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SAS Technical Papers » Installation and Enterprise Administration
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| Date | Title | File Size |
| November 2012 | TS-811: Implementing a SAS® 9.3 Enterprise BI Server Deployment in Microsoft Windows Operating Environments (PDF) This paper explains how to install and configure the SAS® Enterprise BI Server using a standard SAS Enterprise BI Server, one machine, JBoss deployment plan. |
1.05 MB |
| July 2010 | TS-803: Implementing a SAS® Metadata Server Configuration for Use with SAS® 9.2 Enterprise Guide® in Microsoft Windows Operating Environments (PDF) This paper provides quick-reference steps to help you install a server that is administered by the SAS® Metadata Repository. This type of server uses a SAS® Metadata Server to define and configure supporting servers, users, and libraries. |
101.6 KB |
| March 2009 | Maximizing the Performance of Your SAS Solution: Case Studies. (PDF) This paper examines some of the advantages and benefits of deploying the platform for SAS Business Analytics in a centrally managed environment. |
2.60 MB |
| March 2009 | SAS IT Intelligence for VMware Infrastructure: Resource Optimization and Cost Recovery (PDF) This paper provides key insights that will allow IT organizations to effectively manage and optimize valuable virtual resources and to track and recover cost across both physical and virtual environments. |
371 KB |
| March 2009 | The Platform for SAS Business Analytics as a Centrally Managed Service (PDF) This paper provides key insights that will allow IT organizations to effectively manage and optimize valuable virtual resources and to track and recover cost across both physical and virtual environments. |
236 KB |
| March 2009 | Using SAS 9.2 Metadata Security Reporting and Auditing Features (PDF) This paper explains the new SAS 9.2 security auditing capabilities built into the SAS Metadata Server and examines how this information might be used. In addition to auditing, security reporting macros are provided. We examine how to use these macros to extract the security settings for metadata objects into data sets that can be used to produce reports. |
239 KB |
| March 2009 | Virtualization: What does it mean for SAS? (PDF) This paper discusses how hardware, presentation, and application virtualization impact running SAS software. It gives some examples of software products used to implement the virtualization solutions, but covers the virtualization topics in a general, product-neutral manner. The focus of the paper is primarily from a Microsoft Windows operating-systems perspective, but the concepts can be applied to other operating systems. |
281 KB |
| March 2009 | z/OS SAS Deployment: This Isn't Your Father's Install Anymore! (PDF) Starting with SAS 9.2, the overall deployment process is now uniform across all host architectures. The purpose of this document is to give you a basic understanding of the new deployment process with an emphasis on deployment to z/OS. |
389 KB |
| December 2008 | Downloading and Installing SAS Foundation 9.2 Phase 1 in the z/OS Operating Environment (PDF) This paper will help you navigate the three stages in the process of installing SAS Foundation 9.2. It starts by helping you identify the stages and where you are in the process. |
914 KB |
| October 2008 | Provisioning Systems and Other Ways to Share the Wealth of SAS Across a Network (PDF) This paper outlines SAS deployment tools’ integration with popular third-party provisioning systems such as Microsoft System Management Server, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, and HP OpenView. We also cover how our installation tools work in concert with these systems during initial deployment as well as maintenance, and why these systems are important to many of you. |
1.01 MB |
| September 2008 | Achieving Better I/O Throughput Using SGIO in the Microsoft Windows Environment (PDF) In the SAS System, SAS I/O. the most common input/output (I/O) processing, is performed on SAS files such as SAS data sets, SAS catalogs, and SAS index files. Most SAS I/O processing is sequential I/O, which means that the DATA step and SAS procedures read a data set from the beginning of the file to the end of the file. |
80.5 KB |
| August 2008 | How to Maintain Happy SAS Users (PDF) Ensuring your SAS applications have the proper computer resources is the best way to keep your SAS users happy. The goal of this paper is to help the administration staff who must support SAS better understand how SAS works and what they should do to support users. |
92.7 KB |
| April 2008 | Best Practices in SAS®9 Security Configuration (PDF) This paper presents several best practice configurations for systems that are based on Windows and systems that are based on other operating systems. These configurations maximize the use of single sign-on technology and minimize the necessity to store and pass system credentials. |
32 KB |
| March 2008 | Deployment for SAS 9.2 and Beyond (PDF) The paper will summarize advancements such as electronic software download, customized orders, silent installations, streamlined dialog boxes, deployment capture/replay, and SAS Software Depot management. |
