When you initialize SAS^® Environment Manager Service Architecture by running the emi_init script, the following error message might be displayed in the console:

Running validator level 2 diagnostics
Starting level 2 validation...
verifyProperties.sas failed with return code [253]
Level 2 validation completed with 1 error(s) in 4840 ms
EMI Framework validation failed lev 2. emiInit cannot continue. Errors are:
    verifyProperties.sas failed with return code [253]
Stopping execution

This same issue might occur when you run other programs that are associated with SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture. For example, you might encounter the following error when you run another program:

This error indicates that there is a problem obtaining the configuration properties for SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture from SAS^® Metadata Server.

The corresponding SAS^® log also contains an error similar to the following for the invoked macro %GETMETACREDS:

ERROR 13-12: Unrecognized SAS option name -.
        NOTE: Line generated by the macro variable "SASMETAHOST".

These problems occur when your host name contains a hyphen. If that is the case for your host name, you can resolve the problem by making the following change to the getmetacred.sas file that resides in the SAS-configuration-directory/Web/SASEnvironmentManager/SASMacros/getmetacreds.sas directory.

In the getmetacred.sas file:

1. Locate the following OPTIONS statement that is on or near line 64:
   
   options metaserver=&sasmetahost metaport=&sasmetaport metauser="&sasmetauser" metapass="&sasmetapwd";
2. Change that line by adding double quotation marks around &SASMETAHOST, as shown below:
   
   options metaserver="&sasmetahost" metaport=&sasmetaport metauser="&sasmetauser" metapass="&sasmetapwd";

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Environment Manager Enablement Kit Server 2.1 is available at: