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SAS Application Performance Monitoring for UNIX

Overview In many SAS application environments, a strategy for measuring and monitoring system performance is key to maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This paper discusses various aspects of performance monitoring in a SAS environment, both from a dedicated SAS server perspective as well as multiple applications hosted on a single server. The importance of performance baselines, capacity planning, and configuration management are discussed as it pertains to the SAS application environment. Evaluation of system components such as CPU, memory, disk, and network performance is also discussed individually as well as collectively to develop a complete perspective on both application as well as system level performance.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering, UNIX

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