What Are the SAS ARM Interface Features?

The SAS ARM interface uses the following features to measure and log application availability, performance, usage, and transaction response time:
  • ARM agent, which is an executable program that contains an implementation of the ARM API
  • ARM appender, which processes ARM transaction events and sends the events to a specified output destination
  • ARM performance macros, which you strategically place in your SAS programs to define, start, and stop ARM data collection and contain default user metrics
  • ARM system options:
    • ARMAGENT= , which specifies an executable module or keyword
    • ARMLOC=, which specifies the location of an ARM log
    • ARMSUBSYS=, which specifies whether to initialize the ARM subsystems
  • default correlators, which are used to track parent and child transactions
  • default user metrics, which are used to measure start, update, and stop times
  • performance macros, which contain default user metrics
  • SAS logging facility, which enables more flexibility and control of the ARM log destinations and message formats
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