Benefits of the Management Console

Passwordless SSH is required to start and stop SAS LASR Analytic Servers and to load tables. For some SAS solutions, such as SAS High-Performance Risk and SAS High-Performance Analytics Server, passwordless SSH is required to run jobs on the machines in the cluster.

Also, users of some SAS solutions must have an operating system (external) account on all the machines in the cluster and their keys must be distributed across the cluster. For more information, see Create the First User Account and Propagate the SSH Key.

SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console enables you to perform these tasks from one location. When you create new user accounts using SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console, the console propagates the public key across all the machines in the cluster in a single operation. For more information, see the SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console: User’s Guide.