Introduction to the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

About the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

The SAS Intelligence Platform is a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, managing, and distributing enterprise intelligence. The SAS Intelligence Platform comprises four software offerings:

SAS BI Server
SAS Enterprise BI Server
SAS Data Integration Server
SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server

Solutions for enterprise intelligence, customer intelligence, and financial intelligence are built on the SAS Intelligence Platform, as well as turnkey solutions for specialized markets in life sciences, health care, retail, manufacturing, and others. Therefore, if your SAS deployment plan includes a SAS solution, then the SAS Intelligence Platform documentation also pertains to you.

This guide covers administrative tasks that you will need to perform on an ongoing basis after the initial installation and configuration of the SAS Intelligence Platform. The guide covers tasks that apply to the SAS Intelligence Platform as a whole, including the following:

starting and stopping servers
checking the status of servers
monitoring server activity
administering server logging
administering the SAS Metadata Server, including the following tasks:
- performing backups and restores
- monitoring the server
- optimizing the server's performance
administering SAS Metadata Repositories and metadata content, including the following tasks:
- creating repositories
- working with SAS Folders
- importing, exporting, and copying metadata
- promoting metadata and related content
modifying your configuration

The appendixes of this guide provide reference information about log files, configuration files, and default ports.

This guide is one of several documents that SAS publishes to support administration of the SAS Intelligence Platform. Additional guides are available to cover the following administration topics:

SAS Application Server administration
data administration
security administration
Web application administration
desktop application administration
scheduling
logging

To access these documents, go to http://support.sas.com/92administration.

Additional information for specific operating systems is available in the SAS companion guides.

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