topic Re: SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue in Administration and Deployment

SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue

Keerthip — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:47:17 GMT

Hi All,

We have started a fresh planned installation of our SAS 9.4 M5 on multi machine environment,

We have installed metadata 1 & metadata2 (clustered )on different hosts successfully. We are facing issues while installing metadata 3 configuration files on another host.Below is the error. sas account is already on the current host where installation is being started & the filesystem is shared across all the hosts.Any clues what is causing this issue?

validateUserHostAccount:

[propertyfile] Updating property file: /SAS/SASConfig/meta3/Lev1/Logs/Configure/metadatasrvn_config_status.properties

[exec] Current OS is Linux

[exec] Using input "********"

[exec] Executing '/SAS/SASHome/SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin/sasumgmt' with arguments:

[exec] '-stdio'

[exec] '-u'

[exec] 'sas'

[exec]

[exec] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are

[exec] not part of the command.

[exec] NOTE: Access denied.

[exec] Result: 1

[antcall] Exiting /SAS/SASHome/SASFoundation/9.4/misc/base/sasconf/metadatasrv/config/metadatasrv_config.xml.

Re: SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue

boemskats — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:20:06 GMT

I think that the password that the SDW has stored for your SAS user is incorrect, or the account might be locked. Try running this manually on that node after the failure and see what it says:

/SAS/SASHome/SASFoundation/9.4/utilities/bin/sasumgmt -stdio -u sas -v

Nik

Re: SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue

SimonDawson — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:45:44 GMT

During the install of SAS Foundation was pam chosen to be used for user authentication?

If so, is /etc/pam.d/sasauth correctly defined?

You might try use proc permtest to debug the authentication
http://support.sas.com/kb/39/891.html

Re: SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:41:04 GMT

Hello @Keerthip,

did you have the chance to give a look into @boemskats's and @SimonDawson's great pointers? I think they go in the right direction.

Here I would like to drop just a quick addition: after installing the binaries: have you run the Operational Qualification on every metadata node?

https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikinstqualtoolug/66614/PDF/default/qualification_tools_guide.pdf

I wonder if there are differences on your pre-requisite steps or your installation steps. I would recommend to go through them again, it is normally the case.

Re: SAS 9.4 M5 installation issue

Keerthip — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:57:27 GMT

We have setup the sasauth file using the following link:

Installation Note 49432: Configuring PAM on Linux to authenticate through SAS® against Active Directory or LDAP