Managing Computing Resources with a Name Server

The SPD Server name server gives system administrators the ability to manage computing resources without disturbing system users. The SPD Server name server maps logical names that are referenced in SAS programs to the physical location of SPD Server tables. Thus, a name server allows the system administrator to add, remove or reallocate disk space and computing power without having to change SAS source code. Nor is there the necessity of informing others about changes in resource allocation as long the name of the machine that hosts the name service remains the same.
The following example demonstrates how to configure SPD Server to spread the processing load across multiple machines in a network.