topic Re: How do I measure the use of the SAS Add In? in Administration and Deployment

How do I measure the use of the SAS Add In?

PhilMason — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:45:22 GMT

Morning all,

we had a manager say that the SAS Add-in was used a lot and I have been trying to quantify that. When someone uses the SAS Add-in (from Excel or Word) it spawns a SAS Workspace Server session, so it is possible to go and find the log for that and see what they did. In the same way Enterprise Guide spawns a Workspace Server session too.

I am trying to identify what started the session from the log. Comparing two logs side by side I couldn’t see anything that I could use to do that. Has anyone done this? Or know of a way to do it?

I suppose I could change the way they are spawned and add a macro variable to pass in to use, but that involves messing around with configurations. Any advice would be appreciated.

thanks

Phil

Re: How do I measure the use of the SAS Add In?

BrunoMueller — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:36:21 GMT

The Object Spwaner log can tell you this information, see example below

2016-07-05T13:34:41,262 INFO [00000047] :abc@cdf - New client connection (12) accepted from server port 8591 for user abc@cdf. Encryption level is Credentials using encryption algorithm SASProprietary. Peer IP address and port are [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:49653 for APPNAME=SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.
2016-07-05T13:37:38,026 INFO [00000075] :abc@cdf - New client connection (14) accepted from server port 8591 for user abc@cdf. Encryption level is Credentials using encryption algorithm SASProprietary. Peer IP address and port are [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:49921 for APPNAME=SAS Enterprise Guide.

Bruno

Re: How do I measure the use of the SAS Add In?

brendanodwyer — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:05:29 GMT

Bruno,

Are those codes specific to client applications? Just curious. Assuming so.

Re: How do I measure the use of the SAS Add In?

BrunoMueller — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:34:31 GMT

Yes they are specific to the application like

APPNAME=SAS Enterprise Guide.

I do not know of a list of app names

Bruno