Configuration Troubleshooter (Identifying what to do when your in the poo)
Within the SAS Management Console there is a plugin called ‘Configuration Troubleshooter’ whihc has always been blank for me. I thought it was a bit like the ‘Roadmap’ capability in SAS Management Console, i.e a place holder for something that hadn’t been implemented yet (or just never got developed as expected).
But with a hat tip to Barry Stevens at Housing New Zealand, it is a extremely powerful tool and even easier to setup.
So what is the Configuration troubleshooter? Well according to an excellent paper from SAS called
it is:
“The Configuration Troubleshooter is a plug-in for SAS® Management Console that is used to query and display the configuration of a SAS Business Intelligence environment. The Configuration Troubleshooter gathers configuration data from three main sources: the SAS® Metadata Repository; Web servers and Web application servers; and configuration files, and displays the data in a window for review and interpretation.”
For me it is a great tool that enables you to investigate what you have got setup, how and where. It also enables you to create your own rules to document and monitor areasthat aren;t in the standard Configuration Triubleshooter setup.
Checkout the SAS paper and have a go.