## SAS Foundation Services Manager

The SAS Foundation Services Manager plug-in to the SAS Management Console provides capabilities to:

- Create a SAS Foundation Services deployment by defining services and their configurations
  - Create a service deployment group which may be used to selectively deploy services by optionally specifying a group restriction when deploying services
  - Create a service definition
  - Duplicate a SAS Foundation Services deployment
- Export/Import a service deployment
  - Export a SAS Foundation Services deployment to a UTF-* encoded XML file, so that it can be later re-imported into a SAS metadata repository or be used as a source from which a services deployment configuration can be deployed
  - Import a SAS Foundation Services deployment from a UTF-8 encoded XML file into a SAS metadata repository
- Save/Merge a service's configuration
  - Select a SAS Foundation Service that supports this feature and save its configuration data to a UTF-8 encoded XML file
  - Select an XML file containing a SAS Foundation Service's saved configuration data and merge it into a service's configuration.

## Merging Service Configurations

The following services support a capability to merge service configuration data. Refer to each service's documentation for a description of its configuration data and details on data which can be merged.

- Authentication Service
- Event Broker Service
- Information Service
- Logging Service
- User Service
- Session Service