This intensive 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 SAS Platform Administration: Metadata Administration and SAS Platform Administration: System Administration courses are available to provide the same type of information in a more detailed approach over a longer period of time.

This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9.

• 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
• administer the SAS middle tier
• monitor the SAS middle tier with SAS Environment Manager.

Who should attend

Formats available	Standard Duration
Classroom:	4.0 days
Live Web Classroom:	8 half-day session(s)	System Requirements

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 SAS Platform Administration: Getting Started course.

This course addresses SAS Analytics Platform, SAS Management Console, SAS Environment Manager software.

• exploring the platform
• reviewing deployment administration tasks
• reviewing maintenance administration tasks
• reviewing metadata administration tasks
• reviewing ongoing administration tasks

• exploring the platform architecture
• operating SAS servers and spawners
• exploring SAS Environment Manager
• exploring SAS Environment Manager service architecture

• exploring the SAS Metadata Server and metadata repositories
• exploring SAS metadata objects
• implementing a SAS Metadata Server cluster
• backing up the SAS Metadata Server
• backing up the SAS environment

• exploring initial authentication to the SAS Metadata Server
• administering users and groups
• using import macros
• exploring internal accounts and internal authentication mechanisms
• administering roles and administrative identities

• understanding SAS Compute Servers
• exploring credential management
• administering server logging

• reviewing metadata security
• exploring metadata permissions and ACTs
• customizing SAS folders

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

• monitoring a SAS environment with SAS Environment Manager
• reviewing SAS middle-tier architecture
• additional topics about SAS server maintenance

• SAS resources
• beyond this course