What's New in Application Server Administration for the SAS 9.3 Intelligence Platform

A new Object Spawner command option (-lbaddtocluster) enables you to add a new host to an existing load balancing peer object without requiring a peer refresh. This feature is required for cloud computing and software as a service models.

In addition to the stored process server, the workspace server and pooled workspace server now support running SAS code at server session start up and shutdown. For more information, see Run SAS Code at Server Session Boundaries.

In SAS 9.3, the IOM servers also support running SAS code at server start up and shutdown. For more information, see INITSTMT= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference and TERMSTMT= System Option in SAS System Options: Reference.

Single sign-on support based on Kerberos has been added for SAS servers running on UNIX. For more information, see SSPI System Option.

The object spawner supports the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance mode that is provided by SAS/SECURE software in its implementation of the FIPS 140-2 specification. For more information, see -encryptfips.

Server load balancing generates its own credentials internally in SAS 9.3. Logical server credentials are no longer needed. For more information, see Understanding Server Load Balancing.

The load-balancing grid algorithm is now supported for the OLAP, stored process, and pooled workspace servers. For more information, see Choose a Load-Balancing Algorithm.

In SAS 9.3, when you refresh the object spawner, the spawner now quiesces any servers that it has started. The servers shut down when their clients have completed their work. For more information, see Refresh the Object Spawner.

There is a new SAS 9.3 procedure, PROC IOMOPERATE. It administers SAS servers that support the SAS IOM infrastructure. For more information IOMOPERATE Procedure.