Tips for Configuring and Administering SAS IT Resource Management

Customizations have been made to the application server configuration (sasv9.cfg) and autoexec (appserver_autoexec.sas) files for SAS IT Resource Management. If you need to make additional customizations for site-specific reasons, you should instead modify sasv9_usermods.cfg or appserver_autoexec_usermods.sas.

The metadata repository for SAS IT Resource Management can become very large, and the SAS Metadata Server also requires substantial memory. Install the physical repository on the fastest media available. Allocate the SAS Metadata Server as much memory as possible.

Starting and stopping the servers can require several minutes.

Occasionally, when starting the Object Spawner immediately after starting the SAS Metadata Server, the Object Spawner will fail because it is attempting to contact the SAS Metadata Server. To avoid this situation when automating start-up and shutdown procedures, put sleep or delaying steps into the scripts. This action allows the SAS Metadata Server to fully initialize before the Object Spawner attempts to contact it.