30 KB |
| March 2008 | Backup and Disaster Recovery: When Disaster Strikes, What Will You Do? What Will You Do? (PDF) This paper covers often-overlooked subtleties in backing up the SAS Metadata Repository, the WebDAV repository, and the associated configuration files, as well as ensures synchronization of the pieces that are required to work together. This discussion will help administrators avoid the common pitfalls and ensure that their site is able to be up and running as soon as possible in the event of small or large disasters. |
99 KB |
| March 2008 | Best Practices for SAS Business Intelligence Administrators: Using the
Configuration Troubleshooter to Keep SAS Solutions and SAS BI Applications (PDF) This paper how to use the Configuration Troubleshooter for maintenance and troubleshooting. Using case studies collected from SAS Technical Support, we will step through the process of problem discovery, investigation, and resolution using this tool. |
325 KB |
| March 2008 | Migrating Your SAS Applications to SAS 9.1.3 and Beyond (PDF) Migrate your mission-critial SAS 8 applications to SAS®9 so that they can work with the full-featured Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and a multitude of analytical solutions that are part of the SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform. |
47 KB |
| March 2008 | Improving Your SAS Investment from the Ground Up: SAS 9.2 Enhancements That Help You Leverage Your Operating Environment (PDF) SAS 9.2 has introduced many enhancements that allow you to better leverage your specific operating environment, whether it be Windows, UNIX, OpenVMS, or z/OS. This presentation will focus on these new features, including the areas of I/O optimization, CPU exploitation, memory usage, output display, and new operating environments. |
42 KB |
| March 2008 | SAS 9.2 Enhanced Logging Facilities (PDF) SAS administrators and Enterprise IT administrators now have the power and flexibility to classify messages according to a well-defined namespace and dynamically enable diagnostic logging levels. SAS programmers can also exploit the enhanced logging features through the use of SAS 4GL language statements. |
340 KB |
| July 2007 | Case Study in Synchronizing Identities in the SAS®9 Metadata Server with an Enterprise Security Provider (PDF) This case study highlights the advantage of importing user and group information from an enterprise security provider, such as the Microsoft Active Directory. SAS provides macros that can be integrated with scheduling and other tools to synchronize SAS metadata repository identities with the enterprise Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) environment. |
33 KB |
| July 2007 | TS-788: What SAS Administrators Should Know about Libraries, Metadata, and SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 (PDF) SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 was released in the spring of 2006. Among the enhancements offered by SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 is better integration with SAS libraries that are defined in metadata. Additional changes were made available in the metadata library engine (META engine). This document provides details about those changes and behaviors, and provides guidance to SAS administrators who would like to see the libraries behave in a certain way. |
164 KB |
| April 2007 | Best Practices for Configuring IO for SAS®9 Applications (PDF) This paper presents best practices for configuring the IO subsystem for your SAS 9 applications, ensuring adequate capacity, bandwidth, and performance to keep your SAS®9 users moving. |
86 KB |
| October 2006 | Backing Up SAS Content In Your SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform (PDF) This document focuses on considerations for developing a content backup strategy for the SAS®9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform — including content from SAS Data Integration Server, SAS Enterprise BI Server, and analytic products such as SAS Enterprise Miner. SAS typically generates operating system files, so standard backup tools can be used to create backups of most content. However, there are considerations that can make your backup process more effective. This paper is not intended to provide a complete backup discussion. |
1,160 KB |
| August 2006 | TS-760: SAS®9 Metadata Security and the DefaultACT (PDF) | 98 KB |
| February 2006 | TS-750: Securing SAS®9 Business Intelligence Content Managed in Metadata (PDF) | 158 KB |
| June 2004 | TS-702: Information regarding the intricacies in the deployment of BI servers on each machine in a multiple platform (operating system) environment (PDF) | 22 KB |
| March 2004 | SAS IT Resource Management Forecasting (PDF) This paper describes how to set up SAS Enterprise Guide and use it to analyze and forecast data that resides in a SAS Performance Database (PDB). Information about the Time Series Forecasting System (TSFS) as another way to interactively analyze time series data is also described. |
1,460 KB |
