3 resource levels
 Platforms (Physical or Virtual machines)
 Servers (SAS Servers, DB Servers, Web Application Servers)
 Services (Web Application in Web Application Servers, etc.)
 Users can navigate the resources to get information such as
? How many users are currently connected
? What is the CPU usage trend for a platform
? What is the percentage of usage of the SAS Work area
? What is the I/O rate for a given file system
? What is the trend of memory usage
? Other...
 There is a wealth of predefined events and alerts, it is also possible to define
customized events and alerts to suit customer’s specific needs.

SAS Environment Manager 2.4 - Dashboard

SAS Environment Manager 2.4 - Metadata
 SAS EM also provides an interface for managing SAS Metadata
 Users, groups and roles
 Groups and roles memberships
 Logins and internal accounts
 The interface is not meant to replace SAS Management Console for these tasks, but it can
be an alternative and provides enhanced user administration features
 Permission Inspector
 Explore Inheritance Diagram

SAS EM 2.4 Service Management Architecture
 “SAS Environment Manager Service Management Architecture provides functions and capabilities
that enable SAS Environment Manager to fit into a service-oriented architecture (SOA)”
 The following components form the SM Architecture and can be enabled
 SAS EM Data Mart - Stores monitored data
 Audit, Performance and Measurement (APM) ETL - Collects information from SAS
logs and stores it in the SAS EM Data Mart
 Agent-Collected Metrics (ACM) ETL - Collects information from the EM Database and
stores it in the SAS EM Data Mart
 Report Center - Extensive collection of SAS Stored Processes that report against the SAS
EM Data Mart
 Solution Kit Framework - Allows SAS Solutions to extend the capabilities of SAS EM by
providing solution specific monitoring and metrics
 SAS VA Data Feed - Allows for automatic copy of some EM DM tables to the VA Admin
drop zone for auto-load in memory
SAS EM 2.4 Service Management Architecture

SAS EM 2.4 SM Architecture Enablement
 SAS EM Extended Monitoring enablement is a manual process, it provides
 Automated SAS EM Resource configuration
 Optimized Alerts for operational issues in a SAS Environment
 Defined resource groups
 Event exporting and importing
 Monitoring of availability and responsiveness of SAS Web Applications
 SAS EM Data Mart initialization
 Report Center processes and reports
 APM, ACM and Solution Kits ETL and VA Data Feed are optionally enabled in separate steps
but required Extended Monitoring

SAS EM 2.4 SM Architecture Enablement –
Data Mart Tables
ACM TABLES Description
AVAILABILITY Resource availability
FILEMOUNTS Usage data for file mounts on discovered platforms
GROUPINVENTORY * Resource groups defined in SAS Environment Manager
EVENTS Events logged by SAS EM
HOSTPLATFORMS * Metrics for platforms
HTTPCHECKS * Metrics for HTTP checks of web services
IOMSERVERS * Metrics for IOM Servers
MEASUREINVENTORY Inventory of measurements being performed
METADATASVRS * Metrics for Metadata Servers
NETWORKINTERFACE * Metrics for network performance
RESOURCEINVENTORY * Inventory of resources in SAS EM
TCSSERVERMGRS * Metrics for tcServers
WEBAPPSERVER * Metrics for SAS Web Applications
WIPDATADB * Metrics for SAS Web Infrastructure Platform
APM TABLES Description
RELATIONSHIPS Relationships between artifacts defined in other tables
ARTIFACTS Information about the artifcats in the environment
ARTIFACTSPHYSICALLOCATION Physical location of the artifacts
ARTIFCATUSAGEDETAILS * Usage information about the artifacts
ARTIFACTSUSERSESSIONS * Usage information about the artifacts in a session
AUDIT_ACCESSC * Audit records for object access events
AUDIT_ADMUSER * Audit information for administrative users activity
AUDIT_GROUP * Audit information for Identity Groups
AUDIT_TRANSACTIONS * Audit information for transactions
AUDITACCESSCONTROLDETAIL * Audit information about access requests
AUDITIM Audit information by time
DTINFOALL Information about log file access
LIBRARIES Information about SAS libraries in the environment
SERVERTYPEBYUSER Information about server access by user
SERVERUSAGEBYUSER Information about server usage by user
KITS TABLES Description
EMI-INFO Metrics for SAS EM ETL processes* Table copied to drop zone if SAS VA feed is enabled

SAS EM 2.4 SM Architecture Enablement –
Report Center
 Report Center provides many “ready
to go” reports organized by:
o Dymanics Reports
o Datamart
o Metadata Inventor
o KITS
o LASR
o SASJobs
o Nightly Reports
o ACM Reports
o APM Reports
o Audit Reports (Log Forensic)
o EMI SAS Job ETL Reports
o Event and Availability Reports
o Sample Gallery
o Ad Hoc Reporting

SAS EM 2.4 SMA Integration with SAS VA
SAS EM 2.4 SMA Integration with SAS VA
 After a successful run of the APM, ACM and Kits ETL processes, selected Environment Manager
Data Mart tables are copied to the VA Admin drop zone for auto-load in memory (EVDMLA)

Implementation in Keinavo Cloud Services
 Keinavo Cloud Services include setup and ongoing management activities related to the SAS EM
Architecture in every environment, SMP or MMP without limits to the number of servers used.
 Inclusion of “SAS EM Data Mart enhanced by Keinavo”. Provides ETL jobs to create and populate an
enhanced Data Mart with additional information to be used by non administrators and external reporting
tools. Can be customized as per client’s needs.
 We also provide additional preconfigured Visual Analytics Data Explorations and Reports that
maximise the already rich information available in the SAS EM Data Mart

Implementation in Keinavo Cloud Services – ACM Data Expl

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