topic SAS license renewal in Administration and Deployment

SAS license renewal

nagayamini — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:30:55 GMT

A quick question on the license renewal activity on windows servers, do we need to do this as sas admin? When we try to renew it with our ID, it is showing an error but the setinit.log file is not getting updated. It has the old timestamp so unable to debug further.

Quick response is highly appreciated as we need to do this renewal by coming Monday.

Thanks in advance!

Re: SAS license renewal

sasadmin_2303 — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:35:08 GMT

As per my knowledge, you should always renew licenses using the account that SAS was installed with, which is 'sas' default unless you used an exception. Hope that helps.

Re: SAS license renewal

SASKiwi — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:54:50 GMT

You could try remoting into your SAS server and right click on the renewal program and "Run as Administrator". Your use account still needs enough permissions to allow this.

Re: SAS license renewal

Sajid01 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:07:53 GMT

One must use the SAS installer / SAS Admin account. The SAS installer account owns the folders and files belonging to the SAS installation. A normal user generally does not have necessary permissions on the SAS folders/files. Therefore if one tries to update license as an ordinary user, it may not work.

One possible work around could that the users is a member of the Server Administrators group he can.

Normally a sas user does not have this privilege and may not be able to run anything as an administrator.
There could be exceptions but not a general practice.