The SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console
is a Web application that is used by system administrators to manage
high-performance computing environments that use SAS software. Maintaining
high-performance computing (HPC) environments is challenging because
of the large number of machines that are used in the distributed computing
environment. In order to ensure peak performance and reliability,
whatever action is taken on one machine must be performed on all the
machines. Tasks that might be simple on a single machine, such as
adding a user or changing a system configuration option, become more
challenging in a distributed computing environment. Most changes must
be propagated to the other machines and this can be labor intensive
and time consuming. The console is used to ease the administration
of the environment.
The console includes
its own embedded Web server, When administrators log on to the console,
where authentication occurs is determined by the user name provided.
If the user name matches an operating system user account, then the
operating system performs authentication. If the user name does not
match an operating system user account, then the console performs
authentication. In either case, the console does not perform any interaction
with the SAS Metadata Server.