The SAS Metadata Server might fail to start, generating various error messages. The errors that are generated might include the following:

WARNING: The omaconfig.xml file was not found.  If other errors occur, 
verify that this file exists in the same directory where the server 
was started.

NOTE: The trustedUsers list is not available.

NOTE: The adminUsers list is not available.

      The I/O subsystem has returned error message ' ERROR: Library 
      TMP000 does not exist'.

A temporary libref cannot be assigned to MetadataServer/MetadataRepositories/Foundation.

ERROR: The SAS Metadata Supervisor failed to initialize properly because of the 
       errors noted above. 

ERROR: CLASSFACTORY cannot be instantiated.

The SAS Metadata Server might fail to start for one of the following reasons:

• The current working directory is modified.
• The SASInitialFolder option is set to a value that is invalid for the SAS Metadata Server.
• The current working directory is mounted incorrectly (in UNIX operating environments)

The default configuration for the SAS Metadata Server depends on having the configuration files in the current directory.

• The omaconfig.xml file is, by default, in the SASMain subdirectory for SAS^® 9.1 and in the SASMeta\MetadataServer directory for SAS 9.2 and later releases.
• The default paths that are specified for the repository manager are relative paths to the current directory.
• The default paths that are stored in the repository manager for the repositories are relative to the current directory.

Be careful when you modify the SASInitialFolder option in either SASMain\sasv9.cfg or SASMeta\sasv9.cfg. The default value is the SASMain or the SASMeta subdirectory, which is the value that the SAS Metadata Server requires. If you need to modify the SASInitialFolder value in SASMain\sasv9.cfg or SASMeta\sasv9.cfg, then you also need to add the SASInitialFolder option to the sasv9_MetadataServer.cfg file in SASMain\MetadataServer\ or the sasv9_usermods.cfg file in SASMeta\MetadataServer\. Then assign the SASInitialFolder option a value that is the absolute path to either the SASMain or the SASMeta subdirectory.

If you configure your SAS Metadata Server under UNIX and store your configuration directory on a network-mounted file system, make sure that you properly set the file ownership and file permissions before mounting the file system.

Operating System and Release Information