Standard OLAP Server Metadata

To set up an OLAP server with an IOM Bridge connection, you must create metadata that describes your server configuration. For information about the SAS Application Server and logical server definitions that contain the server definitions, see Planning the Metadata.

To plan a standard OLAP server with an IOM Bridge connection, you must determine the following:

• the number of servers you need. Decide how many servers you need for your implementation.
• the number of logical servers and SAS Application Servers you need. Decide which logical servers and SAS Application Servers will contain your server definitions.

To set up a standard OLAP server with an IOM Bridge connection, plan and set up metadata for the following:

1. Logins. You might need to plan and set up logins for users that connect to the server. The domain of the login definition and the authentication domain of the server definition must match in order to associate the server with the appropriate login credentials.

2. Servers. You must plan and set up the server definitions for servers that you will use to process client requests.

Step 1: Plan and Set Up Logins

You must determine the number of logins that you need to define. For the basic server configuration, determine how many separate logins you need for logins associated with users that request connections to a server. The authentication domain of the server definition must match the domain of the login definition. To understand how to plan for your authentication domain, see Overview of Domains.

To plan each login definition, you must determine the following information:

• the user name of the user metadata identity
• the fully qualified user ID and password
• the authentication domain name.

For detailed information about the fields included in the metadata for a user and login and how to set up SAS users, groups, and logins, see the Defining Users, Groups, and Logins in the Security section.

Step 2: Plan and Set Up Servers

To plan each server, you must determine which SAS Application Server and logical server will contain the server definition. You must also determine the following server parameters:

• server name
• authentication domain
• host name, and service or port for the bridge connection
• type of encryption you will use
• object server parameters, as required
• SAS startup command and options, as required. For details, see Server Startup Command.

For detailed information about the fields included in the metadata for a server, see the Fields for Server Definitions.

For detailed information about using SAS Management Console to set up a new server definition within the appropriate SAS Application Server and logical server, see Using SAS Management Console to Define Servers.