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How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

sriramsahani — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:37:17 GMT

Hello,

How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ? How the file omaconfig.xml file is called ?

As in Linux, to start metadata server we start the MetadataServer.sh script . MetadataServer script points to SASMeta/MetadataServer/sasv9.cfg file which again points to SASFoundation/sasv9.cfg file and it points to SASFoundation/nls/en/sasv9.cfg. Where the omaconfig.xml file is mentioned and how it is being called ?

Regards,

Sriram Sahani

Re: How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

alexal — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:53:29 GMT

@sriramsahani,

The filename omaconfig.xml is hardcoded. That file will be opened during startup of the metadata server using proprietary code.

Re: How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

sriramsahani — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:17:55 GMT

Hi,

Thanks Alex for the reply. I want to know what is that particular code name and the location where the omaconfig.xml file is called .

Could you please clarify on that ?

Regards,

Sriram Sahani

Re: How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:20:42 GMT

@sriramsahani wrote:

Hi,

Thanks Alex for the reply. I want to know what is that particular code name and the location where the omaconfig.xml file is called .

Could you please clarify on that ?

Regards,

Sriram Sahani

It's in the compiled machine code of the SAS executable, so nowhere where you can access it without violating the SAS license (which forbids re-engineering).

Re: How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:31:33 GMT

Exactly as @alexal and @Kurt_Bremser advised:

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=bisag&docsetTarget=n070fn7r6yuz53n19c7l80f3hr1g.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

our omaconfig.xml file might include an option that activates a SAS Metadata Server or repository manager feature that is needed by a particular SAS application. When this is the case, do not remove the option or change its setting unless you are instructed to do so by SAS Technical Support.

Re: How Metadata server reads information from omaconfig.xml file at startup ?

sriramsahani — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:26:26 GMT

Thanks all for your prompt replies 🙂 Really appreciate it !