topic Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines in Administration and Deployment

How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

ghassanzghaib — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:54:20 GMT

Hi,

In the SAS Management Console, under "Server Manager", I have a server configured that has a list of associated machines in a dropdown list.

How can I delete an entry from the list?

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

CarmineVerrell — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:25:30 GMT

Hello, Would you be able to provide more detailed information? Maybe a screenshot would be handy of what you are trying to delete.
Thanks
Carmine

Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

ghassanzghaib — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:29:46 GMT

Hi Carmine,

Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

CarmineVerrell — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:24:34 GMT

Hello,

Please see link on two ways to delete metadata.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2013/02/06/two-methods-for-editing-sas-metadata/

This might not apply in your case but some added info here is a command-line tool to delete metadata.

Delete Objects(sas-delete-objects) in metadata

https://go.documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=bicdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=bisag&docsetTarget=p0zqp8fmgs4o0kn1tt7j8ho829fv.htm&locale=en

Carmine

Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

gwootton — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:09:51 GMT

This SAS code would do it based on the machine name being "test". This uses the METADATA_DELOBJ function. You would need to have set the connection options necessary to connect to Metadata as an Administrator.

Be sure to take an ad-hoc metadata backup prior to running any code that writes to Metadata.

data _null_;
	obj="omsobj:Machine?@Name='test'";
	rc=metadata_delobj(obj);
	put rc=;
run;

Re: How to delete an entry in the list of associated machines

ghassanzghaib — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:13:19 GMT

Hi Greg,

I aknowledged the previous reply as a "Solution" but your post helped me find the object by exploring the metadata right in SAS Base.

Thanks for your help.