This intensive training course provides accelerated learning for those students who will administer the platform for SAS Business Analytics. This course is for individuals who are comfortable with learning large amounts of information in a short period of time. The &spam and &spas courses are available to provide the same type of information in a more detailed approach over a longer period of time. The last part of this course teaches how to administer SAS Visual Analytics environment deployed on Linux.

Learn how to

• administer the SAS environment
• identify and report about the state of the SAS environment
• back up the SAS environment
• monitor and log SAS servers
• administer client applications
• administer users
• administer data access
• recognize and establish various security techniques
• secure data and other shared content
• troubleshoot metadata security
• move and promote metadata.
• describe the SAS Visual Analytics architecture and technology
• manage users, groups, and roles for SAS Visual Analytics
• administer SAS Visual Analytics, libraries, data, servers, users, and security
• administer both a distributed and non-distributed environment deployed on Linux.

Who should attend

SAS Platform Administrators and Administrators who need to learn how to administer a SAS Visual Analytics environment deployed on Linux

Formats available	Standard duration
Classroom:	5 days

Before attending this course, it is useful but not required to have experience with the Platform for SAS Business Analytics. You can gain this experience by attending the &ygs2 course. Exposure to SAS Visual Analytics is helpful but not required. You can gain exposure to SAS Visual Analytics by attending the &yvag course.

This course addresses SAS Analytics Platform, SAS Management Console, SAS Visual Analytics software.

Reviewing the Platform for SAS Business Analytics

• exploring the platform for SAS Business Analytics overview
• exploring the platform sdministrator role
• securing the SAS configuration
• establishing a formal, regularly scheduled backup

Administering the SAS Metadata Server

• exploring the SAS metadata server
• exploring SAS metadata objects
• exploring metadata repositories
• implementing a SAS metadata server cluster
• backing up SAS metadata

Adding Users and Managing Access

• planning metadata security
• registering users and groups
• exploring metadata permissions
• securing metadata

Managing SAS Servers and Spawners

• operating SAS servers and spawners
• exploring authentication models
• administering server logging

Establishing Connectivity to Data Sources

• registering libraries and tables in metadata
• setting up data access

Exploring Ongoing Administration Tasks

• ongoing tasks for SAS administrators
• ongoing tasks for system administrators

Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics

• exploring SAS Visual Analytics concepts
• using the SAS Visual Analytics home page
• defining SAS Administration tasks

SAS Visual Analytics Architecture and Technology

• SAS Visual Analytics deployment overview
• exploring the server tier and middle tier
• exploring SAS LASR Analytic server and HDFS
• managing SAS LASR Analytic servers

SAS Visual Analytics Administration

• managing external accounts
• managing SAS Visual Analytics users, groups, and roles
• managing folders using SAS Management Console

Managing Data Using SAS Visual Analytics Administrator

• loading registered data tables
• SAS Visual Analytics LASR libraries
• loading data to a Hadoop (HDFS)
• self-service imports
• convenience features for loading data
• SAS Visual Analytics data preparation

SAS Visual Analytics Authentication and Authorization

• managing SAS Visual Analytics authentication
• managing application security and authorization
• managing mobile devices
• managing alerts
• reports for administrators