There is a new version of this course. Please see SAS Viya Administration Fast Track.

This course is a four-day immersion into a SAS Viya environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager, the command-line interface, and basic Kubernetes commands to administer a SAS Viya Environment.

The self-study e-learning includes:

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

Learn how to

• Start and stop SAS Viya servers and services.
• Manage users and groups in the SAS Viya environment.
• Integrate with an external identity management server.
• Manage credential domains in SAS Viya.
• Manage data and content that are used in the SAS Viya environment.
• Maintain security on SAS Viya content and functionality.
• Back up your SAS Viya environment.
• Perform the basic steps to update a SAS Viya deployment.
• Administer programming run-time servers.
• Administer the CAS server.
• Create and manage caslibs.
• Access data in external databases.
• Automate the refresh of data from a caslib.
• Manage SAS Viya content.
• Troubleshoot general authorization issues.
• Get started using SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes.
• Use basic Kubernetes commands to administer a SAS Viya environment.

Who should attend

Administrators who support a SAS Viya environment

Formats available	Standard Duration (duration can vary, see event schedule for details)
Live Web Classroom:	8 half-day session(s)	System Requirements

Before taking this course, you should have completed the SAS9 Administration: Getting Started course or have a working knowledge of Linux operating system commands (or both). A working knowledge of Kubernetes is helpful but not required.This course addresses SAS Viya software.

This course addresses SAS Viya software.

Introduction to SAS Viya

• SAS Viya architecture.
• Operating SAS Viya servers and services.
• Administration tasks.

SAS Viya Operations

• Deploying and installing SAS Viya.
• Updating SAS Viya.
• Kubernetes.
• Backup and recovery.
• Operating SAS Viya servers and services.

Identity Management

• Identity management.
• Exploring Administrative groups and roles.
• Authentication.

Data and Caslib Management

• CAS data loading.
• Caslib management.
• Managing data and formats.
• CAS Table State Management.

Security

• Access to content and functionality.
• CAS authorization.
• General authorization system.

Monitoring

• Monitoring.
• Prometheus.
• Grafana.

Logging

• Logging.
• EFK stack.