SAS Viya 3.3 Administration: Fundamentals

There is a new version of this course. Please see SAS Viya Administration Essentials.

This course introduces SAS administrators to SAS Viya 3.3. The course provides an overview of the SAS Viya architecture. It also shows you how to perform essential SAS administration functions and monitor the environment using SAS Environment Manager, CAS Server Manager, and the command line interface.

The self-study e-learning includes:

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

Learn how to

• Manage and monitor SAS Viya servers and services.
• Locate and control logging of the 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 the SAS Viya environment.
• Manage data and content that is used in the SAS Viya environment.
• Maintain security on SAS Viya content and functionality.
• Back up your SAS Viya environment.

Who should attend

Linux administrators who support a SAS Viya 3.3 deployment, as well as SAS Visual Analytics 8 administrators

Before taking this course, you should have a working knowledge of Linux operating system commands, such as locating and listing files in a directory, setting permissions on files and directories, editing files, and using sudo. It would be helpful if you understand authentication methods such as LDAP or Active Directory.

This course addresses SAS Visual Analytics software.

Introduction to SAS Viya

• Introduction to the SAS Viya platform.
• SAS Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) architecture.
• Administration tasks.

Servers in SAS Viya

• Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) architecture overview.
• Exploring programming run-time servers.
• Exploring microservices and infrastructure servers.
• Operating SAS Viya servers and services.
• Backup and recovery.

Identity Management

• Introduction to identity management.
• Default users and groups.
• Administrative groups and roles.
• Managing external credentials.

SAS Viya CAS Data Architecture

• Exploring CAS data architecture.
• Exploring CAS memory and data.
• Understanding caslibs.
• CAS authorization.
• Additional data management tasks.

Content Management

• Content management.
• General authorization on objects.
• Administering access to functionality.

Monitoring

• SAS Viya operations infrastructure.
• SAS Viya server logging in SAS Environment Manager.
• SAS Viya servers and SAS Configuration Server logging.
• Microservice and web application logging.

Learning More

• SAS resources.
• Beyond this course.