Accessing SAS Business Data Network :: SAS(R) Business Data Network 3.1: User's Guide

Overview

You can access SAS Business Data Network in the following ways:

Use a Standard URL
Connect from the Web Search Tool
Connect from SAS Data Management Console

Use a Standard URL

You might have been given a standard URL to use to log on to SAS Business Data Network. This URL follows this pattern: http://hostname/SASBusinessDataNetwork. However, the administrator can change the URL during installation.

To access SAS Business Data Network using a standard URL:

Click the URL that is supplied by your system administrator, or paste it into the address field of your browser.

The Sign In window for SAS web applications is shown in the following display:

Sign In Window for SAS Web Applications
Enter your user ID and password in the appropriate fields.

Note: Your password is case-sensitive. Your user ID might be case-sensitive, depending on the operating system that is used to host the web application server. If you need assistance, contact your system administrator.
Click Sign In to access the SAS Lineage in a browser window.
To sign off, click Sign Off in the upper right corner of the window. If you are prompted about unsaved changes, click Sign Off to exit without saving, or click Continue to keep working.

Connect from the Web Search Tool

The Web Search Tool is a separate web page that contains a field that you can use to search for terms in SAS Business Data Network. You can click a term listed in the search results to display it in SAS Business Data Network.

If you have already logged on to one of the SAS applications, you will be taken directly to SAS Business Data Network. If you have not logged on to a SAS application, you will see the Sign In window explained in Use a Standard URL. Follow the same steps to log on to SAS Business Data Network.

Connect from SAS Data Management Console

Another way to access SAS Business Data Network is to use the standard sign-in window to access the SAS Data Management Console home page. Then you can click the link in the Links section to access the SAS Business Data Network window. If a link to SAS Business Data Network is not displayed in the Links section, ask your administrator to follow the instructions in Adding Links to the SAS Data Management Console Home Page.

The port for all SAS Data Management web components is configured during installation. The default port number is 80. If your site is using the default port for these web components, you can access SAS Data Management Console from the following URL: http://hostname/SASDataManagement.

To log on to SAS Data Management Console:

Click the URL that is supplied by your system administrator, or paste it into the address field of your browser to display the SAS log on window.

The window is shown in the following display:

Log On Window for SAS Data Management Console
In the User ID field, enter your user ID
In the Password field, enter the password for your user ID.

Note: Your password is case-sensitive. Your user ID might be case-sensitive, depending on the operating system that is used to host the web application server. If you need assistance, contact your system administrator.
Click Log On to display the home page for SAS Data Management Console.