SAS Administration from the Ground Up
Running the SAS9 Platform in a Metadata Server Environment
Published on 1. March 2019
182 pages
978-1-63526-729-7 (ISBN)
Description
Learn SAS® administration from the ground up!
Those who are new to SAS platform administration may find themselves full of questions. SAS® Administration from the Ground Up: Running the SAS®9 Platform in a Metadata Server Environment will save you time, money and frustration.
This book walks the reader through setting up and maintaining a SAS platform from scratch. The author includes tips on best practices and troubleshooting to show you simple ways to streamline your SAS environment and make your work more manageable.
Written for both new administrators and seasoned professionals, this book covers:
- SAS® 9.4 architecture
- SAS administration tools such as SAS® Management Console, SAS® Environment Manager and SAS® Deployment Manager
- Users, groups, and roles
- Metadata library administration
- Security
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SAS Administration from the Ground Up
Running the SAS9 Platform in a Metadata Server Environment
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03/2019
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Anja Fischer is a Senior Systems Engineer in the SAS Customer Success Organization at the company's world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. Anja is a native of Heidelberg, Germany, where she started working for SAS in 1999. In her long tenure at SAS, Anja has worked in technical support, education, pre-sales, and post-sales and has written presentations and customer documentation on what she is the most passionate about: SAS administration. In her current role, she develops customized post-sales strategies for a successful software adaption for SAS platform and SAS® Viya® administration, SAS® Grid administration, and SAS® Visual Analytics administration. Anja has a bachelor of computer science and a bachelor of science for nursing. When she is not happily knee-deep in administering, she loves to go on adventures with her dogs, Benji, Gwendolyn and Carlie.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- About This Book
- What Does This Book Cover?
- Is This Book for You?
- What Should You Know about the Best Practices?
- We Want to Hear from You
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Congratulations, You're the SAS Administrator! Now What??
- Why a starter-admin book?
- What the book will and won't cover:
- Chapter 2: Let the Admin Fun begin: SAS 9.4 Architecture
- Introduction
- SAS Configuration Directories
- SAS Client Tier
- Data Tier
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Administration Tools
- Introduction
- The SAS Jedi: SAS Management Console
- SAS Environment Manager
- SAS Deployment Manager
- SAS Web Administration Console
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Do I Know You? A Quick Review on Users, Groups, and Roles in SAS 9.4
- Introduction to User, Group and Role Management
- Users
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Metadata Library Administration in SAS 9.4
- Introduction
- Libraries in Base SAS
- Creating Libraries in SAS Metadata
- Summary
- Chapter 6: SAS 9.4 Metadata Security
- Introduction
- Authorization
- Best Practice: The Golden Rules for Metadata Security Model Design
- Security Testing Options
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Backup and Restore: Should Have, Could Have, Would Have . Famous Last Words
- Introduction
- Backup, Backup and Backup Again
- Backup and Restore Tools
- Summary
- Chapter 8: SAS Administration Tasks and Housekeeping
- This is it - Finish Line in Sight: SAS Administration Tasks and Housekeeping
- Your List of SAS 9.4 Administration Tasks for Starters
- Now What?
- Summary
