SAS Viya Administration: Fast Track (3.5)

This course is a four-day immersion into a SAS Viya 3.5 environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya 3.5 administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager, the command-line interface, and REST APIs.

The self-study e-learning includes:

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

Learn how to

• Integrate SAS Viya with SAS 9.4.
• Start and stop SAS Viya servers and services.
• Manage users and groups in the SAS Viya environment.
• Integrate with an identity management server such as LDAP or Active Directory.
• 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.
• Promote content from both SAS 9.4 and prior releases of SAS Viya to SAS Viya 3.5.
• Update a SAS Viya deployment.
• Set up and use APIs to interface with the SAS Viya environment.
• 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.
• Make user-defined formats available to the CAS server.
• Promote content from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 3.5.
• Manage SAS Viya content.
• Troubleshoot general authorization issues.
• Monitor the SAS Viya environment in SAS Environment Manager.
• Monitor a SAS Viya deployment using command-line interfaces such as the sas-ops command.
• Manage the operations infrastructure data mart.
• Create custom reports from the operations infrastructure data.
• Modify logging levels in SAS Environment Manager.
• Diagnose server and service problems using logs.

Who should attend

Administrators who support a SAS Viya 3.5 environment

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

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 LDAP or Active Directory is helpful but not required.

This course addresses SAS Viya software.

Introduction to SAS Viya

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

Administration Tasks

• Accessing CAS from SAS 9.4.
• Backup and recovery.

User Management Tasks

• Identity management.
• Exploring users and groups.
• Authentication.

Data and Security Tasks

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

Managing the CAS Server and Data

• Reviewing CAS data architecture.
• CAS table state management.
• Managing data and formats.
• Managing access to data.
• CAS server monitoring.

Monitoring and Logging

• SAS Viya operations infrastructure.
• Exploring system and audit reports.
• SAS Viya server logging.
• Problem diagnosis process using logs.

Managing Content in SAS Viya

• Sharing content.
• Promotion.
• Formats.
• Troubleshooting authorization.