In reply to jaap karman.

Jaap, your point is well taken about larger, enterprise deployments having the luxury of relying on dedicated IT staff to provide operational monitoring for SAS related components. I did not mean to suggest that all of the duties of a "SAS Admin" should be foisted upon a single individual. I tend to think of the SAS Admin as more of a persona than an individual. If a company has in-house experts to oversee certain areas then the duties of the SAS Admin can be distributed to the appropriate responsible party. If there happen to be IT experts in the area of monitoring then by all means, let them handle monitoring as they see fit. Similarly, if there are security experts, let them be in charge of securing the SAS environment. In many cases, however, the SAS users have to provide their own support and may, in fact, entrust all of the SAS Admin duties to one person. I don't think SAS is endorsing one way or the other. We're just trying to provide tools to enable the appropriate person to do their job easier.
Thanks for raising this thought and allowing me to clarify my take on it.