SPD Server Parameter File Configurations for SAS Metadata Server Authentication

Specifies whether SPD Server should use the SAS Metadata Server to provide user authentication. The back-end authentication provider is whatever the SAS Metadata Server was configured for. NOMETAAUTHENTIC is the default setting.

METAAUTHENTIC ;

When in the default setting of NOMETAAUTHENTIC, an internal account (native to SPD Server) is used for authentication. When METAAUTHENTIC is specified, SAS Metadata Server will provide user authentication via the back-end authentication provider that it was configured to use.

Specifies the name of the host that the SAS Metadata Server is running on.

METASERVER=SAS-Metadata-Server-hostname

Provides the name of the host that the SAS Metadata Server resides on. If SAS Metadata Server authentication is configured, but METASERVER= is not specified, then SPD Server assigns a default value of METASERVER=localhost. An option value of localhost indicates that the SAS Metadata Server is running on the same host as the SPD Server.

Specifies the port number of the SAS Metadata Server.

METAPORT=SAS-Metadata-Server-port-number

Identifies the port number of the SAS Metadata Server. If SAS Metadata Server authentication is configured, but no METAPORT= value is specified, then SPD Server assigns a default value of METAPORT=8561.

Specifies the domain where the back-end authenticator resides.

METADOMAIN=domain-name

The domain name, if needed, for the back-end authenticator used by the SAS Metadata Server. No domain will be used if this option is not specified.

The simplest way to use SAS Metadata Server authentication is to add METAAUTHENTIC to the server parameter file. The value for METASERVER= will default to localhost and the value for METAPORT= will default to 8561. localhost selects the host that SPD Server server runs on.

Both examples below will configure SPD Server to use SAS Metadata Server for authentication:

Either of the options declared above implies METAAUTHENTIC to SPD Server.