A SAM represents a server that is being monitored.
Clicking on a SAM in the Surveillance tree provides access to entities (connections to databases, etc.) and product-related options.
Administrators of Surveillance go to the SAM to configure security and permissions functionality, such as SAM user accounts to log into Surveillance, and role-based access control (RBAC) and fine-grained permissions to filter views or data based on the audience.
By default, a SAM name is the hostname of the server. However, SAM names cannot contain hyphens, so these will be converted to underscores during installation.