About the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

The SAS Intelligence Platform is a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, managing, and distributing enterprise intelligence. The SAS Intelligence Platform comprises four software offerings:
  • SAS BI Server
  • SAS Enterprise BI Server
  • SAS Data Integration Server
  • SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server
Building on the technologies in the SAS Intelligence Platform, SAS offers solutions for industries such as financial services, life sciences, health care, retail, and manufacturing, as well as line-of-business solutions in areas such as customer management, enterprise risk management, and financial management. Therefore, if your SAS deployment plan includes a SAS solution, then the SAS Intelligence Platform documentation also pertains to you.
This guide covers administrative tasks that you will need to perform on an ongoing basis after the initial installation and configuration of the SAS Intelligence Platform. The guide covers tasks that apply to the SAS Intelligence Platform as a whole, including the following:
  • starting and stopping servers
  • checking the status of servers
  • monitoring server activity
  • administering server logging
  • administering the SAS Metadata Server, including the following tasks:
    • performing backups and restores
    • monitoring the server
    • optimizing the server's performance
  • administering SAS Metadata Repositories and metadata content, including the following tasks:
    • creating repositories
    • analyzing and repairing metadata
    • working with SAS Folders
    • promoting metadata and related physical content
The appendixes of this guide provide reference information about log files, configuration files, and default ports. They also provide information about utilities that you can use to modify host name references and to migrate content to another SAS 9.3 deployment.
This guide is one of several documents that SAS publishes to support administration of the SAS Intelligence Platform. Additional guides are available to cover the following administration topics:
  • SAS Application Server administration
  • data administration
  • security administration
  • middle-tier administration
  • Web application administration
  • desktop application administration
  • scheduling
  • logging
To access these documents, go to http://support.sas.com/93administration.
Additional information for specific operating systems is available in the SAS companion guides.