This course is a practical course with focus on core administrative tasks such as creating users, folders and libraries. You are also introduced to the concept of metadata and selected servers that are the foundation for all deployments.

Formats available
Classroom, Onsite-Training, Mentoring

Learn how to

• manage users
• manage folders
• manage libraries
• manage backups
• manage metadata security
• manage selected servers
• manage licenses and hotfixes

Who should attend

SAS Administrators, IT Administrators SAS® Visual Analytics Administrators, SAS® Data Management Administrators, SAS® Federation Server Administrators and others.

Formats available	Standard duration
Classroom:	2.0 days

It is beneficial that you are interested in performing administrative tasks related to the SAS platform.

This course addresses SAS Management Console and SAS Environment Manager

This course addresses SAS Management Console software.

Introducing the environment

• Understand the architecture of the SAS Platform
• Understand typical configurations
• Explore selected SAS Applications
• Investigate configuration files, services and logs

Managing users

• Understand the basics of a user and group metadata identity
• Investigate standard service accounts, internal and external users
• Understand the synchronization process between user store (AD) and SAS Metadata Server
• Create users and groups
• Apply roles to groups to allow use of functionality in applications
• Change passwords for service accounts for security compliance

Managing folders

• Understand guidelines for building good folder structures
• Investigate standard folders and their purpose

Managing libraries

• Create a SAS base library
• Create a SAS LASR library for SAS® Visual Analytics
• Create a database library (SQL Server and others)
• Register metadata for tables

Managing backups and metadata promotion

• Understand the backup configuration for full backup and recover
• Create export package with metadata interactively and in batch

Managing metadata security

• Understand metadata security concepts
• Create basic protection

Managing servers

• Investigate the metadata server
• Investigate the workspace server
• Investigate the object spawner

Managing licenses and hotfixes

• Check available hotfixes
• Understand how to update licenses