Assigning Libraries

Verifying Pre-assignments by Reviewing the Logs

After you specify that a library is to be pre-assigned by the server, the SAS server process will start as follows:

Connect to the metadata server.
Retrieve library metadata.
Assign the library using the engine specified in the library metadata.

For example, if the Orion Gold Customers library is pre-assigned to the workspace server, then the library assignment would be equivalent to a SAS programmer submitting a LIBNAME statement such as the following:

 LIBNAME ORGOLD BASE "D:\OrionStar\Gold";

In the case of an IOM server, such as the workspace server, you can verify the pre-assignment of this library by the server process by enabling logging and observing the note generated from the first GetMetadata method call in the server's log, as in the following sample log:

Verification of Pre-assignment in a Server Log

[Verification of Pre-assignment in a Server Log]

For non-IOM servers using the METAAUTORESOURCES option, a note like the following is written to its log file:

NOTE: Libref ORGOLD successfully assigned from logical server.

For information about enabling the logging, see "Capture XML Information in the SAS Metadata Server Log" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide. To verify pre-assignment, set the logging level to 1.

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