SAS® Management Console

Providing a single point of control for managing resources that are used throughout a business intelligence environment. Rather than using a separate administrative interface for each application in your computing environment, you can use SAS Management Console's single interface to perform the administrative tasks required to create and maintain an integrated environment across multiple platforms. As you administer the SAS Intelligence Platform, one of your primary tools will be SAS Management Console. SAS Management Console is a Java application that provides a single point of control for administering your SAS servers and for managing metadata objects that are used throughout the SAS Intelligence Platform. Whenever the SAS Metadata Server is running, you can use SAS Management Console to connect to the SAS Metadata Server and view and manage the metadata objects that are stored in the server's metadata repositories. The SAS Management Console user interface includes a Plug-ins tab, a Folders tab, and a Search tab that you can use to access and manage metadata, as described in the following topics. SAS Management Console is a framework in which a variety of plug-ins are installed. A plug-in is an application module that is designed to create and maintain metadata for a specific type of resource. For example, the Server Manager plug-in is used to create and update metadata to define SAS servers. Some plug-ins include additional functionality. For example, the Server Manager plug-in enables you to stop, pause, and resume servers and to monitor server activity.

The most recent release is SAS Management Console 9.4.

SAS Management Console enables you to manage server definitions, library definitions, user, group, role definitions, resource access controls, metadata repository and job schedules. The application provides a flexible administrative environment through the use of plug-ins. A plug-in is a Java .jar file that is installed in the SAS Management Console directory to provide a specific administrative function. SAS Management Console works by creating and maintaining metadata definitions for each computing resource or control. These metadata definitions are stored in a repository on a SAS Metadata Server, where they are available for use by other applications.