Overview of the SAS Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide (LDAP Version)

This is the LDAP version of the Administrator's Guide for SAS Integration Technologies. It is provided for Integration Technologies customers who store metadata for SAS applications on a directory server that is compliant with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), as well as customers who use flat configuration files in the LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) format.

Note: Some new features of SAS 9 require the use of the SAS Open Metadata Architecture instead of LDAP. For details, refer to the SAS Integration Technologies Technical Overview.

This guide provides detailed instructions for all of the administrative tasks that are required for an Integration Technologies implementation. If you are using an LDAP server to store your metadata, you can perform most of these tasks using the Integration Technologies (IT) Administrator application. IT Administrator is a graphical user interface that allows you to easily enter and modify metadata on your LDAP server for SAS applications.

Before you begin performing Integration Technologies administration tasks, refer to the Getting Started chapter for important introductory information and guidelines. The Getting Started chapter provides

• a summary of the administrative steps involved in an Integration Technologies implementation

• basic instructions for using IT Administrator

• a summary of the steps for setting up an LDAP server

• guidelines for determining which communications protocol your Integrated Object Model (IOM) server should use: the Windows Component Object Model (COM) or the Integration Technologies IOM Bridge protocol

• a description of the use of logical names to group server resources

• a description of the use of connection pooling to conserve server resources.

Then refer to the other chapters in the Administrator's Guide for detailed documentation of each administrative task, including

• setting up and starting an IOM server using COM/DCOM

• setting up and starting an IOM Bridge server and spawner

• administering the metadata that is needed to implement the Integration Technologies Publishing Framework and stored processes

• administering SAS data sources that are to be accessed by IOM servers

• administering security settings for resources associated with IOM servers.

Use this Administrator's Guide in conjunction with the Developer's Guide, which provides details about using Integration Technologies to develop and integrate applications.