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 in 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)	System Requirements
e-Learning:	28 hours/180 day license	System Requirements

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.