Introducing SAS Metadata Server

SAS Federation Server Functionality as Metadata

About SAS Metadata Server

Administration

Administration for SAS Metadata Server is performed using SAS Management Console. While the SAS Metadata Server is running and online, you can use SAS Management Console to connect to the SAS Metadata Server and view and manage the objects that are stored in the server's metadata repositories.

Server Backups

SAS Metadata Server is configured to perform unassisted server backups every day of the week except on Sunday. On Sunday, backup is performed for all servers in the deployment. Backups are retained for seven days in the following directory: SAS-configuration-directory/Lev1/SASMeta/MetadataServer/Backups. The metadata server is configured to send an alert email message to the assigned administrator in the event of a system, backup, or recovery failure. To learn about the metadata server backup facility, see "Backing Up the SAS Metadata Server" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.

SAS Federation Server Functionality as Metadata

SAS Metadata Server replaces DataFlux Authentication Server as the authentication provider for SAS Federation Server. Additionally, some of the objects and configurations that were created in DataFlux Authentication Server or SAS Federation Server are now created in SAS Metadata Server:

System User: A SAS Federation Server System User is created at installation as sasfedadm. This account is a member of the SAS Federation Server Administrators group.
Trusted User: Referred to as ‘the SAS Trusted User’, the sastrust account is created during installation or upgrade. This account replaces the trusted user that was created in DataFlux Authentication Server.
Administrator: SAS Federation Server administrator accounts are facilitated in SAS Metadata Server by granting membership to the SAS Federation Server Administrators group, for selected accounts.
Shared login: The shared login account that was formerly created in DataFlux Authentication Server, is now created as a shared login group in SAS Metadata Server.
Federation server object: A federation server object is created during installation and appears as a server object in SAS Management Console. The federation server object is no longer defined in SAS Federation Server Manager.

See the SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions for information about creating users and groups for SAS Metadata Server: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/mcsecug.

Additional configuration options were added to facilitate the use of SAS Metadata Server in the SAS Federation Server environment:

The use of metaprofile to configure the SAS Federation Server environment. This replaces the port and host configuration used in previous versions of SAS Federation Server.
Metauser and Metapass to specify credentials to connect to SAS Federation Server.

See the Configuration Reference for additional information about these configuration options.

Last updated: March 6, 2018