This is a four-day immersion into SAS 9.4 administration for students needing an in-depth introduction or a refresher on managing a SAS 9.4 environment. The self-study e-learning includes:

• Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
• Virtual lab time to practice.

• Navigate the SAS 9.4 architecture.
• Start, stop, and check the status of SAS 9.4 servers and services.
• Configure server logging to assist with monitoring and debugging.
• Manage users and groups on the SAS Metadata Server.
• Secure metadata content.
• Manage access to SAS client functionality.
• Set up access to data for processing and analysis.
• Monitor your environment with SAS Environment Manager.

Who should attend

Formats available	Standard duration
Classroom:	4 days
Live Web Classroom:	8 half-day session(s)
e-Learning:	28 hours/180 day license

Before attending this course, it is helpful, but not required that you have experience with SAS 9.4. This experience is gained by completing the SAS9 Administration: Getting Started course.

This course addresses SAS Analytics Platform, SAS Management Console, SAS Environment Manager for SAS 9.4 software.

• Introduction to SAS 9.4 administration.
• Administration tasks.
• Exploring administration tools.

• Exploring the SAS 9 architecture.
• Operating SAS servers and spawners.
• Exploring SAS Environment Manager.

• Exploring the SAS Metadata Server and metadata repositories.
• Backing up the SAS Metadata Server.
• Backing up the SAS environment.
• Applying hot fixes.

• Exploring initial authentication to the SAS Metadata Server.
• Administering users and groups.
• Exploring internal accounts, roles, and administrative identities.

• Understanding SAS Compute Servers.
• Exploring credential management.
• Administering server logging.

• Reviewing metadata security.
• Exploring ACTs and metadata permissions.
• Customizing SAS folders.

• Registering libraries and tables in metadata.
• Setting up data access.

• Monitoring a SAS environment with SAS Environment Manager.
• Troubleshooting a SAS environment.
• Maintenance and ongoing administration tasks.

• Metadata server clustering.
• Monitoring resources: the Analyze pages.
• SAS import macros.