SAS/CONNECT User's Guide

Conditional Agent Processing

An agent-based application can be implemented to take advantage of conditional sequential-step logic. Having conditional capabilities allows an agent to spawn additional agents based on conditions that are encountered during execution.

For example, a filtering agent can be constructed, which processes operational data stores and searches for anomalous entries. Upon locating such an anomaly, a conditional agent may deliver an alert to an audit queue, which is monitored by a manager who has responsibility for the operational system being filtered. As well, other conditional logic may spawn an extraction agent to generate consolidation summaries.

After the summaries are ready, another agent may stage those summaries in the form of data set attachments to update messages that are delivered to a designated message queue. Replication agents might be used to monitor the queue. After the message is received, the replication agents execute on the decision support servers that provide daytime access, completing the replication process. If problems are encountered, alerts can be delivered accordingly.

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