Administering the SAS Workspace Manager

For the SAS Workspace Manager, administration tasks include creating and saving LoginDefs, ServerDefs, and LogicalNameDefs. There are several alternatives for the administration of definitions. Definitions can be administrated directly through the IWorkspaceManager interfaces. These interfaces can write to LDAP and files. Note that the WorkspaceManager will only read/write those attributes that are of interest to it. If you are using files, any existing definitions or attributes that are not used by the Workspace Manager will be deleted, so caution should be used. Additional attributes that are defined for these objects are ignored.

Administration can also be performed on LDAP using a generic LDAP modification tool, such as LDIFDE (included with Windows 2000) or ldapadd and ldapmodify (included with the UMich slapd distribution.)  LDIF files can also be imported to LDAP.

A text editor is used to modify the LDIF files.

Most (if not all) administration should be done using the SAS Integration Technologies Administrator, which consolidates the administration chores of the SAS Workspace Manager, the SAS Spawner, and SAS Publish/Subscribe technologies.

Note that it is not necessary to perform any administration at all. Definitions can be created, used, then discarded without ever being persisted.