Target group
SAS 9.4 administrators
Course structure
Exploring SAS 9 Administration
- Introduction to SAS 9.4 administration.
- Administration tasks.
- Exploring administration tools.
Reviewing SAS Components
- Exploring the SAS 9 architecture.
- Operating SAS servers and spawners.
- Exploring SAS Environment Manager.
Understanding Metadata, Backups, and Hot Fixes
- Exploring the SAS Metadata Server and metadata repositories.
- Backing up the SAS Metadata Server.
- Backing up the SAS environment.
- Applying hot fixes.
Administering Users, Groups, and Roles
- Exploring initial authentication to the SAS Metadata Server.
- Administering users and groups.
- Exploring internal accounts, roles, and administrative identities.
Managing SAS Compute Servers and Spawners
- Understanding SAS Compute Servers.
- Exploring credential management.
- Administering server logging.
Securing Metadata
- Reviewing metadata security.
- Exploring ACTs and metadata permissions.
- Customizing SAS folders.
Establishing Connectivity to Data Sources
- Registering libraries and tables in metadata.
- Setting up data access.
Monitoring Your SAS Environment
- Monitoring a SAS environment with SAS Environment Manager.
- Troubleshooting a SAS environment.
- Maintenance and ongoing administration tasks.
Additional Topics
- Metadata server clustering.
- Monitoring resources: the Analyze pages.
- SAS import macros.
