Best Practices: Server and Spawner Setup

• SAS Workspace Server

  1. Configure a spawner and SAS Workspace Server.

  2. Start the workspace server as follows:

     • On Windows platforms, install the spawner as a service in order to listen for connection requests for the workspace server.

     • On UNIX, VMS, and z/OS platforms, start the spawner in order to listen for connection requests for the workspace server.

• Load-Balancing Stored Process Server

  1. Configure a spawner and SAS Stored Process Server.

     Note: In order for the SAS Stored Process Server to run as a multi-user server, the spawner must have credentials to use when launching the server as a multi-user process. Therefore, in the server definition, you must specify a multi-user login to use when launching a multi-user stored process server. If you do not specify a multi-user login for the stored process server, the stored process server will not run and a message similar to the following will be displayed:

     This server (OMSOBJ:LOGICALSERVER/A5SRQ5Z5.AT00008E)
     cannot be spawned without credentials which specify
     the server process username.

  2. Set up load balancing for the stored process logical server, spawner, and stored process server definitions.

  3. Create MultiBridge connections for each stored process server definition.

  4. Start the stored process server as follows:

     • On Windows platforms, install the spawner as a service in order to listen for connection requests for the stored process server.

     • On UNIX, VMS, and z/OS platforms, start the spawner in order to listen for connection requests for the stored process server.

• OLAP server

  1. Configure a SAS OLAP server.

  2. Start the OLAP server as follows:

     • On Windows platforms, configure and start the SAS OLAP Server as a service.

     • On UNIX and z/OS platforms, start the OLAP server with a SAS server startup command.

• SAS Metadata server

  1. Configure a SAS Metadata Server.

  2. Start the metadata server as follows:

     • On Windows platforms, configure and start the SAS Metadata Server as a service.

     • On UNIX and z/OS platforms, start the SAS Metadata Server with a SAS server startup command.

For details about configuring and starting the preceding servers, see Summary of Setup Steps. To quickly configure a SAS Workspace Server and spawner and test the connection, see Quick Start: Standard Workspace Server and Spawner. To configure a SAS Stored Process Server and spawner and test the connection, see Quick Start: Load-Balancing Stored Process Server and Spawner.