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

Best Practices for SAS BI Administrators: Using SAS Configuration Troubleshooter to Keep SAS Solutiions and SAS® BI Applications Running Smoothly

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.