About This Document

Audience

This document helps SAS administrators optimize the performance of the web application servers running in the middle-tier environment.
This document is organized as follows:
  • A brief overview of the web applications in the middle tier
  • Information about the types of SAS Web Application Server clusters
  • Tuning information for the following applications and servers:
    • SAS Web Server
    • SAS Web Application Server
    • Supported Operating Systems

Requirements

This guide contains tasks that are tested and proven. SAS recommends that you properly test all planned configurations in a testing environment before applying them to a production environment. You should also back up all your data and pre-tuning configurations.